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Critics must rescore Dragon's Dogma 2 in light of microtransactions (www.downtimebros.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

https://sh.itjust.works/comment/10147126

https://lemmy.world/comment/8707129

Here's a couple replies to my earlier comment that bring up games from before and early in the mainstream console days (pre-Xbox/PlayStation).

I'm sure there are plenty of other examples as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Ok, I still don't understand the 'hill you're dying on here.' I don't think anyone truly believed that Oblivion was the First Video Game Ever (TM) with Microtransactions in it, I'm not sure that was the point, I'm fairly certain the point was how ludicrous it was to force people to pay for Horse Armour in their First Person game. It set off a series of discussions about whether or not this should be the way forward, people acquiesced, and it became standard.

Thus: "From the comments here I can see we learned nothing from Horse Armour."

Because people are still defending predatory practices in the industry with 'yeah but you can just grind to get...' or 'but you don't have to...'