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Marvel Rivals' latest gambit is seeing whether you'll pay real money for colours
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The most depressing aspect of it is how many people keep falling for this kind of crap.
I blame streamers for that. Rivals sponsored a lot of streamers, which is kind of interesting for a free to play game. But if you watch theirs streams, the first thing they always do is looking at the new skins IMMEDIATELY. and then they tell you how absolutely fire the new skins are and they buy some with the score credit they get.
They just normalise buying a 20 dollar skin.
Don't know about Rivals, but in Fortnite they also tell you to use their creator code, which gives them some commission any time someone buys something. Affiliate marketing, basically. So, it makes sense for them to go to shop and show all the shiny new skins and how great they are.