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

And have we come full circle to god damn horse armor.

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[-] [email protected] 119 points 1 year ago

It's crazy how far micro-transactions and monetizing games have come since Bethesda charged $2.50 for cosmetic armor to put on your horse. If you'd told someone back then that one day an in-game mount would cost more than the game itself they would have laughed you out of the room.

[-] [email protected] 120 points 1 year ago

I'm so sick of this revisionist bs. Plenty of us were outraged then and warned of EXACTLY this. Y'all reaped what you sowed. Now micro transactions and paid early access are the norm. We screamed and yelled to "vote with your wallets", and by god, you did. "It's just a few bucks" is the most common one I hear. Well, now EVERYTHING is "just a few bucks".

You won.

[-] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago

This. That’s why I gave up on arguing with people a long time ago. There is a shimmer of hope in me that this industry still comes crashing down at some point. I would celebrate it. But by the looks of it, it won’t happen anytime soon.

The best I could do is not buying anything on release, early access or riddled with microtransactions, mostly indie games and maybe one AAA title a year, also avoid certain studios. Oh, and also don’t really care at all when these kind of news come up. I cared back then, I voted with my wallet and still do, but the other side won. Shit happens. There is nothing I can do other than get angry, but that’s not worth the hassle.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

A crash is impossible at this point, the market is too big and vast, if AAA dies, mobile will live on like nothing happened, and guess where lootboxes and gacha started...

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

In casinos, that are (were until recently) government regulated?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I'm with you. I buy almost exclusively on-sale games. I try to buy the super-premium editions about a year after release so I can get lots of content for less than the original game costs, and I avoid any p2w or lootbox games altogether.

Do I miss interactions with some friends who only play the latest titles? Absolutely. I have primarily been a single player gamer anyway, so maybe it just doesn't impact me as terribly.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The market has spoken, and it said some real stupid shit. I've given up on gaming as a hobby, and good riddance.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If we trusted the Market to make it good for us, we'd still have children working 16 hour shifts until they get their arms chewed off by machinery and get thrown on the streets to starve.

"Vote with your wallet" is just something business say to try to convince us that regulation isn't needed, conveniently forgetting to mention that the fattest wallet in the room is the CEO's.

[-] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Also let's not forget the horse armor was the free patch, Microsoft allowed 1 free cosmetic patch on the x-box, then everything else they required Bethesda to put a price on. It just so happened to be win -win for both Bethesda and Microsoft

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