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The value is in scarcity, but it's artificially scarce. It's contrived.

Couldn't this statement apply to gaming as a whole, too?

Is it that being stopped half way through a game and forced to pay for some gizmo to keep playing is worse than having to pay up front for the whole game? Financially there may be no difference at all, right?

(Not a gamer here)

Seriously? On a forum dedicated to startups and development, many who like me do app and game development or lead app and game development teams; you can't figure out who I'm talking to? Seriously?

HN is hardly a game focused forum. The vast majority of people on here don't have anything to do with games.

It was difficult to tell if your "We" meant "game developers" in general or was somehow more specific to Minecraft mod developers (which is what I didn't understand).