Yeah, where is the “but think about the children” crowd when you need it ;).
After getting roped into Black Desert by a friend, I decided to never touch a game with microtransactions again. I had a love and hate relationship with that one. I loved the core of the game and the world, but you can feel every aspect of the game is designed to tug at you to spend money, keep you loging in daily and reward your endorphin system with gambling mechanics.
On top of it you get a pricing system that is outright predatory, with prices designed to milk whales and exploit the fear of missing out in normies. E.g. a single costume for a single character up to 30€ outside of sales and all the default stuff is outright dull and boring in design (endgame armor makes everyone look the same, like you’re wearing a full body shrub suit)
Ha! Check out Once Human. This one blew my mind in regards to exorbitant prices for bullshit (unless you just HATE clothing in women, then it’s awesome).
Game’s great though and I enjoyed it greatly. But these prices. Fuck me sideways. And most of them also super convoluted with the usual currency-mix.
I paid for some stuff which they had in clear pricing like €9,99 or whatever. No problem with paying extra for an otherwise totally and completely free game with absolutely no p2w either. I actually even paid just to pay something, didn’t even want the shit i bought. And honestly the dropped armor looked way cooler than the bought stuff, which is 99,9% just skimpy harlot-outfits.
But well, even their lootcrates were expensive af but semi-fair. Buy 15, get 100% of everything. Job done.
Seen way worse in e.g. ElderScrollsOnline. In my short time there I spent many thousand euros there. I had a ton of fun, yes, but admittedly it was TOO much to get and new cool shit every damn week. And totally unfair. You could literally waste hundreds and crates and still just get shit.
For people like me, who sometimes can get lost in just buying stuff…not a great game :-)
Yeah, where is the “but think about the children” crowd when you need it ;).
After getting roped into Black Desert by a friend, I decided to never touch a game with microtransactions again. I had a love and hate relationship with that one. I loved the core of the game and the world, but you can feel every aspect of the game is designed to tug at you to spend money, keep you loging in daily and reward your endorphin system with gambling mechanics.
On top of it you get a pricing system that is outright predatory, with prices designed to milk whales and exploit the fear of missing out in normies. E.g. a single costume for a single character up to 30€ outside of sales and all the default stuff is outright dull and boring in design (endgame armor makes everyone look the same, like you’re wearing a full body shrub suit)
Ha! Check out Once Human. This one blew my mind in regards to exorbitant prices for bullshit (unless you just HATE clothing in women, then it’s awesome). Game’s great though and I enjoyed it greatly. But these prices. Fuck me sideways. And most of them also super convoluted with the usual currency-mix. I paid for some stuff which they had in clear pricing like €9,99 or whatever. No problem with paying extra for an otherwise totally and completely free game with absolutely no p2w either. I actually even paid just to pay something, didn’t even want the shit i bought. And honestly the dropped armor looked way cooler than the bought stuff, which is 99,9% just skimpy harlot-outfits. But well, even their lootcrates were expensive af but semi-fair. Buy 15, get 100% of everything. Job done.
Seen way worse in e.g. ElderScrollsOnline. In my short time there I spent many thousand euros there. I had a ton of fun, yes, but admittedly it was TOO much to get and new cool shit every damn week. And totally unfair. You could literally waste hundreds and crates and still just get shit. For people like me, who sometimes can get lost in just buying stuff…not a great game :-)