monetization
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Video Games
What might EU consumer protection law mean for microtransactions?
The EU is taking action against games that push micorotransactions, and it may have a ripple affect that touches on microtransactions in games across the industry.…
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Discussion
What makes you decide you’re done with a game?
I stop playing games for a variety of reasons. Diablo Immortal, it wasn’t the game’s fault — the relentless drumbeat of spend more money, spend your…
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WoW
Could Trading Post Tenders be coming to the online shop?
Images of Trading Post Tenders of various denominations in the style of the Battle.net cash shop were datamined by Wowhead from the latest patch 10.1.5 PTR update, and…
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Hearthstone
Hearthstone Mercenaries gets its last hurrah with a final game update before going into maintenance mode
Hearthstone Mercenaries is getting one big final update, and then the game mode will go dormant. Hearthstone patch 25.4 includes a lot of features for Mercenaries, including…
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Discussion
What takes a game’s monetization from “reasonable” to “unreasonable” for you?
I’m on record as having said that Diablo Immortal was a fun game and that it was possible to play it without spending a cent on it,…
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Overwatch
Overwatch 2 adds a way to pick up last Season’s heroes
There are several paths for players to add newly released Overwatch 2 Heroes to their lineup during the character’s debut season, but the community had been…
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Video Games
Everything Marvel SNAP doesn’t explain to you about leveling and currency
Marvel Snap has a good new player tutorial which teaches you the mechanics of the game in an easy and fun way, but with any complex…
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Hearthstone
Everything you need to know about the Hearthstone Battlegrounds Season Pass
A Season Pass was recently introduced for Hearthstone Battlegrounds, giving players access to many cosmetics — but also to an actual gameplay advantage that can no…
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Discussion
What do you think about subscriptions, Season Passes, and other types of “live service” monetization?
We’ve recently learned that Diablo 4 will feature Seasons, much like Diablo 3. But as is becoming the norm with modern games, it’ll also feature a…
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Diablo Immortal
Diablo Immortal’s in-game store is a problem — here’s how Blizzard could fix it
I really like a lot about Diablo Immortal. I’m enjoying leveling up, seeing the story, the character customization options (with many, many sliders), and I even like…
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