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What silly inconvinient stuff would you outlaw if you could? (lemmy.ml)

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I'd outlaw sauce bottles which make getting it all out harder, especially the ones which don't have the opening at the bottom and make it impossible to put the bottle with the opening facing downwards.

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[–] EnderMB 5 points 1 year ago

Microtransations.

I wouldn't ban them, though. I would enforce a law that forces any cash sum for an in-game item to be reversible. If you pay $5 for a hat, you should also be able to sell a hat for $5, and have that money arrive within your account within 24 hours. Any company with a market cap that allows for payment to occur for at least 10 people that are operating microtransations would be forced to oblige.

That way, we either see full in-game currencies where effort is rewarded with real money, or the immediate erasure of microtransations.

We'll also see the "rental" market for videos disappear overnight, because suddenly you can trade in that copy of Shrek 2 you rented from Prime Video for a crisp $15.

Hell, any item you pay for should be returnable within 30 days, at least. Good luck selling a fucking Ultimate Team pack to children, EA! Once they see that pack is full of shite they'll sell the contents back to you. Even worse, the lucky bastards that get a shiny Cristiano Ronaldo will sell for thousands.

Either you build a legitimate financial market, or you don't make money off of shit people don't want.