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            • microtransaction
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            • an online financial transaction that involves a small amount of money (less than $12). Many games, especially mobile or casual games, involve microtransactions. Sometimes microtransactions can add up and cause financial problems. pixelkin
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            • Microtransactions can be beneficial to the consumer in that they allow 'free to play' games such as the multitude of mobile games available and the most popular game on the planet - League of Legends - to be financially viable. - tremr by
            • This lead to a lot of community outrage as people didn’t want or like microtransactions in the video game. - Medium by
            • When you look at it in this light you can really see why Games As Service have taken off in recent years, and why the industry puts so much emphasis on microtransactions, whether those are skins in Fortnite (a game the NPD doesn't even track) reticles in Black Ops 4 or Gold Bars in Red Dead Online. - Forbes by
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            • Microtransacción
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            • Term not yet admitted in the Dictionary of the Spanish Language Academy (DRAE), yet widely present in all text types regarding technological/gaming topics in spanish (both Castillian and Latin American). According to low fidelity fonts such as Wikipedia, defined as: "Las microtransacciones son un modelo de negocio donde los usuarios pueden comprar objetos virtuales mediante micropagos." It is however also included in academic texts dealing with language normalization around technological terminology, in which it is defined as: "(Del gr. ȝȚțȡȠ-). Microtransacción: Compra online de pequeños contenidos añadidos a un juego, a menudo dentro del propio juego y a un precio reducido, que pueden variar desde equipamiento, armas u objetos decorativos a mejoras del personaje, energía extra, etc. dependiendo del juego, y pueden suponer una ventaja sobre el resto de jugadores o simplemente una diferenciación estética." Scholar study - by Alberto Gómez Herrera
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            • "Las microtransacciones y compra de “cajas de botín” con dinero real se han convertido en una parte importante de la industria de los videojuegos, y constituyen el modelo de negocios de muchos populares títulos." - DigitalTrends.es by Alberto Gómez Herrera
            • "Por suerte, los tiempos parecen estar cambiando. Al ser la primera entrega en contar con “pase de temporada”, uno de los interrogantes clave antes del lanzamiento del nuevo Call of Duty: Modern Warfare orbitaba en torno a lo siguiente: ¿incluirá microtransacciones?" - InGet.es by Alberto Gómez Herrera
            • "Otra de las cosas de las que se habló fue sobre su modo multijugador, que aunque todavía está en una fase muy inicial de desarrollo y es demasiado pronto como para compartir detalles, sí que podría incluir microtransacciones." - Hobby Consolas by Alberto Gómez Herrera
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