• Fosheze@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    This may be an unpopular opinion but as I see it most of D4s microtransactions are fine (still a trash game but that’s a different point). They’re mostly just cosmetics. They only exist so that people who want to can throw money at the company. If you don’t want to buy them then just don’t buy them. Like this portal recolor one. Sure it’s $30 but it isn’t like there is any advantage to buying it. It’s not giving you faster warps to town or more xp or anything like that. It’s only there for you to throw money at blizzard and have a graphic showing that you threw money at blizzard. If you don’t want to throw $30 at blizzard for no gain then don’t throw $30 at blizzard for no gain. If a bunch of whales want to throw away their money on cosmetics then let them.

    • Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      In addition to that jimquisition that another user commented, remember that its easy to say “it doesnt affect me if i dont buy it” but people do buy it. Some people spend silly money on cosmetics and if people keep dojng that then it encourages game companies to spend less time on making the games good and more time on pumping out cosmetics.

      The proof is in tbe pudding. Games are mostly shit now.

      These are massive companies whos sole aim is to make money, not entertaining games. They dont care, they will just follow the money.

    • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
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      9 months ago

      There’s a number of reasons that “it’s just cosmetic” is bullshit.

      • Developer time and effort is limited. More effort on cosmetics is less time on other things.
      • “free” cosmetics will intentionally be made worse than premium ones to drive conversions.
      • the game loses the ability to reward impressive feats with cosmetics, as that harms sales.
      • a non-zero amount of your time is spent being driven to purchase cosmetics.