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Is that true? Something like 40% of Americans don’t have $400 on hand. Maybe the people spending money on this trend wealthier?

I feel like you’d have to be pretty wealthy for $30 to be unremarkable.

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Maybe the people spending money on this trend wealthier?

I mean we’re already looking at a fairly expensive hobby in gaming, which is going to skew towards people with more money in the first place.

And just speaking from my own perspective as solidly middle class, $30 is pretty comfortably within what I can spend without particularly thinking about it. Like yeah, I obviously can’t just throw $30 at everything I see, it adds up over time, but it’s low enough that I don’t particularly have to think about exactly where it will come out of my budget.

And fwiw, I tend to avoid most in-game micro transactions, because I simply don’t value them all that highly. I barely even care about getting free unlocks in most games.

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