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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Insanity403" data-source="post: 9332799" data-attributes="member: 7045620">You're ignoring the core bit about how it is a part of another product that you are purchasing individually instead of the full product. I don't understand this take; nobody has this line of thinking when ordering a la carte anywhere else. Why is it so prevalent in this instance? Nobody says I'd like a side of a single chicken tender; they ask for a chicken tender a la carte. They even labeled it as a la carte purchases officially. It being called a microtransaction has always been a people thing; mostly from those that seem to think if you buy them it ends up being more than just paying for the full book or those that compare it to what microtransactions are today in gaming.Like I said; I understand that at it's core it is a micro transaction, but I still feel its disingenuous to label it as a microtransaction. Context matters and an a la carte purchase does not come to mind when people discuss microtransactions or are ever mentioned. It has become a negative word socially to entail an additional product you pay for on top of a base that are generally predatory or cosmetic.To use the video game analogy if the SRD is the base game and the books are DLCs/Expansions then buying part of the DLC wouldn't be a microtransaction; it'd just be called buying part of the DLC. The dice however would be labeled as a microtransactions for instance.Calling it a microtransaction rather than a la carte has led to so much needless discourse online about people misunderstanding what it actually is and has led to people lumping it in to asking for it be removed because "microtransaction bad".</blockquote>

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