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In Defence of the Cosmetic Whales (www.gamesindustry.biz)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As long as cosmetics can also drop as part of playing the game, I don't care if the shop's charging people $25 for a gear set, because I don't need to buy it.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well by 'developers' I mean studios and publishers not individual employees. My question is why can some games seem to get by just fine and continue development without microtransactions? For example Project Zomboid has been in development for like ten years and has never asked for anything more than the sticker price, they just focus on selling more copies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No Man's Sky is another example, as well, and I think the answer to those examples lies in the greed of the studios. I don't like the idea of microtransactions any more than anyone else who isn't named Bobby Kotick, but given what we know about corporate greed, it's a reasonable conclusion to draw that if they can't make billions with a cash shop they'll make it some other way, and that way would probably be higher sticker prices. Third and fourth yachts don't pay for themselves, you know.