• Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    20 hours ago

    I can’t imagine the kids of today finding pogs particularly interesting, when they’ve got smartphones in their pockets. Maybe if you equip the pogs with an NFC chip that ties into some online game to give you monsters or items or such. But yeah, even that’s going to be a hard sell, unless the game happens to be Roblox or Fortnite.

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      16 hours ago

      If the game were released as free to play, fully playable (though a lot more difficult or boring) with a vanilla af base character, then the pogs were sold in store as the NFC premium monsters/characters/items this maybe could work. It’s just an extra step to microtransactions that make games like Fortnite thrive.