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UNCLESAM4420 wrote:

BRO COOL STORY wrote:

You are the reason modern gaming has gotten so horrible. Microtransactions, for whatever reason, are never "right". But nooooo, everything is about the bottom line now, thanks to the shills that forkamundo grande bucks for a worthless digital skin or one use weapon.

No I get it, your money etc etc... But your money and idiotic spending is making it REAL easy for devs to sit back and say hmmm, -Yoink- the game, get money.

Bahumbug

I bet you'll still be playing on the DLC maps (which we get for free because of microtransactions), but that's none of my business.......

SMOK69KMK wrote:

UNCLESAM4420 wrote:

BRO COOL STORY wrote:

I bet you'll still be playing on the DLC maps (which we get for free because of microtransactions), but that's none of my business.......

of course he and everyone else will, because everyone's forced to download the updates (with mostly useless REQ's tbh) to keep playing.
but i guess that's also none of your business.

SMOK69KMK wrote:

UNCLESAM4420 wrote:

BRO COOL STORY wrote:

You are the reason modern gaming has gotten so horrible. Microtransactions, for whatever reason, are never "right". But nooooo, everything is about the bottom line now, thanks to the shills that forkamundo grande bucks for a worthless digital skin or one use weapon.

No I get it, your money etc etc... But your money and idiotic spending is making it REAL easy for devs to sit back and say hmmm, -Yoink- the game, get money.

Bahumbug

I bet you'll still be playing on the DLC maps (which we get for free because of microtransactions), but that's none of my business.......

of course he and everyone else will, because everyone's forced to download the updates (with mostly useless REQ's tbh) to keep playing.
but i guess that's also none of your business.

ReteroX wrote:

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I mean, you're wrong but at this point I'd just be talking to a wall.

So you're saying that the people who enforce deadlines which regularly result in cut content and then push for the inclusion of overpriced additional content aren't the problem?

The average gamer who wants more for the game they love isn't to blame for the state of the industry. Sure, the inclusion of micro-transactions wouldn't have caught on if people didn't buy them but the publishers are forcing their developers to make the act of purchasing content pleasurable. People wouldn't do it if they didn't enjoy it and the big publisher's capitalize on this with systems that play with the human psychological reward system.

So I assume from your display of negative emotions underlined by your phrasing and choice of words(obvioulsy implying some sort of percieved superiority) that you find micro-transactions to be somehow offense to you or your belief systems?

I'm genuinely curious. Who do you think is to blame for the state of the gaming industry? The people who design the perfect traps for the unweary or those who fall into them?

Please try to answer without attempting to insult, it's a waste of time and makes only one of us look bad.

Ramir3z77 wrote:

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I'm genuinely curious. Who do you think is to blame for the state of the gaming industry? The people who design the perfect traps for the unweary or those who fall into them?

Both. Mainly the latter, for giving publishers such incentive to actually do it. Really isn't that hard to avoid the bait.

Said this in another thread, Timesplitters 3 came out in 2005 with over a hundred unlockable characters. Here we have people spending $100 on what essentially equates to five sets of armor and a bunch of weapons for a gamemode, previous iterations of that gamemode just having the weapons on the map itself for free.

There's nothing nice for me to say about that, and even if I were to say what I truly think about that its just beating a dead horse at this point, and I already know what kind of responses I'm going to get. "It's their money" or absolutely terrible analogies about smoking and fast food that I don't have the energy to refute, because anything I say on the matter is just gonna get ignored outright.