Really cheapLEY? F***ing really? (Destiny)

by someotherguy, Hertfordshire, England, Monday, October 05, 2015, 22:26 (3432 days ago) @ cheapLEY

If this makes your blood boil, you need a different hobby. This is the dumbest thing to get upset about.

You lose out on nothing by ignoring them (unless you just have to have new emotes, which you've gone a year without now), and, if Kotaku's rumors turn out to be true, possibly gain FREE MISSIONS because of them.

Sounds like a pretty fucking good outcome to me.

Sometimes the gaming community blows my mind.

The gaming community blows your mind? Gosh, how could people possibly have a problem with paying extra on top of their minimum $60 game?

Don't act like I'm some "entitled gamer" whinging 'cause I want free stuff. Microtransactions in paid games are abhorrent. They mean resources that could be used elsewhere being wasted on paid content. Or they mean content that should be included in the game being portioned up and sold separately. Either way they cheapen the art of the game.

If Destiny was free, I'd be a-okay with Microtransactions (devs have to make money somehow, and cosmetics are a great way to fund a free-to-play game). But I've already paid for Destiny. Twice. Plus £70 of DLC.

The post on B.net doesn't say anything about free content. Based on what we know from the Horse's mouth, Bungie are charging people real money for cosmetics in a game you've already paid for. Jim Sterling would call that Fee to Pay, which is a little on the nose, but not miles off.

It's a nasty business practice, and as much as you wring your hands and tell me "it doesn't affect you if you don't let it" that's just not true. A new economy has been added to the game abd it will affect the game.

Don't act like I'm being unreasonable for wanting a game that isn't tainted by bad business practices.