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Re:Epic will pay off class-action loot-box settlement with i... by devonbleak on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @12:21PM (#26239954)
Bitcoin supply is fixed. In-game currency gets created with a database query.

And they're not giving everybody billions. They're forgoing some fraction of $.07B that represents the revenue they would have otherwise captured. My guess is the fraction of people who spend less on these games because they got a little free in-game currency is near-zero and they might actually see a bump in revenue because they can now send out a marketing blast telling inactive users they have a reason to come back.

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