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Re:Epic will pay off class-action loot-box settlement with i... by mc32 on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @12:15PM (#26239867)
This would be like the big tobacco settlement being: big tobacco will pay smokers 100 billion tobacco bucks redeemable for cigarettes at an exchange rate of 100 tobacco bucks per cigarette.
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Re:Epic will pay off class-action loot-box settlement with i... by shagie on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @12:25PM (#26240009)
With cigarettes, there's at least a real product there that has some cost to the company that made it.

With epic game currency, it's just a bunch of bits that could be created without any resource use by the company. They could create 10x more game currency at no more cost to the company.

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Re:Epic will pay off class-action loot-box settlement with i... by edoceo on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @01:56PM (#26241257)
Some dev has to run an INSERT statement. And maybe a test case. Cheap.
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