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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

They patented that like 15 years ago. If they were going to do it they would do it.

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The microtransaction concept was made decades before Bethesda's horse armor which had gamers everywhere in a rage. Now look at us, I'm on Lemmy because reddit has Microtransactions.

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world -2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Microtransactions on reddit predate lemmy by like...6 years?

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It took 6 years to get fed up enough to make something better happen. That's how tolerant we are. Right now we're not going to tolerate this, but a thousand cuts from now, we might and Sony is already prepared.

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

You're the first person I've heard claim this website is based on microtransactions on Reddit.

[–] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

Fifteen years ago means the patent will expire soon, so the idea will be public domain for others to implement.