Epic will pay off class-action loot-box settlement with in-game currency

Re:Epic will pay off class-action loot-box settlement with i... by badRNG on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @12:11PM (#26239805)

I mean, they could just devalue the in-game currency. Purchasing said currency would be cheaper, and in game items would be more expensive. It'd be a short-term disruption, but ultimately it wouldn't cost the company much directly, other than temporarily dissatisfied users.

You could even mitigate the former by compensating players by providing them more currency in proportion to the pre-devaluation purchasing power of their virtual wallet.

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Re:Epic will pay off class-action loot-box settlement with i... by MaxBarraclough on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @12:16PM (#26239881)

> they could just devalue the in-game currency

Item prices are fixed by the developer, aren't they? edit I suppose that just kicks the stone down the road. There would still be devaluation in the sense that scarce and expensive items become commonplace.

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Re:Epic will pay off class-action loot-box settlement with i... by falcolas on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @12:39PM (#26240203)

The item prices could always be "re-fixed" by the developer. There's no reason they must to remain static, especially if there was some "give billions of the currency to everybody" that was somehow unable to be rolled back.

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