This is fucking dystopian
Now You Can Buy In-Game DLC And Pay It Off Later
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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Drekaridill@feddit.is 3 days ago
lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Gotta pay off that Doordash burrito first before dropping $50 on skins.
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.
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?
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 3 days ago
Now I can afford delivery apps too!
SheeEttin@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Putting everything on credit is a great plan if you expect the world to end very soon.
Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
So it’s a great plan, then! Let’s go!
ech@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Only if you’re right.
boaratio@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Don’t do this.
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The era of financing gooner skins for your waifu has arrived
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It always existed with credit cards.
dan1101@lemmy.world 3 days ago
What is the collateral on a digital product purchase?
Ing0R@feddit.org 3 days ago
Your soul!
proper@lemmy.world 3 days ago
just split the payments over 7 sons of your 7 sons
dan1101@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’m gonna need all the loot boxes for that!
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Achievements.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 days ago
Just lemme buy it with the money enemies drop when I kill them. 😬
Etterra@discuss.online 2 days ago
I want to cry but there aren’t enough tears.
dormedas@lemmy.dormedas.com 3 days ago
If everybody has to finance their purchases, something might be fundamentally wrong with the economy…
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Just what my relaxing escapist hobby needed, debt.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
tonyn@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
…or go make some money instead.
ech@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Thanks, I’m rich.