Hexbear: Wow kids want fake in game currency to get cosmetics for a game they won’t even play in a few years? This is bad and sad.
Me, an intellectual: Wow kids can get the gift they want, get excited about it for 5 minutes, and then throw it away anyway without making plastic waste and filling a landfill? Sounds great sign me up.
I’m fairly sure almost nobody in this thread has kids or knows kids or remembers the dumb shit they wanted, got, and immediately forgot about in a closet until it got thrown away many years later
Me personally I think this is sad because it further cements how little children actually exist in the real world anymore
i mean, yes. i don’t think the argument is really “this specific kind of consumerism bad but other consumerism good”, and more that it’s really fucking awful consumerism is forced onto kids this much in the games they play
I get it, I wanted stupid shit as a kid, but this stuff still sucks no matter how you slice it. It’s a different kind of waste and it encourages immediate gratification
It’s really not that different from giving them gift cards. Hell I think I got Wii points one year lol
I got a stack of Wii points that I never even spent
That was me one year with a subscription to xbox live and a headset some wealthy family members gave me. I still have the gift card encased in plastic lol
So many people have been conditioned to create as much microplastic as possible. Be it Christmas nostalgia or the physical media radicals who can’t get their heads around piracy.
If I could use the CEO of Roblox’s head as a mead stein, I’d be very happy
If I had kids, they’d get the
action figureBeanis Funko Pop?
An Amiibeanis?
Me, fifteen or however many years ago: lmao paying real money for imaginary items in a bideo game? how dumb do they think we are
I remember horse armour being clowned on by damn near everyone, now every game is just a horse armour store with a vestigial game tacked on almost as an afterthought
*every triple-A and f2p game
Todd Howard and the ramifications of his existence
fucking grim
that’s like bad economics even if you’re not anti-capitalist, like… buying in-game currency instead of… like… physical toys, physical devices, and other stuff you can physically use and get…? Like, for example, if you don’t play that gacha game you spent 100$ on, you… kinda wasted 'em, while your PSP from years back can probably still run if it hasn’t died yet
it’s a worse idea than company scrip lol
at least those were physical and could be traded to other peopleYou could also sell the PSP later, or gift it to a sibling, etc
This is all a bunch of pointless ones and zeroes that exist solely on a company’s servers somewhere and they can delete all of it on a whim
Hell you can mod the PSP and get way more functionality and use out of it than you would’ve legally
Robux are a more stable currency than Tether
Gaming culture (and by extension capitalism) and it’s results
this is very sad and depressing
I hate you Mom! I wanted SLOPcoin not SLURPcoin!!!
Honestly, if I was given $40 worth of v-bucks for christmas, I would be thrilled
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