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Tekken 8 players divided as devs add “Tekken Shop” with microtransactions (www.dexerto.com)

submitted 9 months ago by inclementimmigrant to c/games

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I guess this is probably going to be the new shitty norm with bait and switch for reviews then nickel and dime afterwards.

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[–] hatsa122 27 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Divided? One must be pretty naive if they can't see the move they are trying to pull here.

Can't wait for f2p Project L to break into the genre and become the biggest and most popular fighting game.

[–] inclementimmigrant 22 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I mean you've got people who are defending Bilzzard's newest horse armor bullshit so yeah.

ETA: Yup, got quite a few Hardcore Gamers^TM in the thread defending this BS already with 'it's just cosmetics', all fighting games do it, or won't someone think of the devs, like like they think the developers are getting a cut off the money.

Just sad frogs sitting in the boiling water.

[–] caut_R 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, you can find vocal people who will play the apologist for just about anything, it‘s baffling to the degree that I wonder if there‘s paid actors on social media in this sense

[–] harry_balzac 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Definitely paid actors. These companies all have social media teams. It's not improbable that they create fake personal accounts to post apologist bs.

They also can buy sock puppet accounts and use those.

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

Yeah, I'm sure Blizzard's really dumping a lot of resources into "shitposting on a Reddit clone with under 30k MAUs".

[–] FooBarrington 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Feeling called out?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

I wish. I'll bet Blizzard pays good.

[–] Zonetrooper 10 points 9 months ago

Gaming "journalism" can't afford outright say "company deliberately tries to hide enshittification of their game" aloud. Might lose that access to selective early copies for review!

[–] Brunbrun6766 7 points 9 months ago

Can't wait for F2P game from the company probably MOST known for in game shops??

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Bait and switch. That's the move.

[–] PapstJL4U 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Project L will not use LoL but Valorant as base.

Riot is a fan of fomo and high pricess.