>>1874889
>If some retard is a hundred dollars lighter in the wallet every time "next product" comes out, then it's no skin off of my nose.
I can't believe there's still people who think like this
where the fuck have you been the last 15 years?
World of Warcraft used to get dogged on heavy for having a $13 sub fee on top of having to buy the game, now it has:
>Buy Game
>Buy expansion
>Buy Sub
>shop with cosmetics
>shop with mounts
>shop with pets
>shop with toys
>Legal multiboxxing (buy more accounts or you cannot engage in gathering and crafting in any meaningful way)
>Legal RMT
<Let me repeat: Legal RMT that the entire fucking game revolves around
You know why it's like that right now? Because gook games did it and got away with it.
When Black Desert locks you out of grinding unless you buy $500 worth of pets, and gets away with it, every suitfag in every other company looks at games that would otherwise be ok as they are and goes "Hey, why aren't we doing that?" and that's why Blue Protocol which died due to its shop (and gameplay) being garbage, came out again with slightly better gameplay and the shop is now EVEN WORSE than what it was before. They didn't even see it as a problem because they see others getting away with worse.
Look at Square Enix, all they make is moviegames (with mtx) and gachashit that would've been outdated 10 years ago, they're like that because Genshit Impact made $4 Billions selling 1 character for $350 despite having no playable content for 4 years
Assassin's Creed sells you weapons and currency for real money. In a single player game.
what the fuck are you even talking about? It's fine if the entire industry crashes and burns because what, I can still pay $20 for a roguelite 2D sidescroller with a """nostalgic""" pixel artstyle that would've been free on Newgrounds 15 years ago? Let me guess, it's actually self aware and a brilliant metanarrative on videogames as a storytelling medium because the author is an art school dropout who trooned out at 24 and thinks he understands Twin Peaks and can reproduce it?
Or what, it's a total nostalgia trip that does nothing at all to be fresh or interesting, like the 500th boomer shooter I've seen this week?
Nah, pass.
People should not be allowed to have a cash shop on top of a buy+sub model, or to sell mtx in a single player game. The state videogames are in right not is already beyond the pale, that's why Nintendo can fuck you in the ass with a $10 fine for owning a Switch 2 on every game and people will still happily buy Donkey Kong and Pokemon ZA at $80, at least these games aren't designed around a fucking cash shop, making everything tedious and obnoxious so you'll just give in and swipe.