Diablo 4's latest microtransaction controversy is a $30 portal recolor: "You can get Palworld for this price"
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Fans despair as Blizzard charges "almost half the price of the game" for class-specific portal colors
  • Troy@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    All six people who still play Diablo 4 probably bought it though…

  • blindsight@beehaw.org
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    8 months ago

    $30 cosmetic microtransactions are reasonable in Path of Exile, imho. But it’s free-to-play, and most of their MTX are purely cosmetic.

    To get the “full” experience, I suppose you’ll want to drop a retail-box-price on a supporter pack to get some stash tabs, but you can reasonably play the game to end game content (30+ hours of play time for the first time for a new player, I’d guess?) without spending a cent.

    But MTX in a game that’s over $100CAD on release? ಠ_ಠ

    • verysoft@kbin.social
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      8 months ago

      There’s no such thing. It’s just milking people who are crazy enough to fall into the trap of buying them.
      $30 is not a microtransaction, thats a macrotransaction, thats an entire other video game.

      Free to play doesnt give a game a pass on predatory business tactics, they are free to play for one reason only… to sell you worthless pixels for ridiculous prices. F2P games are designed for that purpose and that purpose only.

      But I agree that any paid game should have zero MTX, cosmetic or not. Industry is killing its creative aspect with all this monetisation shit.

    • AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca
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      8 months ago

      Reasonable? Big pass from me chief. Grinding Gear Games isn’t some indie studio that needs every penny anymore, they just used the inertia to get people used to dropping 300$ on a game