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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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[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

Would that even count as a "whale"?

Less than 20 dollars per user on "microtransactions" which the article goes on to define as "in-game transactions". And 73 dollars on direct steam purchases of games/DLC which very well could just be a single newly released game.

So... one "battle pass" or two or three cosmetics for a live game and a new game or a season pass or two of DLC for an older one?