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Re:All 50 startups from Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Demo Day 1 by jamesfzhang on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @10:15AM (#15072591)
One counterexample is Hearthstone. Players buy packs to have access to cards that otherwise would take them weeks to unlock. AFAIK, professional & hardcore players actually spend a lot of money buying these packs so that they can unlock the cards ASAP and study & test them for competitive play.
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Re:All 50 startups from Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Demo Day 1 by runevault on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @12:31PM (#15074010)
I feel like CCGs tend to get a weird pass because of games like Magic making it a common occurrence while managing to appeal to hardcore gamers.
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