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>without in-app purchases

Is that so bad?

There are certainly a lot of loot box patterns that are unseemly, but I'm not sure I understand a wholesale prohibition of in-app purchases entirely.

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I won't touch pay to win crap like loot boxes and coins, but IAP for additional content like maps and levels and such is absolutely fine.

You can always sell those as an expansion pack. It reduces nickel and diming and encourages game developers to create high quality content that they can actually sell as a proper expansion, as opposed to little bits that the user has to pay while in the middle of their game, often in order to achieve something that may barely be possible without spending that in app money in addition to what they've already spent.

But expansion packs are usually sold inside the game. The term in-app purchase is imprecise.

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