SvennoJ said:
I guess there are a couple GAAS games I'm playing.
GT Sport, although it's no longer really supported. It had free monthly content updates for a couple years, but requires always online and ps+ to play the main mode of the game. You can also buy cars with real money which isn't really needed for playing the game, but a slippery slope nonetheless.
FS2020, a 10 year project. Released incomplete and full of bugs, but gets free content and sim updates alternating between the two. There is no online charge while actually using online for once (2 petabytes of content on the server) but is sustained by selling airports, scenery and additional planes on the marketplace.
Beat Saber, frequent release of more music packs.
My kids play Fortnite and the peer pressure for season passes is insane. Same with Ark, got to have the new map to keep up with their friends.
For racing and other sim games GAAS is not so bad, as long as the price is right, ie no need to fork out more to be able to continue playing the game. RPGs and story driven games are completely unsuited for GAAS imo. I want to buy a complete story, complete it, and be done with it. No waiting for episodes, dlc, shit to get fixed, fallout 76 nonsense. |
The only one of these I have played is Fortnight and outside of the initial spend to buy a season pass you wouldn't have to spend a dime to keep playing. (If you were patient and played a few seasons you could actually get all season passes for free as long as you leveled appropriately each season). I think it is 900 V-bucks ($7 US) to buy the pass and if you level to around 100 each season you earn 1200 v-bucks along the way. I can only think of a couple of skins you can buy that give a slight advantage as they are a little harder to see (all green toy soldier comes to mind). Other than that I'm pretty sure everything else you can buy with V-bucks is worthless as an advantage and many even outright make you easier to see across the map (I'm looking at you glowy back blings).
That said most games I prefer in the traditional format. I buy it and that is all the money ever spent on it.
