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

by someotherguy, Hertfordshire, England, Monday, October 05, 2015, 23:35 (3432 days ago) @ cheapLEY

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

But that content wasn't IN the $60 game. It is now, and you have to pay for it. How is that wrong?

That's not the issue. Paying for more content is fine. Paying for more content is great. Cosmetics are not real content.

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.

I don't see how it means that at all. I hate the "that should have been included in the game" argument. It's stupid. It's like saying all the map packs that came out for Halo should have been included in the game from the start.

No. Those were playable expansions. Cosmetics have always been unlockable. I don't actually agree that they should have been in-game all along if they weren't there to start with, but adding them solely to sell as microtransactions is not so cool. Regardless, developing these cosmetic items are taking resources away from people making real content. Also the whole "it cheapens the entire medium" thing, but I realise not everyone cares about games as art.

The fact is, the new emotes weren't in the game. You wouldn't have had them anyway if they didn't release them as paid content. So now you still won't have them. You are affected zero percent, you can't convince me otherwise.

Of course I'm affected. A new economy has been added to the game. According to Kotaku this will fund further content. That means future content is intrinsically tied to the success of these microtransaction. It also incentivises further microtransactions, which is a fun slippery slope to play with.

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.

How is that relevant? I don't care how many times you bought the game. That's on you, not Bungie.

Did you not read what I said? In Free-To-Play games cosmetic microtransactions are often the devs only source of income - they're acceptable because the game itself is free and the microtransactions fund the game. Destiny is Premium content. I've already paid for it. The devs don't need to sell microtransactions in order to be profitable. Completeky relevant.