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Now You Can Buy In-Game DLC And Pay It Off Later (www.gamespot.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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Archive: https://archive.is/2025.07.02-160639/https://www.gamespot.com/articles/now-you-can-buy-in-game-dlc-and-pay-it-off-later/1100-6532906/

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[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 34 points 2 weeks ago

Born just in time to finance horse armor.

[-] NJSpradlin@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Cosmetic horse armor

[-] besselj@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 weeks ago

If a game company tries to convince customers to finance DLC or microtransactions, their products are probably shit

[-] lennee@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

and too expensive lol

[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 17 points 2 weeks ago

Is there literally anything that would be worse to use financing to buy than DLC?

[-] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks ago

You can finance pulls for a gacha game, if you want something worse.

[-] brot@feddit.org 14 points 2 weeks ago

This really is a new low - Get people hooked on your game with addictive mechanics. Suck the money out of them. When they're broke, drive them into debt

[-] lath@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Not a new low, it's an old low applied in new ways.

[-] Vegeta@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 weeks ago

I hate this.

[-] BruisedMoose@piefed.social 8 points 2 weeks ago

And I read the other day that "buy now pay later" loans will be hitting your credit report now, so I'm sure this will definitely help make America great again. What could go wrong?

[-] RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 9 points 2 weeks ago

And from what I've heard, they can ONLY impact it negatively.

[-] prole 4 points 2 weeks ago

That's fucking diabolical

[-] dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

Uh nice! Good combination with all those social security number and credit card leaks.

[-] INeedMana@piefed.zip 2 points 1 week ago

now one BNPL provider has announced a deal with a gaming company to allow people to finance in-game purchases.

Great, another data leech for marketing machine

offers interest-free biweekly payment plans

Uh-huh. I wonder, what do they monetize on, if the debt is interest-free. Surely this is only to grow user base. No basket analysis at all...

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