blizz - the fuckhole that rapes you
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2024
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I bought d4 on sale and I've gotten 110 hours out of it. Idk why I should be upset about some optional cosmetics that I'm never gonna buy.
And the whole world is just like you! Right? Impossible that somebody could be or think different.
You sound like a person who doesn’t have a problem with drinking that can’t comprehend alcoholism.
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This may be an unpopular opinion but as I see it most of D4s microtransactions are fine (still a trash game but that's a different point). They're mostly just cosmetics. They only exist so that people who want to can throw money at the company. If you don't want to buy them then just don't buy them. Like this portal recolor one. Sure it's $30 but it isn't like there is any advantage to buying it. It's not giving you faster warps to town or more xp or anything like that. It's only there for you to throw money at blizzard and have a graphic showing that you threw money at blizzard. If you don't want to throw $30 at blizzard for no gain then don't throw $30 at blizzard for no gain. If a bunch of whales want to throw away their money on cosmetics then let them.
There's a number of reasons that "it's just cosmetic" is bullshit.
- Developer time and effort is limited. More effort on cosmetics is less time on other things.
- "free" cosmetics will intentionally be made worse than premium ones to drive conversions.
- the game loses the ability to reward impressive feats with cosmetics, as that harms sales.
- a non-zero amount of your time is spent being driven to purchase cosmetics.
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