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Valve "followed" 1.7 million Steam users for over a year, and now reports those gamers spent $20 million on microtransactions and another $73 million on games and DLC (www.gamesradar.com)
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[โ€“] Delphia@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

20 million divided by 1.7 is about $11 per person, which isnt really that high.

I also think theres a distinction to be made between microtransactions in f2p titles and microtransactions in AAA premium titles. I logged something like 4000 hours in Mechwarrior online and I bought mech packs because I wanted to support the devs.

[โ€“] Focal@pawb.social 2 points 20 hours ago

I think that's entirely fair.

I do wonder how much of that money has gone to the developers themselves, and not just some executive