For full price games on release? No, they really aren’t.
People always says “cosmetics are fine”. They aren’t. Cosmetics are gameplay. Humans love looking cool. They NEED it a lot of the time. The entire fashion industry wouldn’t exist if looking cool wasn’t a major part of human psyche. These MTX wouldn’t sell if it wasn’t. Locking all or most of the interesting looks behind additional paywalls is bullshit. And it’s not OK. I don’t engage with games that do that. There’s plenty to play that don’t abuse their customers.
Some microtransactions are fine for free-to-play games and MMOs; I don’t really like seeing them in full-priced games, especially if I feel it’s engineered in a way to make me pay to play. It’s why I avoid mobile games in general, playing them feels very predatory.
Microtransactions are fine as long as they’re not required to proceed in the game, tbh.
They never are and this attitude is what got us in this microtransaction hell in the first place.
Without them I wouldn’t have gotten Warframe and Guild Wars 2, so I’m not so against all of them.
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Nah, having to pay for cosmetics and stuff is just a tiny bit less bad than pay to win.
For full price games on release? No, they really aren’t.
People always says “cosmetics are fine”. They aren’t. Cosmetics are gameplay. Humans love looking cool. They NEED it a lot of the time. The entire fashion industry wouldn’t exist if looking cool wasn’t a major part of human psyche. These MTX wouldn’t sell if it wasn’t. Locking all or most of the interesting looks behind additional paywalls is bullshit. And it’s not OK. I don’t engage with games that do that. There’s plenty to play that don’t abuse their customers.
Some microtransactions are fine for free-to-play games and MMOs; I don’t really like seeing them in full-priced games, especially if I feel it’s engineered in a way to make me pay to play. It’s why I avoid mobile games in general, playing them feels very predatory.
They never are and this Attitüde is what got us in this microtransaction hell in the first place.
A ton of mtx are pay to win.
I’d prefer we stop calling these MTX. They are paid cheats.