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al2o3cr on Feb 1, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: How in-app purchases have destroyed the game indus...

As far as I can tell, the objection to IAPs vs the old arcade model is the difference between "pay to win" and "pay to play".

gmu3 on Feb 1, 2014 [–]

With enough quarters a monkey could beat Area 51 so I think that is arguably "pay to win" as well.

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