DonFerrari said:
Development structure is the one that will change. And you do know why so many companies changed to f2p right? Because in the end they collect even more money for less cost and people accept much lower quality on f2p game. That is a path I don't intend to travel. |
I am no fan of F2P structures either unless its F2P Multiplayer. Companies will always want an asking price for their games regardless if MTX or Lootboxes are loaded in them. The reason MTX and Lootboxes exists is to help cover the costs of very expensive games however that has been taken advantage of with companies like EA and 2K.
I am okay with MTX, they are not a new thing, they have been around for awhile, the issue is how they are being used. Someone brought up Gears 5, let me say this, Gears 5 MTXs are just what they are, optional purchases if you choose you want more. The game is a AAA budgeted title offering a decent campaign with a fully loaded Multiplayer with enough content to last you 100s of hours at $60. I have brought only 1 thing from the Gears 5 store and that was a targeting reticle which for me looked super cool. I didn't need to buy it or was force to buy it. I did it because i wanted to. To me, that's MTXs done right. I understand not all games follow suit and there are some items that are just rip offs, however again its optional, no one is making you pay $10 for a purple weapon skin.
Our biggest issue with practices like these is when companies choose to chop up their games and plan on selling them bit by bit over time. Destiny is a good example. Full price game ($60) only offering a very short campaign (5 Hours from memory) and already had 2 expansions planned which was actually part of the main story plot which was quite obviously pulled from the main game.
Another game was Marvel vs Capcon (Cant reminder which one) had a character on the actual disk locked away as DLC and the game was sold as a full price game. Those are the practices we need to fight against. Optional MTXs to me is nothing more than a little extra if you want it. I will also argue against lootboxes as its a form of gambling and should not be in video games unless their is a warning label on the box and have options to get them without using real money. Over Watch does this quite well.
