microtransaction

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17:54 Jan 24, 2020
English to Swedish translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Games / Video Games / Gaming / Casino
Additional field(s): Computers: Software, Computers (general)
English term or phrase: microtransaction
Definition from pixelkin:
an online financial transaction that involves a small amount of money (less than $12). Many games, especially mobile or casual games, involve microtransactions. Sometimes microtransactions can add up and cause financial problems.

Example sentence(s):
  • Microtransactions can be beneficial to the consumer in that they allow 'free to play' games such as the multitude of mobile games available and the most popular game on the planet - League of Legends - to be financially viable. tremr
  • This lead to a lot of community outrage as people didn’t want or like microtransactions in the video game. Medium
  • When you look at it in this light you can really see why Games As Service have taken off in recent years, and why the industry puts so much emphasis on microtransactions, whether those are skins in Fortnite (a game the NPD doesn't even track) reticles in Black Ops 4 or Gold Bars in Red Dead Online. Forbes
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5 +1mikrotransaktion
Pernilla Wåhlström


  

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mikrotransaktion


Definition from Wikipedia:
En liten transaktion i ett spel för att t.ex. köpa föremål eller fördelar.

Example sentence(s):
  • Första gången jag hörde talas om mikrotransaktioner var när Playstations pappa Ken Kutaragi talade om det i samband med en tidig Playstation 3-presentation. - Gamereactor  
  • Spelet innehåller nämligen mikrotransaktioner där spelare som inte orkar eller vill spela till sig den interna valutan "credits" kan köpa spelvaluta för riktiga pengar. - Discshop  
  • Mikrotransaktioner innebär att spelaren betalar en mindre peng för att till exempel köpa nya kläder eller nya vapen till sin spelfigur. - Wikipedia  
Pernilla Wåhlström
France
Local time: 12:09
Native speaker of: Native in SwedishSwedish

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