• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 hours ago

      They unironically were.

      Epstein is on record talking with Bobby Kotick about pushing microtransactions on kids, like, over a decade ago.

      https://www.aftribune.com/entertainment/epstein-files-expose-how-jeffrey-epstein-pushed-microtransactions-in-video-games/

      To my knowledge, no former or current Valve employee was involved in any such discussions with Epstein…

      … but yeah.

      Lootboxes absolutely are in the Epstein files, he was all for ‘indoctrinating kids into a digital economy.’

      You may be too young to have experienced the before times, but MTX used to not exist, not be a thing.

      You’d go to a store and buy an expansion pack to a game, whole bunch of new content and often new game mechanics, for maybe 1/2 to 1/3 the pricd of the original game.

      Or, later, you’d just buy that online.

      No digital fake currencies, no paying for a single game item, no battle passes.

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      A .world user who is simultaneously against corporate regulations and for protecting pedophiles. Note my lack of shock.