| Machiavellian said: Guess what, I have never purchase or every plan to purchase any microtransaction. What you and most gamers still do not get, there is nothing making you have to purchase any DLC, microtransaction, loot boxes or any of that crap. As I stated, if the game is not complete as is without that stuff, I do not waste my time purchasing the game. I never feel the need to purchase a game day 1 or pre-order. I never have to be caught by practices I do not like. This is the difference between being an informed consumer. Why would anyone trust any of these companies when its pretty easy to just sit back and wait until after reviews or just do a little research before purchase. Also as a developer I do understand that if gamers want those AAA games they do have to realize that that the cost of making those games have gone way up from our days in the 80s. When you can have 2 people bust out a game yes everything was included. When you have a team of 300 do a game over 3 years there is a huge difference in scale. Smart companies will always find the right balance between features, price and content while bad ones will not. Everyone has a memory so which each bad attempt, its harder to get gamers to come back to your next game. It all shakes out in the end. |
Here is news for you many people who complain about the practices aren't buying them either as people like you are not who the developers are targeting it's the mass market who aren't as informed or bothered which is why microstransactions are a part of the market now days, not every person in gaming follows reviews in fact it's only the online goers who follow reviews many consumers don't that's why a game like RE6 that got trashed by reviews still went on to sell 6m and even review copies may not even have that feature in as some things are patched in day one.
Oh the old cost chestnut here we go Jim Sterling shoots this notion down on a weekly basis go watch any of his videos we hear about costs then we read articles from EA to the investors about how they still make money with out these practices please spare us the BS, like Jim said if an industry can't make money of an initial sale does that sound like a healthy industry that's going to last? Here's a suggestion work within a reasonable budget then for example instead of bringing in Keifer Sutherland to do your VAs bring in one of many competent lesser known VAs who'd cost you less than a fraction of the price you paid for the former.
