Scott McCloud On Micropayments And Gaming

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday February 25, 2004 @08:24AM from the he-likes-micropayments dept.

Thanks to Game Girl Advance for its discussion of a lecture by comic creator Scott McCloud at EA's Redwood Shores campus, during which he floated "the idea of using micro-payments for online gaming, which he analogizes to feeding quarters into the arcade machines of yore." The article's author muses: "Would you pay 25 cents for 100 credits of Bejeweled? What about a dollar for six hours on EverQuest? How about a virtual penny arcade that let you play multiplayer Joust or Gauntlet II online with people from around the world? No monthly subscriptions, just pure pay-to-play." We've previously covered McCloud's hands-on interest in micropayments on Slashdot.

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Easy Fix by rhakka · 2004-02-25 12:44 · Score: 0, Redundant

If anyone DOES contest their payments, even one person, you investigate the company that made the transaction (as the micropayment company that receives the complaint). See if it's legit, first of all. That doesn't take long. If multiple people are complaining about the same company, they probably have a problem with their billing, your own software, or are trying to run a scam.

Everyone doesn't have to complain. As soon as a few do and the MP company investigates and finds a scam, everyone who was charged fraudulently could easily be refunded whether they noticed originally or not.

And finally, it's a fucking penny, who gives a shit? I wouldn't even get mad at bleeding a whole quarter a month, so hell, I'll chip in on feeding 25 scammers until they get caught, ok?