>people are speculating on microtransaction itemsI go to the Steam market out of curiosity. I never bought a single digital hat or trading card and I find the same exact interface as you'd see on exchanges and markets.I don't think free market prin

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Anonymous 03/07/18 (Wed) 21:44:00 c9f019 No.2856

>people are speculating on microtransaction items

I go to the Steam market out of curiosity. I never bought a single digital hat or trading card and I find the same exact interface as you'd see on exchanges and markets.

I don't think free market principles will ever fix the issue of microtransactions, or rather, it's a completely different market from video games entirely. You don't even need to buy a game, to buy a microtransaction for that game. People aren't buying it because of the merits of the item either; they just want to resell it higher to the next speculator.

What do you guys think?

You can't even call this a microtransaction anymore.

I couldn't even believe it when I saw it.

Anonymous 03/07/18 (Wed) 23:57:18 eecc9a No.2865

I'm not sure if you can truly have a free market if there's limited freedom of choice e.g need to buy a console to play a game, etc.

It's mainly why the argument by analogies don't work well on /v/ because restaurants, physical goods, don't have the same type of dependencies as software/technology does.

Anonymous 03/08/18 (Thu) 03:54:28 f2677d No.2866

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>>2856

welcome to the future

now watch as reality morphs into a sam hyde sketch

Anonymous 03/10/18 (Sat) 10:08:14 000000 No.2874

>limited freedom of choice e.g need to buy a console to play a game, etc.

>you don't like DRM

>if you buy game with DRM it means you are OK with DRM

>if you do not buy game with DRM it means you are a filthy pirate and there needs to be more DRM to protect the game

Anonymous 03/12/18 (Mon) 02:24:00 a04561 No.2881

So.

Kind of like modern art selling for thousands of dollars despite being a white canvas, but you don't get an expensive canvas as a consolation prize.

Anonymous 03/12/18 (Mon) 05:28:29 eecc9a No.2884

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>when you have a microtransactions that cost more than the actual game

This actually reminds me of the time when Diablo III came out, and there's people who bought the game thinking they can make money by playing and selling items, except that's equipment not cosmetics, on the RMAH.

I don't know if that's the case for PUBG. This was sort of the game that was insanely popular, but I barely heard anything about.

Anonymous 03/12/18 (Mon) 21:39:55 c9f019 No.2889

>>2874

Music did away with DRM I think, or at least there was a major push back against it way back.