I work at a Gamestop in a mall that gets a decent amount of traction, what happened yesterday sincerely broke my heart.
Yesterday, I had a group of kids come in and empty what looked like their entire piggy bank on the counter with a couple of PSN and XBL currency cards. Its usually a trend to see kids come in and buy V-Bucks or what have you and the interaction between myself explaining to customers what they're for and their parents' looks of disbelief is usually what makes my day. This wasn't one of those scenarios.
These little guys had to have been under 13, dropping around $60-$100 on codes. I jokingly asked what they were buying them for, and without hesitation perked up and said "COD Points." I explained to them how I'm so used to seeing kids buy V-Bucks and they began to exclaim their hatred for Fortnite and how it's "Old" and a "waste of money."
They then went on to tell me the "benefits" of Blackjacks Shop, Contraband and the Special Offers stating how this was such a good investment as BO4's microtransactions are more "worth it."
This is poison.
Of course it's not my place to discourage sales or speak out of turn, so I let them carry on with their happy day as I once remembered what I used COD Points for, before there even was such a thing. I thought to myself how these kids are gonna go off and spend such a big sum of money on cosmetics they'll maybe see for 5-10% of their daily life excluding actual gun camos. I remember being in their exact spot going to gamestop for a PSN card to buy the Afterlife Camo, Bacon, all those goofy camos that were applicable to every gun, covered just about the whole gun, and with their own reticles and calling card to go with it. That only racked up to about $5 as well. Really puts into perspective how much has changed, and how a F2P game like fortnite has changed the scene forever, and ESPECIALLY how Activision rather than going back to their roots and improving, would rather copy the ethics of a game that's free and insert it into a $60 base game. I hope we see some serious change soon, as rare of a chance it'll be.
TL;DR (Some) Kids are buying COD Points over V-Bucks now to get with the latest trend and are incapable of seeing how bad of a system for microtransactions we have now compared to the glory days of BO2.
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