Again, industry standard is the issue I was targeting (Destiny)

by Revenant1988 , How do I forum?, Friday, January 02, 2015, 08:32 (3855 days ago) @ iconicbanana

TL;DR

Ideally:

• People with DLC should enjoy it, but realize they are on a hamster wheel.
  
• People without the DLC shouldn't complain about having to "wait their turn" when it comes time to let the other content be king for a week.
  
• Both camps get off the hamster wheel once they have either completed all that they can complete with what they have, or when they aren't having fun anymore

I think I was just trying to say that the industry as a whole has decided to go in the direction of micro-transaction content, for better or worse, and that people that don't enjoy the stratification it causes should aim their complaints at themselves as much as at the industry. Save your breath and vote with your wallet, because that's the only vote publishers care about.

Not sure about "as a whole" because I didn't have any of that stuff in Wolfenstine: The New Order and that was a fantastic single player experience. The last few games I played on 360 didn't revolve around them either...

It remains to be seen if any of the soon to be released games will rely on them, but it seems limited currently.

Microtransations are fine as long as they aren't designed in a way to become the ideal way to play\complete a game.

I hesitate to call Desitny's DLC a micro-transation. Now, trading marks for materials, that is a microtransaction, but of a different sort... if it's in game like that, and doesn't cost real monies, is it any different? (Rhetorical question)

I feel that the pre-order culture that we've created is what needs to die. The hypetrain has become a problem for all. Paying to preview an alpha or beta of a game is also a problem. Essentially, giving people money for things not yet delivered needs to go away.

Microtransactions seem like they prey on people with more money than sense, and if that is the case, well, they would have wasted it somewhere else anyway :P