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by charcircuit 1165 days ago
>Why should they?

Because they may want to provide user value by being a centralized place where you can manage all of your virtual items and NFTs are a component of that.

>it's not worth anything because nobody else sees any value in it now that the rental place is gone.

These items can be reused by other applications to give them a new life. Even in your DVD store example a competing DVD store or streaming service could offer you a sign up bonus or discount if you could prove you had €5 or more credit with the store that went out of business.

>Much like micro transactions, this is making the game less enjoyable just to milk some players

I see it more as the opposite. Letting someone sell the skins they bought to someone else is better for the consumer and isn't just milking them compared to games like Fortnite where nothing can be sold off.
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GTP 1165 days ago
> Even in your DVD store example a competing DVD store or streaming service could offer you a sign up bonus or discount if you could prove you had €5 or more credit with the store that went out of business.

This makes no sense at all, why should a company give me some credit based on credit I had with another company that is even out of business? I could see it working if the two companies are competitors, but if one of the two is out of business it isn't a competitor anymore.

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charcircuit 1165 days ago
>why should a company give me some credit based on credit I had with another company that is even out of business?

Because the more credit that person had with the other business the more valuable the customer would be to have.

>but if one of the two is out of business it isn't a competitor anymore.

There are still other competitors who will be fighting over all of the customers looking for a new a company to replace the one that went out of business.

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GTP 1164 days ago
> There are still other competitors who will be fighting over all of the customers looking for a new a company to replace the one that went out of business.

Then you don't need to prove prior credit with another company: the competing companies could just offer some free credit to new customers, as companies indeed already commonly do.

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