This is bad news for the future of gaming. Not a surprise, but bad news.
Yup but at the same time this only happens because gamers allow it to.
Fuck everyone who bought this shit and enabled this.
The future is dumb. We were promised jetpacks and all we got was microtransactions and microplastic.
Dude, we have microplastics in our balls. That can’t be good, right?
Not unless you’re a Ken doll
I’ve never once paid a microtransaction for anything… fairly priced DLC that adds valuable playable content to the game, of course, but the fact that horse armor took off is pretty baffling to me.
I’ve done it a handful of times myself. Like after three years of playing DRG, I bought a cosmetic pack at a discount.
I don’t mind supporting a developer if they continue to support their game long term and are reasonable.
Exactly why every game now is online required and is half passed/half finished.
I want to see the breakdown of spending per user.
In the mobile games space, like 90% of some games’ revenue comes from a handful of people who drop tens of thousands of dollars.
Industry that went all in on microtransactions at the expense of game quantity/quality sees increased profits from microtransactions
Gross
This really surprises me. I’d expect this from mobile games. I play exclusively on PC, and I’ve never even been offered to participate in a micro transaction. Maybe I’m just playing the wrong (right?) games?
Because you’re playing the right games. When you come across these type of games its so jarring. You open the game and the first thing you see is an ad then a link to the store.
Not sure entirely how to feel about this. It incentives genuinely worse experiences, but it also means that as someone who never pays for any micro transaction, my gaming can be subsidized by those who do. That said, it’s also one of the reasons that I’ve moved away from most games where micro transactions are a major element, and the skins in games like CoD are pretty obnoxious
I’ve bought very few microtransactions and the most satisfying was the Delorean Time Machine from Back to the Future in Rocket League
