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Yeah, back in the day where we wore onions on our belts because it was the style at the time, when you bought a game and you got a complete game, of might have a few bugs sure but you had a complete, fully realized game and you had expansion packs for the same damn price as one of these overpriced skins that provided fully realized campaigns.

And over the decades it's really disheartening to see this devolve into this bullshit gaming environment where games are released completely broken, content carved out for dlc, and companies actively engaging in psychological warfare to fleece us and then abandoning the games they released broken without fixing things because they've extracted all the money they could from their psychological manipulation.

It's just sad and thanks to those developers who are actively fighting this unfortunately quixotic fight, and speaking of that, don't sleep on Baldur's Gate 3, it's a great, complete game with no predatory bullshit from a developer that is fighting in the right side of this quixotic war.

Well said. It saddens me that people are still buying it. For every good AAA release there are like 10 horrible ones. I guess it keeps the indie scene alive.

We're long past the point of video games being developed and financed by true passionate of the craft. From the very top, investors and executive, down by the designer and to the developers, you have entire stacks of people who don't give a shit about the game they're making, or video games in general. It stopped being the case almost 2 decades ago when big money realized gaming r.o.i potential.

That being said, AAA games are so easy to ignore. We can almost pretend gaming has never been this good based on indie games alone.

And here I am still playing Minecraft 🤷 no problems here

That why I'm so happy to see how well Baldur's Gate 3 is doing. It shows that if you make a good game and you don't treat your players like idiots and don't nickel and dime the then you'll be successful. Elden Ring did the same thing last year. I'm happy to buy those at launch to support doing things correctly. The rest of the garbage, I'll pass. There's too many indie games and things I can play instead.

FOMO was the last straw for me

Shiiiiet. That's a very good point. Capcom can go fuck themselves haha.

I think they justify themselves as being purely cosmetics but that price is just steeeeeep. Nonetheless I am very much enjoying the game and for sure a contender for best fighting game to date.

This is the beginning. At some point they will become the new EA.

I consider myself a patient gamer. Never buying new games because of all this bullshit. But online fighting games are exceptions, they have a short span where players of all skill are playing. Wait a year or two after release and the only people left are just so good that there is no community for your low level beginner fights. If you want the game for the story, that is fine. Wait. But if you want to have fun online and progress and all that loop (which is a lot of fun by the way) then you have to bite the bullet and buy soon after release.

Yeah, when I see this kind of microtransactioning, I flag it as something I will pick up when the price goes down to $7 for the whole collected set. Or I'll skip it.

It should bother you. 10-15 years ago you'd get all this content for maybe $20. Sure, this doesn't actually get you anything, but it's a symptom of a much larger problem.

If you haven't yet,try Baldur's Gate 3. You pay once for a game and you get all of the content and no bullshit. That's how all games used to be. We could have more games like it if people didn't just keep saying "it doesn't bother me, it's just...."