I don't blame the reviewers for reviewing the product they were given. I blame Capcom for the bait and switch, and the editors who won't edit the review to reflect the current reality

Why skip when you can pirate it for free? Everything is pirateable these days.

I sure can't. They just show back up with "Blocked" on the cover

That's not blocking them. That's just modifying the cover art

Nobody wants to admit they've been taken for a ride.

Mark Twain said it best: "It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled."

Useful idiot is the norm for this generation.

I dislike the microtransactions as well, but there's an insane amount of disinformation about them in these discussions.

Almost all of the items are easily obtainable in the game by just playing, so there's no gating of content behind the paywall. It being a single player game, there's also no competitive advantage to be gained by buying them for real money (or inversely lost out on by not buying them)

The whole discussion is blown widely out if proportion.

I'm gonna paste a comment I left the other day pertaining to this:

I will die on the hill of "Oblivion's horse armor DLC was not the beginning of micro transactions"

Because it wasn't. There were micro transactions for games long before the hore armor thing. Also, horse armor was a one-time purchase for that mechanic.

Lots was learned. They learned they can continue to move the goalposts simply forever it seems.

Wait for the rage over this particular round to die down. Release a game with similar but slightly dialed back bullshit. Tell everyone how much better you are than them.

Repeat until people pay $99 for the right to rent the game for $10 a month plus pay to win MTX.

Sure DD2 is a corpse, but a new game will come growing from its corpse.

Soon the poors won't be able to play games anyway as that will be forbidden by their owners

At this point I think it's safe to say that if Satan was real, he's the biggest shareholder of every tech company in the world, including those that make video games.

the key phrase there being 'more frequent'. the fast travel and character customization are all in the game and have a more in-universe integration. the game systems are supposed to be more immersive than just click the map and fast travel. you typically either take a cart from town to town or warp using a stone that gets used up.

I like it the way it is, makes leaving town to quest and adventure have another layer of strategy. If someone wants to bypass that strategy layer with money then so be it. I certainly would prefer that it be a mod rather than a MTX, and will definitely not be buying any regardless.

Having limited access to a resource to then hook you on microtransactions is from mobile game design. It's literally a freemium mechanic being put into an already upscaled price game.

It's one of the most abusive and addictive ways to develop a game, and you want to portray that positively.

I fucking hate gamers. We've been having this conversation since the horse Armor DLC for Oblivion yet here we fucking are.

I kinda think we should go right off and bomb all the reviews, with the hope that it teaches devs to stop doing stuff like this.

Dark patterns are malicious and antagonistic against the end user. The microtransactions add arsenic to the tea.

Because they're old-tymey. Everything was sepia tinted and muddy back then, and they didn't have fancy dyes or expensive rendering software to make many polygons.

Can't tell if you're joking or not, but gamergate was absolutely not about "ethics in game journalism."

The review copies had no microtransactions. They were added at release.

I heard that fast travel is very limited, but that you can buy fast travel items for real world money.

The problem with that is: the goal of the game makers should be to make the game as enjoyable and fun as possible to sell as many copies as possible.

However, with such micro transactions your goal now is to add annoying stuff to the a level that maximises your profits. How much you can annoy your customers, depends mainly on the conditioning of your target audience.

So the more of that stuff is accepted and financially rewarded by customers, the more annoying games will become to increase the "need" to sell you a relieve.