


And as for “no FOMO”, that’s just straight up, uncomplicatedly untrue.
Most predatory in-game shops create FOMO by offering exclusive items for short time windows only. Or they offer massive, often personalized, timed discounts on overpriced items. Or they offer expensive purchases of previously timed exclusive in-game items.
I’d argue that it’s not impossible to run a “no FOMO” cosmetics shop, but it probably wouldn’t be very profitable. No idea how Inkbound’s shop worked, though - I never played the game.


They used to be the biggest publisher on Stadia as well and they couldn’t have handled Stadia’s shutdown any better than they did:
Even though Stadia refunded all purchases, Ubisoft still granted each owner of their titles on Stadia the full, non-plus-ultra-deluxe PC version of each of those game on their launcher. Automatically, for free, and without talking much about it.
My Brother laser printer has told me that my toner is empty three times now for the same cartridge. It eventually refuses to print, but that can be overridden with some undocumented trickery. I have manually overridden it each time, told it that I installed a brand new XL cartridge and it just keeps printing. It just told me, again, that the toner is low - I don’t believe it, I’ll override it again. It would have forced me to throw out at least 66% of the remaining toner if it didn’t have the override.
Geeze, what an obvious sales pitch.