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. ;)

No, accessing every single skin isn’t required for the complete experience. What a nonsensical position to take. You get tons of cosmetics included in Gears 5 and unlock even more. There are extras if you want to unlock them. They aren’t required for the complete experience. If there were characters or abilities or levels locked behind a paywall, ok, you might be missing out on the “complete experience”, but this is nothing but optional extra skins they make. You should have taken a little longer to come up with something better.

Regarding the Ellie Edition argument, I don’t need to refute anything because you’re doing it for me. I understand it’s a weak argument to make, I know that because it’s the same argument you’re making for any game with cosmetic unlocks. So you’re just arguing against your own nonsense :)