This is 100% a fantastic thing. (Destiny)

by Korny , Dalton, Ga. US. Earth, Sol System, Tuesday, October 06, 2015, 04:52 (3432 days ago) @ Cody Miller

Argue slippery slopes all you want, but if the game suffers for micro-transactions, then micro-transactions likely won't survive. If the community benefits from them instead, then I consider complaints limited on a scale of merit. But you don't harm a consumer by providing them additional choices, benefits, or expanded services that they (in the royal they) have been asking for.

This is historically false. Look at Call of Duty, where it started with cosmetic microtransactions, and where it is now. They currently hurt the franchise, but they aren't going anywhere.

Terrible example. Like, laughably bad example.

You do know that there are three developers that make Call of Duty, right?

Treyarch had the Cosmetic microtransactions (weapon skins) back in Black Ops 2. They gave you no advantage, and Sammy and I supported them by buying quite a few of those skins.

In Black Ops 3, they still have cosmetic microtransactions, but have also been able to give players a Paint Shop, where they can fully customize all of their weapons and tools for free, with 64 art layers per side (192 total layers) on each of their items. Not only that, but they clearly spent every cent wisely, since the game is looking to be pretty huge in ambition, scope, and scale on a level that the other two development teams struggle to keep up with (Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer had the non-cosmetic microtransactions, and their playerbases scurried off in droves).

I generally hate Call of Duty games, but Treyarch always gets them right, and they are the only team that has been pushing the product forward, without making people feel that they need to spend more money to keep up. I went ahead and not only ordered the collector's edition, but will probably also buy some skins, because they went through the trouble of making sure we get a Theater mode (which the other devs gave up on).

Plus, even though I don't play Call of Duty games for the multiplayer, I'm not exactly bad at this one:

So yeah, that "example" only further supports the good things that players get from Microtransactions.

And that's without even mentioning the four-player campaign, the four-player Zombies mode, eSports tools, and tons of other features that we got sneak peeks at during the Beta...