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[–] Noite_Etion@lemmy.world 79 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Want to play your game with all the DLC you paid for once the server is shut down... Fuck you.

Oh and playing a cracked version is illegal... Fuck you twice.

Game was shipped with DRM that doesn't work anymore, well sorry no way around that legally... Eat shit.

Everything we sell you is temporary, you don't own your stuff, but we own your money.

Pirate, emulate and tell these companies to sit and spin.

[–] Sylver@lemmy.world 46 points 6 months ago (3 children)

“You wouldn’t download a car…”

At the pay-to-play rate our society is going, I fucking will

[–] Noite_Etion@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

No please.. think of the investors!

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 49 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Watch people defend microtransactions in dragons dogma 2 even though they paid $70 for it. "but you don't need to buy then!" and being able to customize my character shouldn't be limited at all, literally adds nothing to the game

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They do suck. Thankfully for me, there was nothing to tempt me because it's all consumable crap you can get in the game.

[–] homicidalrobot@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It aays a lot more about someone's personal willpower than Capcom's greed to me. Easy to point at the greedy asks from that company, nobody else is selling a 100 USD turtle costume pack.

[–] Piemanding@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah it's pretty greedy. They are going after the players with less willpower, which all these companies do. Seems like Japanese companies get away with it more than Western ones. I just gotta say that Dragon's Dogma 2 is the best game I've played in a while and I loved the true ending. Just wish these companies had some regulation against this shit.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I wouldn't mind if it were priced to actually make sense.

Like why would anything cost more than $1? Or even $0.01? Just greed and stupidity.

Microtransactions for cosmetic items that cost 25% or more of the base game itself are just insane. A whole game, or 4 cosmetic items, that must have taken sooo much effort to design those items to cost so much.

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Eh sorry but even $0.01 is too much. Wanna make a free game and charge for micro transactions? Sure, heck, I even spent some on league of legends. But if Im paying for the game? I don't care if its "just cometic!", "actually a fair price", "you can earn it in game", all of that sounds like bullshit to me and always will.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If they don't make any money they won't bother with microtransactions at all.

So it's either $0.01 for cosmetic items or they don't make cosmetic items at all because You've already paid for the game, and making new things just costs them money.

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

You are set in your mind that those cosmetics wouldnt happen without microtransactions but the truth is that many games were made and still are where cosmetics aren't held for ransom and the return for that exists in customer fidelity but ofc all AAA studios only care about immediate profit, gotta appease the share holders. As an example, witcher 3 had free cosmetic dlc.

[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 23 points 6 months ago

Microtransactions in *any game

[–] Drinvictus@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Latest assassin's creed games.

They are so aware that their side missions suck ass that they have an XP and gold booster so people can get enough levels through only main missions

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago

Ubisoft is just hot garbage.

[–] pleb_maximus@feddit.de 9 points 6 months ago

I'm removing my hand from the box before she even turns it on. Fuck that shit.

[–] Corno@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago

Paid DLC that is required to unlock on-disk content has entered the chat

[–] _thebrain_@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 months ago

Blueprint for games on your phone.

[–] Napain@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago

just realized that o already forgotten the name of the game u r referencing, which made me happy