are you a true gamer?

[vivster]

Machiavellian said:

vivster said:

Microtransactions are NEVER optional. Games are being made deliberately worse to entice people to buy them to increase the fun of the game to a level it's supposed to be at. That isn't optional, no matter if you buy them or not. Having less fun games is an underappreciated cost.

We must be playing different games because I cannot remember when I have purchased any DLC or Microtransactions.  I also cannot remember any specific game I have purchase where I felt I needed to purchase those items in order to gain the fun I wanted from a game.  Could it be that this feeling of having to purchase the Microtransactions or DLC is purely your own view that you have to have it instead of actually being a condition to enjoy a game.

Good for you, but you do know that you're not the only person on the planet, right? Microtransactions are in games to be bought and every single game that contains them will be altered to make it more likely for people to buy them. Which means every game will be made deliberately worse for the sake of selling them. It's no surprise that the most critically acclaimed games don't have them. Cool if you love to play games that could be more fun but have been made deliberately worse, but I don't.

That's not even going into how they're exploiting and ruining vulnerable and unsuspecting people, but I guess that's just those people's fault for not being as super smart and mentally stable as you are.