It is a bit baffling. I think it’s more ethical than the alternative though: pay gating useful functionality. Offering paid pallete swaps doesn’t make a lot of sense to me, someone who would never pay for that, but it does at least mean I can just ignore it. If they were to, say, restrict voice calls to a paid subscription, suddenly I’m in a position where either I’m paying for the service or ditching it entirely.
What genuinely confuses me is who they’re finding to buy this shit to begin with.
I’ve seen so many of these failed “Join our club to score points to get tokens to buy virtual dongles that you can use to get into our more-elite clubs with better points and color tokens” schemes over the last ten years. It’s like everyone wants to be Chuck-E-Cheese, nevermind that the company went bankrupt five years ago.
drislands@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
kautau@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They already do pay-gate useful functionality, this is just an alternative revenue stream
MysticKetchup@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Oh it’s undoubtedly going to fail, but it should milk enough money out of their users to keep them going while their investors cash out
shneancy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
ah yes, seeing deepweb market-esque exit scams on the surface web is a sign of a healthy system
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Microsoft had a check ready for $10B.
I can’t imagine how a new flavor of Buttcoin could compete with that.