As a primary Xbox user, this is probably my biggest gripe with MS. I don’t think I could ever agree MTX should be in full retail games. But they haven’t been too bad with it, it’s usually cosmetic crap, sometimes overpriced and it only seems to be in a few of their games rn. Not going to lie I was pretty gutted when Halo Infinite is already showing signs of MTX, but then again it is F2P (the only games where I should expect MTX).
Sea of Thieves, a game that I put over 1,000 hours in, has MTX. But in the case of SoT, they have large updates and never charge for DLC, if that’s MS’s strategy to make DLC free, I’m here for it. MS also has a crazy pro-consumer rewards program... I’ve never actually used any of my own money on MTX. On top of that I’ve bought so many games.... for free using the rewards program.
So to me, the insane Value of Gamepass and the pro-consumer Rewards program vastly outweigh any MTX given MS keeps it cosmetic based even if I disagree with the practice.
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