Not sure how many people are following the
current news and gaming trends, but microtransactions are a thing.
They’re apparently a pretty big things in the next gen consoles, and you
know what? People aren’t fucking happy about it.
It’s an easy sale in the mobile market, where most games are $1 or less, and pay for convenience is the flavor of the month; in the hardcore gaming space, where you drop $60+ on a game, you expect to have everything there out of the box.
Developers think we’re stupid as fuck; they think we’re mindless sheep who’ll lap up their precious microtransactions and give them free money, because DLC has been such a lucrative market, and the mobile gaming space is so big; and so they’re getting such a rude awakening, it will hopefully kill off microtransactions in the hardcore gaming space for good. There’s already heavy rebalancing of how systems work to not-favor “pay to win” models in the current released games, and how rushed and bad these games are is not doing them any favors.
It seems for the next gen, developers followed the creed of “patch in the rest of the game later”, in order to have something out for launch. In order to make quick cash to help further fund that development, they threw in microtransactions, trying to set the stadard for this next gen. This is going over as well with gamers as the Xbone’s initial “go fuck yourself and buy a 360” marketing did. Shocker!
This is a fucking wakeup call, developers. This is aimed more at big studios than anything else; you’re no longer the only players in the marekt, and we don’t HAVE to swallow your bullshit, you should be courting us, not acting like fucking princesses expecting us to care for your every whim, while you get lazier and lazier.
Indies are doing some incredible fucking things in the console space, and their production values are just getting higher and higher. We’ve seen developers die off left and right this last generation, and it’s because they’re making shitty games that no one wants to buy. It’s survival of the fittest, motherfuckers. The younger, healthier talent is coming in and killing your old ignorant asses off. Evolve or die.
I’m so happy that my fellow gamers are speaking out against the bullshit developers are trying to pull. It makes me so happy that people aren’t just staring at the ground saying “Okay…” when a developer pulls a total bullshit move like this. If you want to make a shitty free to play mobile game, go ahead. When that bubble bursts and you land flat on your ass? Don’t come crying to us.. but do NOT try and force that shit into a $60 game.
It’s an easy sale in the mobile market, where most games are $1 or less, and pay for convenience is the flavor of the month; in the hardcore gaming space, where you drop $60+ on a game, you expect to have everything there out of the box.
Developers think we’re stupid as fuck; they think we’re mindless sheep who’ll lap up their precious microtransactions and give them free money, because DLC has been such a lucrative market, and the mobile gaming space is so big; and so they’re getting such a rude awakening, it will hopefully kill off microtransactions in the hardcore gaming space for good. There’s already heavy rebalancing of how systems work to not-favor “pay to win” models in the current released games, and how rushed and bad these games are is not doing them any favors.
It seems for the next gen, developers followed the creed of “patch in the rest of the game later”, in order to have something out for launch. In order to make quick cash to help further fund that development, they threw in microtransactions, trying to set the stadard for this next gen. This is going over as well with gamers as the Xbone’s initial “go fuck yourself and buy a 360” marketing did. Shocker!
This is a fucking wakeup call, developers. This is aimed more at big studios than anything else; you’re no longer the only players in the marekt, and we don’t HAVE to swallow your bullshit, you should be courting us, not acting like fucking princesses expecting us to care for your every whim, while you get lazier and lazier.
Indies are doing some incredible fucking things in the console space, and their production values are just getting higher and higher. We’ve seen developers die off left and right this last generation, and it’s because they’re making shitty games that no one wants to buy. It’s survival of the fittest, motherfuckers. The younger, healthier talent is coming in and killing your old ignorant asses off. Evolve or die.
I’m so happy that my fellow gamers are speaking out against the bullshit developers are trying to pull. It makes me so happy that people aren’t just staring at the ground saying “Okay…” when a developer pulls a total bullshit move like this. If you want to make a shitty free to play mobile game, go ahead. When that bubble bursts and you land flat on your ass? Don’t come crying to us.. but do NOT try and force that shit into a $60 game.
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