@Thumperchick If you look at the freemium microtransaction model everything is using nowadays as any indication of the kinds of stupid digital things people will pay for, it's not that surprising.
@Thumperchick I paid $20 to be able to shoot digital portals at digital walls. Notwithstanding, I would not pay $5 for a digital face. I'd pay $5 to satisfy my OCD need for collection completion and to top up my streak.
@mikey If they let you buy them, I think that day's face should have a tiny $ next to it, like an asterisk. I'm not sure if it would be seen as a positive, "they cared enough about their streak to pay for it." Or a negative, "Oh, they had to pay for it..." Either way, I think purchased faces should be noted somehow, for our entertainment.
This may be almost as sick, but if we can just buy the faces, what's the point? What does it actually mean? Not that it means much, but what little it means is rendered all the less if you can just buy them. Can there not be one fucking thing on the planet that's not for sale?
Sure, but let that one thing be "the satisfaction of a hard day's work" or something intangible like that. Meh button click faces isn't the hill to die upon in the battle against consumerism.
use that money for therapy to get over your missing meh button clicks...wave goodbye
@Catdad That sounds way more expensive. I was envisioning $5/click. Maybe $4 for VMPs.
@mikey Would you really pay $5 for a digital face?
@Thumperchick If you look at the freemium microtransaction model everything is using nowadays as any indication of the kinds of stupid digital things people will pay for, it's not that surprising.
@Thumperchick I paid $20 to be able to shoot digital portals at digital walls. Notwithstanding, I would not pay $5 for a digital face. I'd pay $5 to satisfy my OCD need for collection completion and to top up my streak.
@mikey If they let you buy them, I think that day's face should have a tiny $ next to it, like an asterisk. I'm not sure if it would be seen as a positive, "they cared enough about their streak to pay for it." Or a negative, "Oh, they had to pay for it..." Either way, I think purchased faces should be noted somehow, for our entertainment.
@Thumperchick I accept that.
Death to microtransactions!
@Brooklynny11218 Yes, death by a thousand pennies!
This may be almost as sick, but if we can just buy the faces, what's the point? What does it actually mean? Not that it means much, but what little it means is rendered all the less if you can just buy them. Can there not be one fucking thing on the planet that's not for sale?
Sure, but let that one thing be "the satisfaction of a hard day's work" or something intangible like that. Meh button click faces isn't the hill to die upon in the battle against consumerism.