Well, yeah. You get what you pay for. (Gaming)

by Morpheus , High Charity, Tuesday, June 21, 2016, 22:33 (3077 days ago) @ Kahzgul

Disclaimer: This entire direction of the industry makes me salty.

If you pay for shitty little cosmetic changes with no actual gameplay content, that's what the studio is going to make more of. Pay for DLC, and that's what they'll make more of.

Personally, I hate them both.

Give me a finished fucking game the first time. Then, if you want to sell me more, give me a finished fucking expansion.

To date, the only game I've ever played that actually delivered on the promise of microtransactions funding content (and that wasn't a card game) was Mass Effect 3. The free MP DLC was amazing, it was regularly released, and it got better when the DLC sales went up. Everyone else has been suckling at the teat of greed and just spoon feeding the barest minimum of content in order to make people think there was something about to come down the pipe.

The real cynic in me says SRL isn't coming back because not enough people bought the microtransaction shit from it, so whoever was in charge decided "fuck you guys," took their toy and left. Because it was added "for free" Bungie has a right to remove it from the game, too, right?

Your microtransaction dollars are renting poor quality content. They're not buying shit.

Wow I'm grumpier than usual today.

Your anger is solid--things in the gaming industry are making changes that we as a community don't like! And your reasoning about bad microtrans leading to worse ones actually makes a lot of sense. It is indeed far too easy to c/p some cosmetic junk into the system and make a bunch of money off it, and I've come to realize that's exactly what they're doing.