So, yeah, so next is talking about the shop.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, you heard about that?

You've seen this?

You heard about this?

I heard a little thing about a shop.

Yeah, so let's switch over to this little thing here.

So last week we...

It was last week, right?

Dayslakes just fucking merge.

So last week we showed this video where we showed up a new feature.

Some people didn't actually believe it was an actual feature.

Some people just thought we were trolling, which, I mean, you know.

We can't complain.

We're the, you know, like, boy who cried wolf kind of thing.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.

But, yeah, like, we teased this shop, and some people got, like,

Some people were skeptical, like, oh, is it microtransactions?

Like, oh, no, I don't want that.

Some people got it, like, knew, or not knew, but assumed that we were just trolling.

So it was just like, yeah, a lot of people, like, some people got upset, maybe.

Which, you know, it's understandable, I think.

We were quite aware of what we were doing, I think.

No, I completely disagree.

Really?

Yeah, I mean, because we were making this shot for any kind of meme or whatever, and it wasn't until the morning that we were going to release it that Tim, one of the dudes here, I don't know what he does, but Tim showed up, and he was like, hey, do you think people might misunderstand this as microtransactions?

And I was like, oh...

Yeah, but that's what I mean with it wasn't intentional right you know like we figured that out later But we couldn't really change anything, but we were also okay with it.

I'm not gonna lie Yeah, we're all like that'll be kind of funny.

Yeah, so I got to be honest there But that's what I mean with like we were aware of yeah, we were aware of it Yeah, yeah, but we did it anyways cuz do it for the YOLO.

They don't get the microtransaction counter Three all right.

Let's keep that up for the rest of the stream.

Yeah um

So yeah, it's an actual feature, and the reason why we didn't immediately announce that, like, no, no, no, it's not microtransactions is because we kind of just were like... Yeah, I mean, it was sort of interesting to see what happens because whilst there was that talk of microtransactions, and it's quite easy to put, like, negative feedback at the forefront of your mind, the vast majority of people either didn't care or were excited for something or were guessing that it was some kind of in-game coupon or...

in-game currency thing or whatever, right?

So when we just left that discussion going and looking at it from a high level, it was honestly pretty interesting.

And also we're like trolls, so we kind of liked it when some people got it wrong.

Not just the microtransactions, but other things too.

But honestly, a big part, for us at least, a big part of seeing all the discussions that are happening...

I like it, you're keeping it up.

To be honest, at least I really love seeing all the discussion around it, what it could be and what it can't be, and why is it feasible?

Why do people think it's microtransactions?

Why would that make sense for some people?

Stuff like that.

But, and one thing that I remembered when we put this out is the fact that we've said in the past that we're not going to have microtransactions.

If you don't remember what that looked like, it looked like this.

Microtransactions will not be in the game, nor will loot boxes will not be in the game, not be in the game.

Microtransactions transactions will not, will not, will not, will not, will not be in the game.

Loot boxes, loot boxes, loot boxes.

So that was a fucking lie The counters like fly it up here there were 14 now 69 this is the rest of this shit, but however, okay, so like You know, okay.

So the first thing that came to my mind is like hey Did you know that games can have a shop in it and not have my quick transactions?

It's an age-old thing but

One, we even said that, but we also do have a track record of trolling.

But also, things have also changed against what we've said before, and the whole Steam epic thing is one example of that.

So it's not unfounded that folks could dismiss that we've said no microtransactions.

And the other thing is,

If that's people's first sort of go-to thing, I think that's also a bit of, like, commentary on maybe what people's expectations are when they see a shop.

And maybe that's something industry-wide as well.

So I think there are a lot of reasons why people are thinking microtransactions.

And, like, don't get us wrong.

Like, we understand that people, like, could come up with that idea.

It's not that, like, people are stupid or anything like that.

Some people are.

Yeah.

But it's got nothing to do with this.

It's reasonable in today's climate, I guess, or something.

Yeah, I guess so.

And also, no shade to folks who do use microtransactions.

I think microtransactions, let's get that number up, boys.

Microtransactions can be done well, implemented well in specific contexts.

I think that's fine.

But we've also all seen microtransactions used in less than ideal ways.

Yeah, for sure.

Just give me one second.