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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 day ago (23 children)

Don't buy these predatory games, refund if you did. Stop supporting these scummy companies, it's the only way they will learn.

[–] Yokozuna 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Honestly, out of all of them - IMHO Capcom puts out quality games that you can buy once and then buy a dlc and be able to fully enjoy an amazing game with incredible replayablity. I'm not saying I agree with the pay for cosmetic reroll thing, but if Capcom wants to put in cosmetic 2-3$ trinkets, whatever. It affects the game barely any at all, and in the case of Monster Hunter, there are so many in-game cosmetics and trinkets you can unlock already that look awesome. On the flip side of this you have scum bag companies that lock FUN behind micro transactions, not solely cosmetics. Still, the pay for reroll is fucked and I only hope we can mod in the ability to change it like we had in World.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They did the same shit in the last MH game and people bought into it anyway. They slowly chip away at consumers with this shit. Remember the outrage over horse armour? These companies normalised this mindset of "cosmetics being paid are fine!". You should buy a game once and be done with it. Expansions I can get behind paid, but that is as far as it should go.

[–] KombatWombat 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They did the same thing with MH World too, and that's one of my favorite games of all time. Capcom shouldn't charge for things like appearance changes, but even so, they create games with huge amounts of value for the price tag. And most of that came from years of free post release added content. A feature-complete game with cosmetic bonuses available as paid dlc is not a problem. Failing to achieve that would be the reason to be concerned over microtransactions. I understand why microtransactions are unpopular, but they can be done well and without them existing, many great games would either not exist or have to be much smaller.

Also, for this specifically, there is a nexus mod that lets you change your appearance for free. There will very likely be a similar workaround with the new game if you have the pc version.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 23 hours ago

This is the point I am making, consumers have been conditioned to have that point of view. The game should just be the $70 or whatever it is and then no MTX. It's irrelevant how good or bad the core game might be, MTX shouldnt exist.

[–] rottingleaf 2 points 1 day ago

Which teaches us that better network connectivity and convenient distribution platforms are not necessarily good.

When we would dream of them in 2005, we would dream of having that industry and quality and economic processes, but with an option of sky cool connectivity and ability to buy and install a game with a click.

Except there's no mechanism where more is indefinitely better or less is indefinitely better.

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