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MultiVersus studio claims ability to purchase extra lives with real money was "a bug" that was "not an intended feature in the game" (www.gamesradar.com)
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[–] maxenmajs 42 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (6 children)

Nah, they don't get the benefit of doubt between this and the impossible free battlepass grind. The whole game reeks of shitty F2P monetization.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The game is a mess. I watch my kid play it and it’s so less graceful than smash. Framerates randomly drop, lag spikes happen a few times a minute, hit boxes seem nebulous compared to attack animations.

You can use maybe a quarter of the roster for free. You may be able to unlock everybody from in game currency, but I’m not too sure. They also just… removed a character that wasn’t free. If I paid any money for premium content I’d be pissed

[–] Iheartcheese 20 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

They removed The iron Giant while some kind of tournament was going on. There was a story about some dude who was rising the ranks of the tournament and then they just removed his fucking main

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

A+ game development right there. I don’t like how Nintendo runs their online services (and actively opposes game tournaments), but you wouldn’t expect such a change in Smash.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Why oppose tournaments?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Should've been interesting patch notes. "We've noticed the Iron Giant has been overperforming, so we just straight up deleted him so we won't have to think about it."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

I would be wary of letting a child play anything with monetization tactics like this.

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