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Diablo 4’s Hellish Microtransactions Go From Bad to Worse With $65 Horse Bundle That Costs More Than the Game Itself (www.ign.com)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (4 children)

There IS a way to get this out of games, but it won’t happen. People would actually need to NOT purchase things from companies that display this behaviour, the games included.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

You'd like to think that, but the entire industry is currently collapsing in upon itself because they've spent so long doubling and tripling down on things that nobody was buying already. They won't even think twice about driving beloved studios off a cliff in the pursuit of their corporate wet dreams.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

I wish I could not buy something twice.

[–] drrlvn 5 points 9 months ago

Systemic problems need systemic solutions.

[–] Yewb 3 points 9 months ago

They didn't get me this time