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Re:Genshin Impact made more money in its first year than any... by psyc on Thursday November 04, 2021 @02:21PM (#29110730)
Rightly or wrongly, the big players believe the way is to have more whales playing. However, I agree with you that Fortnite is the gold standard of how to do freemium.
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Re:Genshin Impact made more money in its first year than any... by CraneWorm on Thursday November 04, 2021 @02:35PM (#29110904)
yes, the game that uses fomo and artificially creates scarcity of collectibles to exploit people into spending cash via gambling is the gold standard and every one else is copying it
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Re:Genshin Impact made more money in its first year than any... by duskwuff on Thursday November 04, 2021 @05:23PM (#29112704)
> exploit people into spending cash via gambling

How so? As far as I'm aware, the free-to-play version of Fortnite never sold loot boxes.

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