• Before this shit existed (like back when the hottest shit was Quake), I thought it might be cool to get a professionally made skin everyone in the game could see for like $0.25-$0.50. A dollar, at most.

      The first iteration of a system that could have potentially made that a reality, the things you’d actually wanna buy were $25-50. Like who the fuck workshopped these ridiculous prices?

      • Michal ( Michal@programming.dev ) 
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        1 year ago

        Adjusted for inflation, the price is probably the same 😅

        But seriously they just charge whatever people will pay. It’s not like it’s free market, if people can’t make their own custom skins.

    • SCmSTR ( SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
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      1 year ago

      People who never used fpsbanana or joined a server with a bunch of skins.

      I blame league of legends and then dota. Those things pushed matchmaking into cs and then gamer empowerment into obscurity. Even Microsoft’s version of Minecraft that they rewrote you have to pay real money for in order to save more worlds. There is a direct correlation between laziness and stupidity, and paying more.