I wonder if VRChat is promoting Fish! so heavily because they hope it will normalize microtransactions.

Fish! is a great game. I enjoy it. I spend time with my girlfriend just hanging out and fishing. Good stuff.

But when vrchat started promoting it to the point of encouraging people to stream it because they "might stop by" I started thinking about it.

They've done a lot recently to try and sweeten the pot for micro transactions. They gave away almost enough to buy something to people. They've been adding packs and items constantly and pushing them, tried selling limited use items...

and here comes a hugely popular game with micro transactions. I wonder how much that factored into promoting it.