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Games can no longer use virtual currencies to disguise the price of in-game purchases in the European Union (ec.europa.eu)
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[-] drosophila 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If anything gaming culture has regressed, at least in this aspect.

Remember when the $2.50 Oblivion horse armor DLC was considered to be ridiculous?

[-] NostraDavid@programming.dev 1 points 6 days ago

Remember when the $2.50 Oblivion horse armor DLC was considered to be ridiculous?

Blizzard now sells mounts at the price of 90 EUR, ~1.5x the base price of the game itself...

TBF, it's a useful mount, but 90 fucking Euros...

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