I've never been overly fond of micro-transactions to begin with, and I've felt that they had no place in games that you buy to begin with. Some people like to give them a pass on free to play games, or multiplayer only games, but I'm done giving them a pass on anything.
It's old news, but I feel like it's still relevant, and people on the internet and especially in the gaming community like to forget things a little too fast. I was watching some youtube videos, and ended up rewatching one of Jim Sterling's arguably best videos. I may not always agree with him, but when he's right, he's right.
It might be an old video at this point, but it's still relevant and it really just hit me how terrible these game publishers really are that practice these sort of monetary schemes in their games. There is no excuse, none. "it's just cosmetic" or "I can just skip them" is not an excuse because they are still preying on individuals who may not be as strong willed as you are. I wish I could slap every parent who lets their child play games like Fortnite and any other game that is filled with micro-transactions, and battle pass bull shit. They're raising a generation of gamers who are all too happy to throw their money constantly out the window on a single game. A game that has no resale value, or investment value. Instant gratification so they can avoid the FOMO (which is another whole problem).
I feel this video is worth revisiting though, because it just helped me come to make a stand. ANY game, and I mean it when I say ANY game that tries to nickel and dime it's players, whether it's loot boxes, in game currency, battle passes. I'm done. I am never buying another one, and if I happen to be unfortunate enough to own a game that does this, is being deleted off my consoles. Fuck these games.
It's old news, but I feel like it's still relevant, and people on the internet and especially in the gaming community like to forget things a little too fast. I was watching some youtube videos, and ended up rewatching one of Jim Sterling's arguably best videos. I may not always agree with him, but when he's right, he's right.
It might be an old video at this point, but it's still relevant and it really just hit me how terrible these game publishers really are that practice these sort of monetary schemes in their games. There is no excuse, none. "it's just cosmetic" or "I can just skip them" is not an excuse because they are still preying on individuals who may not be as strong willed as you are. I wish I could slap every parent who lets their child play games like Fortnite and any other game that is filled with micro-transactions, and battle pass bull shit. They're raising a generation of gamers who are all too happy to throw their money constantly out the window on a single game. A game that has no resale value, or investment value. Instant gratification so they can avoid the FOMO (which is another whole problem).
I feel this video is worth revisiting though, because it just helped me come to make a stand. ANY game, and I mean it when I say ANY game that tries to nickel and dime it's players, whether it's loot boxes, in game currency, battle passes. I'm done. I am never buying another one, and if I happen to be unfortunate enough to own a game that does this, is being deleted off my consoles. Fuck these games.
