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You can soon pay off in-game items in four installments.
Now You Can Buy In-Game DLC And Pay It Off Later new features
Buy now pay later (BNPL) services are becoming more and more popular, and now one BNPL provider has announced a deal with a gaming company to allow people to finance in-game purchases.Affirm has partnered with gaming commerce company Xsolla to allow people to use Affirm to pay off in-game purchases of $50 or more on payment plans. Affirm offers interest-free biweekly payment plans, or longer-term monthly installments that incur interest.This will work similarly to how it does already where Affirm is supported. For supported in-game content, players can choose Affirm at checkout, then Affirm will run a credit check, and then players can choose a payment plan that works for them. This is live now in the US and is coming to Canada and the UK soon.Pay off that in-game character skin in four installments. Xsolla said it’s already in business with “thousands” of game developers for its services, but a complete list of games and in-game content was not published for this Affirm partnership. One confirmed partner is Epic Games, and it’s a big one, as the company runs Fortnite.One thing to keep in mind when using a BNPL service is that, going forward, some credit report providers have announced plans to add BNPL loans to their reports. According to Motley Fool, 56% of consumers have used a BNPL service at least once, up from 38% the year prior.This is just the latest extension of BNPL to new areas, following Klarna’s much-memed deal with DoorDash to allow people to finance their burritos. As people are well aware, life is expensive these days, and being able to pay off in-game DLC on a payment plan might be attractive to the huge contingent of young people who are spending less on video games these days.