Microtransactions in $70 Games
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- Опубликовано: 22 май 2024
- I'm not a fan of microtransactions in almost any form, but it makes me especially mad to see microtransactions in $70 games. DLC that adds meaningful content for the consumer is fine, but cosmetics and boosts for story-focused games are absolute trash.
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Having a signed Weird Al poster is one of the biggest flexes I've ever seen!! :O
That's definitely one of the coolest things I own. It always makes me smile when people notice 😁
I love it when I pay 70 dollars for the option to pay 700 dollars 🎉
Right? Hopefully soon they give us the option for $7,000!
@@retroreviews_ You know I was joking right? at minimum 70,000
At this point they're macrotransations
For real. I can't understand why there's practically no regulation of how much this stuff can cost.
If we don't stand up and refuse buying what we don't agree with, this industry is going to end up in a place we don't want.
Absolutely agree. I only buy games that don't have that predatory garbage.
Is going? It's already there.
This discussion isn't new, we've been rambling about it for more than a decade now.
But, because people are stupid, they didn't listen. Leading us to where we are today.
@@dylives7667 i just got back into the gaming scene a few years ago and still haven't bought a COD or Destiny or whatever you might be talking about; just souls games and i hope they don't start adding mtx etc to what gaming is to me but im sure "is going to" if everyone allows it.
@@dylives7667This. With the addition of 'the modern audience' and a new generation of gamers who don't know how things used to be, this isn't going away anytime soon. It's over guys. Just support the good stuff that rarely comes out
I completely stopped playing any and all games that have any kind of microtransactions in them because microtransactions has ruined the entire gaming industry.
I agree, I think they're a plague on the industry.
Since SBI,DEI, and BRIDGE is mostly involved with recent games, it has never been so easy to finally stop buying said games.
A clear example being DC's SSKTJL. The game isn't just a steaming pile of do do, it's storyboard is written literally by people with a degree in gender studies.
And going even further back, DC's Gotham Knights, which they also were involved in.
The only games I currently own right now are from old systems, PC and Nintendo Switch. Used to be mainly an XBOX and Playstation guy but since they went down the drain, I dropped them.
Not only I'm saving money big time by not buying their slop, also on the pointless online memberships.
And now I can actually focus on growing my catalog for the aforementioned systems.
Going through the backlog is definitely a good call. Better to get through all the awesome titles we have instead of supporting companies that just don't care about the consumer.
I disagree. There should be 0 MTX in a full priced game. Especially if you're buying a bullshit deluxe edition or gold edition or butt monkey edition. The problem with "just cosmetics" is it exposes the haves and have nots in a game. There is a good video on Jimquisition, about how cosmetics can be predatory through peer pressure, there's also the whole FOMO aspect. Though if any, ANY, of the money actually went to devs, I could remotely support a little bit, but it just all goes into greedy shareholders and execs pockets. They don't want a successful game that gets them some money, they want a game that gets them ALL the money. Fuck triple cAAApitalism.
Shoot, did I say I was okay with cosmetics in AAA games? I totally agree with you. None at all is the absolute dream. I'll have to check out that Jimquisition video, I didn't think about that angle when making this video.
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Good video, keep it up!
I love that RUclips has finally started recommending videos with smaller viewcounts again. Also btw you could pull off a fantastic Clark Kent/superman cosplay with your hair/glasses/facial structure
Thank you so much! I really appreciate you checking it out 😁 ooh, that's something I haven't thought of! I'll definitely have to do that for Halloween or something.
Big Corpo fired people for AI it will end badly.
I don't mind AI helping with some processes but replacing actual people with AI to save some money is the stupidest thing in the world.
there are so many games that I think look good, but then I won't give them the time of day because of their monetization strategy
I think that's awesome. If no one buys them, they'll stop making games like that (hopefully 🤞)
I agree, Jerma with glasses speaks truth, in Jerma Potter we trust.
This comment is absolutely GOATed. In Jerma Potter we trust has me rolling 😂
games should never be 70 bucks if they dont improve on what was built off of lower-priced games. Elden Ring is really the only game I think deserved to be 70 bucks, and it actually was not, so my point still stands that high-budget gaming companies should either think of the players first or quit trying to make a product that ultimately will be met with less than stellar reviews. Truthfully if Indie devs had the resources to make AAA-like games, they could probably make the best games in the industry. But eh who cares here is the next Call of Duty at 70 bucks thats an unoptimized boring yearly released trash game with a deluxe version that is 120 dollars cuz why not?
Oh man, Eldin Ring is probably the most content-rich I've played in the last few years. Absolutely worth the full price. And I absolutely agree - giving an indie studio the resources of a AAA dev would go crazy. I can't even imagine what they'd come up with.
I would let you know what I think but it will coast you $1
Damn, guess I better cough it up...
"I'm not a fan of microtransactions". Been there. Done that.
I hope you become a big RUclipsr. This is the RUclips I remember.
Thank you very much! I really appreciate it 😁 that's definitely the goal. Just going to keep grinding 👌
Stephanie Sterling been saying this for years of it spreading throughout the gaming industry over the years. It's too late now. Most of the younger gamers are eating it up like hotdogs in the streets of NYC.
I hope it's not too late, but you're almost certainly right. I'm still hopeful we'll have a shift in the industry towards more single player and story driven games.
We should just boycott all the games that push that nonsense of microtransactions. Hopefully that movement will gain traction with time as more and more people become sick of it. Better yet is to boycott most of the big corps creating games and support more of the smaller devs. Bigger corps can't come up with any decent stories anyway.
Another aspect to take into consideration of microtransactions and why everyone is jumping on the band wagon is money laundering. You can launder large sums of money through microtransactions a lot easier than selling copies (Some of those whales are not real users) A lot of "interesting" things happen in microtransactions and mobile games. One mobile company you never heard of was called Playtika. It was sold for 4$ Billions. Was it worth it or what was really going on there. Anyway, great video as always!
I'm all for boycotting. I have such a big backlog to get through and indie games are typically pretty cheap. I didn't even think about money laundering 👀 that would be a pretty good way to mask something like that. Thanks so much for the great comment!
Remember good DLC. That for $20 you could get quite a few more hours extra content. Ah good times.
Now we have drip feed DLC. Horse Armor level of DLC.
Good DLC is so hard to find nowadays. I think I'll make a list about my favorite DLC expansions to reminisce on a better time.
Genshin doesn't give you the full experience btw, but yes there is really no difference between a fully paid game (like diablo) and F2P games. The line is basically gone.
Oh really? I didn't realize that, thank you for the correction!
I liked the fortnite example. They cannibalize the greater games market leaving garbage games in their wake. Also, like others said, the Weird Al poster is a pimp ass flex👌👌👌👌
It's gotta be one of the coolest things I have. Super stoked to see all the Weird Al appreciation comments 😁
I just don't bother with $60+ games anymore. there's more than enough indie, retro and discounted games to last a lifetime and they tend to offer a better experience anyway if you know what you're looking for.
I agree. There are so many great experiences for so cheap. I love getting comments from people suggesting games because it lets me find more gems. Already playing two from commenters that I'm really enjoying.
All I’m saying is, I’ve been pushed towards more creative means of accessing certain titles and their associated features should there be an obscene breach of decency/respect. And if unable, skip out entirely. Matter of principle. Lots of options out there, for now anyway. I’m sure if they had their way that wouldn’t be a possibility. Pretty sure I left a beefy remark about this on another video of yours, so I wont recycle that. Sad times, eh? On the bright side, I recently named my newborn RetroReviews.
It's good that there are so many options - I actively avoid full-price games with microtransactions. I'll hold out as long as I need to.
What a great honor. I'm flattered beyond belief. Little Retro will do great things 🥲
Honestly I never got it why people would buy a game for 70$ and then pay some more for skins, weapons, battle passes and etc. because I already paid for this product (or service), there's no way I'm paying for anything else. It happened with Payday 2 when DLCs became like updates and you had to pay 5-10$ every time new one dropped, it happened with Dead by Daylight when they release new UPDATE and all characters in it are locked up behind insane amounts of grind or paywall, Killing Floor 2 had the same issue with paid weapons. There's 0 excuse to the fact that I own the game and you ask me to pay for in-game thing that must be there in a first place. You're getting your money from sales and if you dare to add microtransactions I'm not buying this game at all.
It is so baffling. If you're buying a full priced game you should get all the content as part of the experience, not locked behind a paywall. It sucks worse when a game that was full priced at one point goes free-to- play so devs can justify heavy monetization. Rainbow Six Siege is a prime example - it feels like they're taking away features you used to have just to sell them back to the players in battle pass nonsense.
I've fallen for the whole mtx thing a few times (mk11 the blue crystals , gta v shark cards, rdr2 gold bars, spent $180 altogether on those mtxs)... feel like such a dingbat for that. 😅
Changed habits as of late though.. been like 4 years since spending anything on that rubbish. 😁
I think most people have at some point. I got the battle pass for Fortnite early on. Way to go kicking that to the curb! It definitely feels better supporting devs that don't have all that nonsense.
This battle was lost a long time ago
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Absolutely! 💪
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another excellent video
Thank you so much! That really means a lot to me 😁
This video is a fantastic snapshot in to why these horrible business practices exist.
Americans cannot fathom that these things don't have to exist. For everything you criticise you make sure to add "I understand why they are there." Even to the point of arguing for AI input being featured in indie games. You do know that this will affect the workforce of a company regardless of the size of the project, don't you?
Everything that you've criticised each represent a breadcrumb on the road to economic devistation. From microtransactions, to subscriptions, to AI creators, to AI companies being ran for a few people, solely on algorithmic policies. This is the future. At this point it's too late to focus on microtransactions because the American media failed to address them early enough.
I ain't reading all of that.
I spent 4k on genshin last year lol
Holy crap! You must love Genshin 😂
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I shall love this comment because you are cool. Thank you so much! I really appreciate it 😁
@@retroreviews_ Thanks buddy 😃 You are the best !
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I avoid games with excessive DLC/MTX. If I see a game with Denuvo and/or always-online and on top of that it's also selling you dozens of DLCs, I am out. You can thank the mainstream consumer btw, for this shitshow. Games went entirely mainstream in the early 2010s due to evergrowing ad campaigns (including VGAs) and the rise of mobile gaming. The average consumer just doesn't care. The average consumer has no concept of time, quality or passion. It's all about "entertainment" and nothing more.
Oh man, always online is an instant turn-off for me. I'm not about that at all. You're probably right - mobile gaming popularized the free to play model and heavy microtransactions. It makes sense that people complain about missing the glory days of games, because they're probably right.
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Place camera better we see you looking off to the script, luckily i dont watch videos i just listen
I appreciate the feedback! I don't know if I was reading anything for this one - I think this was off the dome. Probably just distracted looking around 😂 but for my lists you can definitely see me looking at paper where I have everything written down. I'm still trying to find the best placement for whenever I have to read stuff.