A psychological look into how Bungie/Activision has structured their microtransactions.
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9 RepliesLet me just break down his broken match a bit here: the 1000 Silver pack with 100 extra equals a total 1100 Silver. With this, you can buy one of the 500 Silver emotes and three of the 200 Silver emotes for a grand total of 1100 Silver. 1000 Silver itself does not break up evenly between buying 200 and 500 Silver emotes. What about the 2000 Silver with 300 extra, you ask? With that, you can buy one of the 500 Silver emotes and a whole nine of the 200 Silver emotes and use up all 2300 Silver. You would have nothing left over to "slightly nudge you into buying more Silver". And why is he just ripping on Destiny? Activision itself does way worse things with other companies. Both CoD developers sell "legacy map packs" of maps they already built and could have easily just included in the base game. But they know those maps are so loved they can make a fortune selling them separately. Tl;dr BDobbins is terrible at math.