| pokoko said: You know why microtransactions are there? Because people use them. If people did not use them then they would not be there. That's how business works. Demand propagates supply. In that respect, the only ones to blame here, if you want to cast blame, are the consumers who indulge in microtransactions. However, those people have as many rights as consumers as anyone else. I don't see the problem as long as a game does not DEPEND on microtransactions to function correctly. If the game is the same experience for me as if it did not have them to begin with then I'm satisfied. Even better if a lazy rich kid is subsidizing gaming for me by putting more money into developer's pockets. I think I must be one of the few people who want studios and publishers to make money, so they can keep producing games, so I can keep playing. |
I agree with most of the stuff you said but consumers didn't demand microtransactions, the devs introduced it themselves. So basically what used to be free before, now costs money. And even if only a small amount of people buy them, devs will still keep including them in games cause its an extra source of revenue which they didn't have before. If no one buys them, it doesn't really hurt them financially either.
And today its just microtransactions. But if more and more gamers just accept it, then who knows what other methods devs will use to make money in the future. Support it now and in the future we might end up seeing microtransactions giving unfair advantages to gamers that buy them.
For those reasons, I don't think I can ever support them
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