Charging for online is worse than in-game purchases

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IcaroRibeiro said:

RolStoppable said:

Paying for online means to pay a second time for something you've already paid for, so yes, it's bad. However, it has very little to no effect on game design, so calling it worse than in-game purchases is a stretch.

I suppose the premise of this thread is that you'd like to play online while you can easily avoid in-game purchases, but objectively there's much more damage to gaming coming from in-game purchases.

It's hard to believe online have "very few impact" on game design in this day and age. We now have games specifically build and designed for online multiplayer and the online is sometimes a selling point

From the top 10 of best selling Switch games 4 are online multiplayer-heavy (MK8, Animal Crossing, Splatoon and Smash). Pokemon also have online multiplayer, but I guess not exactly a selling point

On PS4 the numbers are similar. GTA V, Red Dead Redemption 2 and two COD games. There is also FIFA, but I have no idea about the current state of FIFA online multiplayer

 

A game with heavy focus on multiplayer and competition, let's say Overwatch, will need me to keep the membership on going until you really feel done with the game

of thouse, both mario kart and smash are complete games without online, and animal crossing's updates are free and don't require online either.

only splatoon i'd consider truely online dependant, and doesn't it come with 12 months of online?