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this contradiction always confused me. either way the official company is "losing a sale" and not getting the money, right?

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[–] Stern@lemmy.world 61 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Because the book and disc guys couldn't figure out a way to stop you back then.

Nowadays college books have one time codes for tests, and games will sometimes have codes included for inportant unlocks to force used purchasers to pay up.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 points 9 months ago

I've not seen that in games for a while tbh. I think "Project Ten Dollar" died a death and was replaced with a constant barrage of micro-transactions and not so micro-transactions, sprinkled with FOMO dust.