Tipping for a game like Elden Ring? In this economy?
Former Blizzard president Mike Ybarra made waves recently when he suggested that gamers might want to start tipping their favorite games extra. “I’ve often thought ‘I wish I could give these folks another $10 or $20 because it was worth more than my initial $70 and they didn’t try to nickel and dime me every second,’” he tweeted last week. It was a well-intentioned thought experiment that seemed to miss the forest for the trees.
Some freaked out at the idea of being asked to spend even more money to play a game. Others balked at the idea of donating money that might never find its way into the pockets of the people who actually made the game. IGN video director Destin Legarie probably put this line of criticism the most succinctly. “I think the billion and trillion dollar companies can handle compensating their employees fairly instead of relying on a tip from me,” he wrote in response.
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