EA including microtransactions in all games

[Golgatha]

Funny you bring this up. The move to "leveling up" FPS's based on playing time is what turned me off of 99% of the new shooters. If I want to level up I'll play an RPG or platform game. Online it just is an annoyance. Never cared for it. Then they went to the you can pay us to get all that now model and I just stopped playing them all together.

Yeap, I used to be a semi-competitive CS, BF1942, etc. player. The need to "level up" a character who is supposed to be a trained soldier seemed to be a useless time sink which also displaced skill for time invested. They figured out how to monetize shortcutting time invested, which further distanced me from the genre.

EA and Actiblizzard can both DIAF for their crimes against the gamers who supported them over the years.

 

[blastingcap]

Cliff can STFU as far as I'm concerned. I'm not going to be nickled and dimed, and I'm voting with my wallet. If this keeps up, I'll end up only buying legacy games and Kickstarter games where at least I know the money is going the game developer rather than the publishers bent on making their quarterly numbers to please their "1%" shareholders while breathing down the neck of the developers to tweak this and that until the game is a mangled mess that the game developers are embarrassed to be associated with. F*** YOU PUBLISHERS! POWER TO THE GAMEDEVS!

Here's Cliffy B's blog post on micro transactions for those of you who are interested.

http://dudehugespeaks.tumblr.com/post/44243746261/nickels-dimes-and-quarters

Here's just a few of points he makes. I'd suggest reading the whole thing if you have time.

I don't really agree with this. If the game is good people will buy it and it won't need tons of DLC to remain relevant or continue to make money.

 

[mindcycle]

Sadly, that is just how the world is now. They look at gaming as a commodity and how many sheep can we fleece, and not as entertainment. Not with an attitude of "I want to share what I've created with the world."

I agree with this 100%. This is exactly why I do my best to support indie devs coming out with new and unique ideas.

For those that feel the current AAA games landscape is too saturated by COD clones, microtransactions involving hat and gun textures, and games that are essentially boring grind fests, it's time to start voting with your wallets. Eventually all the great indie ideas will be repackaged for the sheep, but at least you can say you were among the first to get in, and well.. the first to get out too.

 

[MTDEW]

In the case of dead space 3; how intrusive were the micro-transactions ? Did you actually need them (or want them) ?

No, you didn't need them in DS3.
It played and felt like a complete single player experience if you chose not to do any co-op or grab any DLC.

But like most, i'm still against this new... Free To PAY...crap.
Because we all know its just going to end with games omitting content at release only to be sold to the player later, thus artificially inflating the price of games.

Sure, they're starting with unneeded DLC to draw us in, but once it takes off, you can darn well bet your games will be sold to you in pieces at an inflated price.

Sadly, for gamers like myself who enjoy long single player RPG's, it doesnt look good for the future. IMO