No reason not to, though.
Fuck clouds
MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, arguing against Microtransactions at this point is just being an old man that yells at clouds.
Deestan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s time for people to vote with their wallets and stop purchasing and playing games with predatory monetization models.
But saying that people complaining about MTX are like old man yelling at cloud is wrong. There will always be room for criticizing MTX like there will always be room for criticizing capitalism.
comic_zalgo_sans@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You’re saying that like people haven’t been voting with their wallets all along. Huge amounts of companies aren’t going to design huge amounts of games around this style of payment if it didn’t work.
Besides, not spending on a thing isn’t a “no/negative vote”, it’s just not counted because there is no “no/negative vote”, they do count “yes votes” those that are spending on something. You can’t outvote them as that’s not how it’s measured.
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I definitely agree with you on this. It’s possible to vote with your wallet and still lose the vote. But I simply mean to suggest that those of us who won’t stand for MTX filled games ought to embrace the games that don’t have them (or at least don’t compromise the experience for them) like god of war, or red dead 2 etc. and that we should reach back and find games that we missed and look to purchase and play those rather than get the latest full price games that are still filled with MTX
Neato@kbin.social 1 year ago
Yes. But if they're predatory then they are abusing mental quirks. Similar to gambling there needs to be regulation. Especially on loot boxes and gatcha which are gambling.
rambaroo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not really considering the vast majority of people don’t use micro transactions. These companies make money by farming whales who have mental health/addiction issues.
Nipah@kbin.social 1 year ago
I see this take a lot, and while I don't disagree... I think it downplays the number of people who DO make 'sensible' purchases in a lot of these games.
I personally don't bother with in-game purchases (I also rarely buy DLC... but I also sub to FFXIV regularly, and have all the content for Destiny 2, so sometimes I can be got) for cosmetics or especially boosts. I'd rather earn the items in game, or a step down, earn in-game currency to purchase those items instead because I'm, at the end of the day, paying for a game to play it and while I want to look good in game while doing so, I'm not gonna drop $15 on digital t-shirts.
But there are plenty of people who don't mind tossing down $60 additionally a year into a game like Destiny 2 for sparkly new transmog outfits from the Eververse store, and they'll see it as any sort of reason to do so ('because I have the money', 'because I want to support the developer', 'because I have to collect everything', 'because because because'), and we can't just pretend like its a handful of dudes dropping thousands of dollars while everyone else nobly boycotts the practice.