I might be wrong, but aren’t whales the target demographic for microtransactions? It’s not like the majority of players are buying them. It’s a “vocal” minority that make the business model viable via insane spending habits and the rest of us just have to deal with it.
This is the problem with the whole “vote with your dollar” thing overall. Going by net worth, the median net worth of an american family is $103,500. Jeff Bezos, otoh, has a net worth of 152 billion. That means that he has 1468999 times as many votes as the average person. That’s about a third the population of America. If we “vote with our dollars” because “the free-er the markets, the free-er the people” then one guy has the same power as a full third of the country’s population. As inequality increases, the middle class is disappearing. The number of people with effectively no voice at all is increasing, and the number of people with a voice that can speak over the populations of entire states is also increasing.
Back in college I worked at a big box store (so pretty much everyone was making minimum wage) and one of my coworkers told me he spent something similar on Clash of Clans. Absolutely insane
This whole “it’s only whales” narrative needs to go away, it hasn’t been true for years. Want proof?
Jump on any of the massive free to play or even paid games that top the player count and sales charts every single year. In game you’ll see probably 50%+ of the people you come up against have a paid skin.
Micro transactions are extremely popular across the gaming population because they’re cheap and they give people what they want.
Half the playerbase having a skin that costs a dollar doesn’t invalidate the argument that the majority of total dollars spent come from a very small minority of actual players. Even assuming that what you assert without evidence is actually true, it doesn’t prove your point.
I might be wrong, but aren’t whales the target demographic for microtransactions? It’s not like the majority of players are buying them. It’s a “vocal” minority that make the business model viable via insane spending habits and the rest of us just have to deal with it.
This is the problem with the whole “vote with your dollar” thing overall. Going by net worth, the median net worth of an american family is $103,500. Jeff Bezos, otoh, has a net worth of 152 billion. That means that he has 1468999 times as many votes as the average person. That’s about a third the population of America. If we “vote with our dollars” because “the free-er the markets, the free-er the people” then one guy has the same power as a full third of the country’s population. As inequality increases, the middle class is disappearing. The number of people with effectively no voice at all is increasing, and the number of people with a voice that can speak over the populations of entire states is also increasing.
deleted by creator
Wow. 5k is more than I’ve spent in total for all phones I’ve owned and the software too. I’m in my early 30s.
Back in college I worked at a big box store (so pretty much everyone was making minimum wage) and one of my coworkers told me he spent something similar on Clash of Clans. Absolutely insane
This whole “it’s only whales” narrative needs to go away, it hasn’t been true for years. Want proof?
Jump on any of the massive free to play or even paid games that top the player count and sales charts every single year. In game you’ll see probably 50%+ of the people you come up against have a paid skin.
Micro transactions are extremely popular across the gaming population because they’re cheap and they give people what they want.
Half the playerbase having a skin that costs a dollar doesn’t invalidate the argument that the majority of total dollars spent come from a very small minority of actual players. Even assuming that what you assert without evidence is actually true, it doesn’t prove your point.
They don’t cost a dollar. Most skins in games these days cost about $20 or more.
Since you’re claiming it’s all whales, prove it. The companies aren’t making a billion dollars from a handful of whales.