From now on, players who wish to do so will be able to make their purchases in Nexon America’s game stores in crypto-currencies (in Bitcoins, Ethereum and other Dogecoins), in the same way as in dollars or euros.
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Are cryptocurrencies a currency like any other? Financially and legally, we must answer in the negative, but in the shops of Nexon America, they approach it.
By means of a press release, the group Nexon announces that from now on, players will be able to use dollars or euros but also crypto-currencies to pay for their purchases in the stores of cosmetic items of its main games – including MapleStory, Mabinogi, the racing game KartRider, the action game Vindictus or the MMORPG
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Nexon announces a partnership with the BitPay platform (a cryptocurrency exchange known to be easy to use even for newbies): the price of virtual items in Nexon stores remains unchanged, but players who wish will therefore be able to use Bitcoins, Ethereum or even Dogecoin and some other crypto-currencies to pay for their purchases, at the current rate on BitPay.
According to Nexon America, this would be to offer an innovative payment solution to meet a demand from players, while BitPay believes that “the massive public of online players are the pioneers of the daily use of crypto cash “. Above all, we imagine that Nexon sees it as an opportunity to accumulate crypto-currencies cheaply and BitPay to significantly increase its audience and therefore its commissions. We are not quite sure that the players find a real interest in it, at least on a financial level.
For the record, Nexon is not at its first attempt in cryptocurrency: the South Korean giant had announced to invest $ 100 million of its assets in crypto-currencies, for speculative purposes (before see these assets melt by 40% in one quarter).
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