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[-] Nipah@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Microtransactions are 'small' purchases made in a game (or via some kind of store that allows you to buy stuff to be used inside of a game).

DLC is any additional downloadable content that is not included with the game (so something like a day 1 patch wouldn't be considered DLC, I'd say).

All microtransations are DLC, but not all DLC are microtransactions, generally (before someone comes along with some kind of physical microtransaction or something I guess)

I personally just view microtransations as anything that isn't 'playable content'. So buying a mount from an in-game store would be a microtransaction, while buying an expansion wouldn't be. Map packs kind of blur the line in this instance, because one could argue that they're essentially 'world cosmetics', but its a hard and fast rule and not something I'd try to enforce as a law, ya know?

[-] joe@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

It's clear that there are multiple different definitions that people have for "microtransactions". I think it's safe to assume that larian has a definition similar to mine. No time in the game that I've noticed did I get prompted to buy the DLC. In fact, I didn't buy it; it seems early access people got it for free.

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