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by zeven7 944 days ago
The odd difference here is people supposedly do this knowing they can’t win their money back (which is shocking to me). I assume the argument is they’re paying for entertainment.
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I can only imagine the boardroom meeting where this idea was first proposed.

"So you're saying it's like a slot machine, except they can't win anything and just give us free money? Are you insane? What kind of idiot would sign up to that?"

Two weeks and a beta test later:

"I'm so sorry I doubted you."

You never got momoney back from pacman yet people spent a lot of money on video games.