MS CFO Tim Stuart defends throwing MTX into $70 games.

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Cerebralbore101 said:

LudicrousSpeed said:

Please, take the day. Hell, take a week. It will take you that long to be able to come up with something that explains how optional multiplayer skins are required for the "complete experience" in Gears 5. We'll all be here waiting. You can work on your Last of Us 2 $249 thread in the meantime, friend.

1. A complete experience is to experience something in it's entirety including every part.

2. Changing your multiplayer skin is a part of Gears 5.

3. Therefore in order to get the complete Gears 5 experience you need to have access to all the multiplayer skins.

It's a straightforward deductive argument.

How about you work on trying to refute my last argument having to do with your ridiculous Ellie Edition comparison? I suspect you brought up this new angle of attack, because you know that you can't win that one. ;)

Yeeeaaaah, it's pretty dumb. Sure, skins don't change the gameplay or give you bonuses, but it's still part of the experience. If I started up Dark Souls and found that the character creator's options were hidden behind paywalls or...ugh...randomized in boxes...I'd put that garbage game down instantly. 

I've made a habit of not playing games that require microtransactions. I play a few that have them, but I can avoid them (Red Dead Redemption 2 is a good example)