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Now You Can Buy In-Game DLC And Pay It Off Later

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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/now-you-can-buy-in-game-dlc-and-pay-it-off-later/1100-6532906/

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  • BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Don’t finance DLC purchases. If you are that bad off for money, you need to just play the games you already own.

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    • otacon239@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Or just don’t finance any non-essential purchase. The idea of financing anything smaller than a couple thousand dollars is just wild to me.

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      • Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        What’s also kinda wild is how those plans often have 0 interest rate as long as you’re able to pay the installments on time. Which means in theory you MAKE money by using them because you can earn interest with that money in the meantime.

        It ALSO means they know the people using those services are so bad with money that they can sustain themselves (and make a nice profit) purely by their clients failing to pay on time and then selling the debt to debt collectors. It’s absolutely disgusting how predatory this is, making their money mostly on the people who’d need such a system the most (and to a smaller amount, on people who don’t care).

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      • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Financing can actually be an incredibly good idea if you expect inflation to increase at a greater rate than the interest. It literally saves you effective money.

        That said, it also tends to involve a credit pull (which hurts said interest rates) and becomes a monthly bill.

        So if you can afford the monthly bill AND it is a meaningfully large purchase AND you have every reason to expect inflation to increase more than the interest rate? It is actually a pretty good idea.

        For even a 200 dollar battle pass: no, it is not.

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    • tonyn@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      …or go make some money instead.

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      • ech@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Thanks, I’m rich.

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  • Drekaridill@feddit.is ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This is fucking dystopian

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  • lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Gotta pay off that Doordash burrito first before dropping $50 on skins.

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    • proper@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’ve seen this, also recently popped on on car insurance payment. definitely feels like more and more people are going to end up in debt prison soon.

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      • DivineDev@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Ahhh, prison for people who can't pay their debt, where they accrue even more of it since they can't work... Could this possibly go wrong?

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    • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Now I can afford delivery apps too!

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  • SheeEttin@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Putting everything on credit is a great plan if you expect the world to end very soon.

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    • Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      So it’s a great plan, then! Let’s go!

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      • ech@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Only if you’re right.

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  • boaratio@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Don’t do this.

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  • Zoomboingding@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The era of financing gooner skins for your waifu has arrived

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    • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It always existed with credit cards.

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  • dan1101@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    What is the collateral on a digital product purchase?

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    • Ing0R@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Your soul!

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      • proper@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        just split the payments over 7 sons of your 7 sons

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      • dan1101@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I’m gonna need all the loot boxes for that!

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Achievements.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Just lemme buy it with the money enemies drop when I kill them. 😬

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  • Etterra@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I want to cry but there aren’t enough tears.

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  • dormedas@lemmy.dormedas.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If everybody has to finance their purchases, something might be fundamentally wrong with the economy…

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  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Just what my relaxing escapist hobby needed, debt.

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  • roserose56@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    What for? This is ridicules! This is not a housing market, this is game market! Don’t even bother.

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