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0 pointsbenabbott10mo ago0 comments

Because it does not cost them to provide in-game items (skins, weapons, etc.)

On the other hand, certainly does cost companies to provide compute.

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Tade010mo ago· 2 in thread

How does Starbucks avoid the same with their vouchers?

xeromal10mo ago

They hold 2 billion dollars worth of gift cards on the books.

foxglacier10mo ago

They probably have a good model for what percentage of those will never be redeemed so they wouldn't have to count the whole $2 billion as a liability. The OP's one big customer would be harder to predict the future behavior of.

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ManlyBread10mo ago

What? They have to run the servers all the same.

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