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Comment by benabbott

6 months ago

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.

How does Starbucks avoid the same with their vouchers?

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

    • 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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