this post was submitted on 29 Apr 2024
19 points (91.3% liked)

Games

16689 readers
316 users here now

Video game news oriented community. No NanoUFO is not a bot :)

Posts.

  1. News oriented content (general reviews, previews or retrospectives allowed).
  2. Broad discussion posts (preferably not only about a specific game).
  3. No humor/memes etc..
  4. No affiliate links
  5. No advertising.
  6. No clickbait, editorialized, sensational titles. State the game in question in the title. No all caps.
  7. No self promotion.
  8. No duplicate posts, newer post will be deleted unless there is more discussion in one of the posts.
  9. No politics.

Comments.

  1. No personal attacks.
  2. Obey instance rules.
  3. No low effort comments(one or two words, emoji etc..)
  4. Please use spoiler tags for spoilers.

My goal is just to have a community where people can go and see what new game news is out for the day and comment on it.

Other communities:

Beehaw.org gaming

Lemmy.ml gaming

lemmy.ca pcgaming

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
19
Walmart is testing a Roblox feature that lets players buy physical goods in-game (www.videogameschronicle.com)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
7 comments fedilink hide all child comments
top 7 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I don't see how something like this would provide a better shopping experience for consumers then just going straight to wallmart.com or amazon.com or any other storefront accessible through a web browser. The only thing different is that its happening on the Roblox client (not a web browser or dedicated app) and you get a virtual item alongside the physical item (not saying the digital accessories are bad but they're definitely not much of a "perk" of purchasing through the Roblox client.)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

That's going to cause a lot more scammers stealing from kids. And a lot of charge backs.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yeah, this won't go wrong at all! Nope can't see a single flaw with this idea...

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Over the years roblox has morphed from funny virtual legos to an absolute capitalist hellscape with man-made horrors beyond comprehension.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

My kid brother played it over a decade ago and yeah I didn't get the appeal at all, but from what I could tell it was just lil minigame mods like Garry's Mod

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Cronenberg Capitalism?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

Every time I go to buy something on walmart.com I am reminded why I don’t shop at walmart.com