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Chicho said:

JEMC said:

This Russian fishing sim is bizarrely popular on Steam but players hate the monetisation, and to be fair it has a $2000 microtransaction
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/this-russian-fishing-sim-is-bizarrely-popular-on-steam-but-players-cant-decide-if-they-love-or-hate-it-perhaps-because-of-the-usd2000-microtransaction/
I hadn't heard of Russian Fishing 4 until PCG's Wes Fenlon noticed it was weirdly popular on Steam. The game's been available since 2018, launching on Steam in November 2021, and since then it's steadily built a considerable audience over time: per SteamDB's three year charts, it was pulling in around 7,000 concurrent players after launch, and three years later averages just over 20,000 concurrent players every day.

$2000 dollars is not a microtransaction. Micro means small. 2k is a big transation not micro.

Indeed. Calling this insane type of deal microtransaction is extremely misleading.

Sadly, it's not the only game with such ridiculous add-ons (like Star Citizen, for example), and then there's people paying hundreds and even thousands of dollars for rare skins for their free to play games.

The world is going insane.