What Does This Mean?
A small, individual in-game purchase — cosmetics, currency, boosts — that on its own seems trivial but collectively forms the backbone of many modern games' revenue models.
EXPLAINER
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REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"The base game is free, they make all their money back through microtransactions."
LORE & ORIGIN
Became standard game-monetization vocabulary once free-to-play and live-service models shifted revenue away from a single upfront purchase toward many small ongoing ones.
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