Additional developments in thoughts (Gaming)

by Avateur , Friday, August 26, 2016, 13:36 (3011 days ago) @ SonofMacPhisto

I would take it a step further with multiplayer games by pointing out it's all about how they do the microtransactions. Do I still feel Bungie's and even Blizzard's models with Destiny and Overwatch are hostile to the player? Absolutely. But it makes it easier as a whole for people to accept them, and for even myself to accept them (aka not boycott the entire game) because it's aesthetic. There's no actual impact on the multiplayer gameplay. That's super important, and something that other devs and publishers don't seem to get or care about if they do get it.

And Mass Effect 3 is one of the rarest of unicorns in which I would argue microtransactions are done so stupidly well that it defies belief that the majority of companies can't figure it out. But ME3 is also a very special game.