Glossary
What is premium currency?
Premium currency is in-game money you buy with real money, such as V-Bucks or Platinum, and spend in the game's store.
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Why it matters for prices
Stores price items in the currency, not in pounds, and sell the currency in fixed packs. Packs rarely match what an item costs, so you often end up with some left over. Bigger packs are usually cheaper per unit, but not always.
To get a real price, we take the publisher's price in currency and the cheapest UK pack, or mix of packs, that covers it.
In the games we track
- Fortnite: V-Bucks, from the PlayStation Store UK.
- Diablo IV: Platinum. The 11,500 pack costs slightly more per Platinum than the 5,700 pack.
- Call of Duty Black Ops 7: COD Points.
- Destiny 2: Silver. Its 1,000 Silver pass is cheapest as two 500 packs.
Each game's calculator works out the cheapest mix of packs for any amount.
Sources
- Blizzard – Diablo IV season page, published by diablo4.blizzard.com
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