Games That Were Ruined By Microtransactions

Games That Were Ruined By Microtransactions - Luke Reacts

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@vincible45 8 ай бұрын

I’ll still NEVER forgive EA for pulling support from Battlefront 2 (2017) to focus on the buggy shitshow that is BF2042

@thomashart3473 8 ай бұрын

Do you ever think about where we could be now if the game wasn't killed by EA? Mustafar, Mandalore, Mygeeto, Gungan City, Windu, Plo Koon, Mando, Ahsoka, Cad Bane, Padme, Ventress, Savage, Bo Katan, Moff Gideon, ported BF1 maps - Death Star, Bespin, Sullust etc, skins for heroes, troopers. We lost so bad man. Would've been the ultimate star wars multiplayer game. And with Disney putting $1.5B into Fortnite...i can't see a Star Wars multiplayer/live service coming for a LONG time...

@danaolsongaming 8 ай бұрын

Now, Battlefront 2 is one of the best turnarounds in recent gaming history. But if EA kept supporting it and pushing new content it would have been the best turnaround of all time IMO.

@anonymous_2223 8 ай бұрын

Started playing bF2 when it was released as a free PS plus game. Played for a few hundred hours probably, mostly hero vs villains. it absolutely blows my mind why and how they didn’t realize how much of a jackpot that game was… it’s so insane how they out greed-ed themselves. Didn’t look too much into the release of the game but from the few things I’ve read it was NOTHING like the game Is now in terms of unlocks and progression… they could’ve sold so many microtrasactions for that game… maybe if they just used their brains for 5 mins…

@thebatmandrew7926 8 ай бұрын

I enjoy both games. I hated 2042 at launch but have played it regularly for the past year and it is actually pretty good now. I’m also still salty about battlefront 2 getting the plug pulled. They did the same thing with battlefield 5 as it made a huge comeback and they pulled support at its peak.

@TheArkhamKnight1893 8 ай бұрын

Honestly same the game is pretty special and it’s sad they cut support since we were supposed to get Corusant, Ahsoka, Ventress, Jango, Padme, and Mustafar with Greedo somewhere being worked on before the game came out and maybe Krennic and Jyn Erso since Scariff was the last map added.

@Evanz111 8 ай бұрын

I think microtransactions do inherently make the game worse. I remember classic games including cool cheats, or unlockable skins that looked awesome. Nowadays often they remove those, or put in very lame/safe unlockable skins so that the cool looking pay-only skins stand out more and look better. So often base game content gets dumbed down or simplified in favour of emphasising the microtransactions.

@MilesJ. 8 ай бұрын

Agreed.

@Mojaveknight17 8 ай бұрын

Some games feel like content was removed to be sold

@Dosessss 8 ай бұрын

Oh you mean like the current operation for halo infinite? Imo it’s season 6s battle pass cut up and sold to us for absurd prices

@samc4451 8 ай бұрын

Because content was removed to be sold thats why it feels like it

@Tigerhearty 8 ай бұрын

Games are designed from the get go with microtransactions in mind = grind mindset included in the design , bad and bland designs of armors to make store ones looks great, it influence the game from it's conception and make them undoubtably worse from the start.

@HER0_ 8 ай бұрын

@@Dosessssis the operation a paid dlc?

@jakejimenez7048 8 ай бұрын

I disagree. Even selling only cosmetic items creates a problem. You cannot make cosmetics available by playing the game equal to cosmetics bought in the store. It creates a problem of removing chase rewards from the game to sell it back to you in the shop.

@chadwolf3840 8 ай бұрын

100%. imagine how shitty elden ring would be if you could buy the harder to find collectibles.

@letschatMwithJ 5 ай бұрын

You did not listen to him at all. It’s not a problem because it doesn’t affect gameplay. You still chose to buy it and didn’t have to. The fact is that it’s not wrong as long as it doesn’t force you to.

@chadwolf3840 8 ай бұрын

microtransactions just give me a rotten feeling after ive paid full price for a game. it’s a negative aura effect every time i open the game and makes me not enjoy it as much so i don’t agree with your opening conclusion. for example, knowing i can play elden ring for a couple hundred hours hunting every collectible is exciting. now if they’d offer me for $5 some of the rarer collectibles id feel gross grinding for the same gear because there’d be a price on my time, a massive negative psychological impact that takes the fun out of the grind.

@akaneki7234 8 ай бұрын

Selling Skins can make game worse, AC and Diablo 4 are perfect examples. Significant parts of their gameplay progression is gaining new loot, armour and weapons, visual appeal is a big part of that, selling (even if its just cosmetic) the best looking skins directly undermines the games progression... And then their are games that don't bother having a progression/loot system and just sell skins instead - didn't make the game "worse" but sure didn't make it better, and even then you can heavily argue that was a decision to make a worse game than what they COULD have done. The Halo games had career progression systems that were the primary method for unlocking armour, and you were free to choose your colours, then we got Infinite; the first Halo with a store front and we didn't even get a progressing system (at launch) because now all customisation requires a transaction.

@dirtyhank5330 8 ай бұрын

Wann hear something crazy? Halo used to have NO progression system. You want new armor? Doesn’t exist. Want to try using a different weapon? Figure out where it spawns on each map, no need to grind to a certain level because there was no level. If a player was better than you it was because they were better than you. Not because they had played enough to unlock better equipment or even worse, just paid money for it. When people complain about “modern gaming” it’s because they grew up playing games like that.

@akaneki7234 8 ай бұрын

@@dirtyhank5330 I’m confused as to what your point is?

@dirtyhank5330 8 ай бұрын

@@akaneki7234 god damn why does there have to be a point? These are the ramblings of an old man, they don’t need to make sense

@PhunnyConflicts 8 ай бұрын

I will never forgive EA for what they did to the Dead Space franchise. The fact that Dead Space 3 was built around microtransaction was the most idiotic thing EA has ever done back then. Imagine Resident Evil had MTX - it just does not fit in those types of game. but ya know what? Capitalism.

@walterwang4669 8 ай бұрын

It’s not capitalism, it’s greed.

@ChaseSchleich 8 ай бұрын

And now they'll never fix it because I heard that they thought the Dead Space remake didn't sell well enough so we're probably not getting 2 & 3 remade or a 4th game.

@natedagreat19 8 ай бұрын

@@walterwang4669 capitalism IS greed. The only reason a company exists is for profit, by any means necessary. This is the reason why antitrust laws, labor laws, and child labor laws had to be created in the first place.

@jare2067 8 ай бұрын

i’ll never forgive them for not making another battlefront game

@rewpertcone8243 8 ай бұрын

Resident evil 4 remake does have microtransactions... Not defending it I'm just saying

@Lyoko42o 5 ай бұрын

I completed the shadow wars trophy without buying orks prior to the removal of the shop. You really didnt need Legendary orks, you could brute force victory. I had a couple miss steps on a few stages but hell you can check my trophy list (unlike dreamcast guy). Probably one of the hardest trophies ive ever worked on tbh.

@mr.zwilliams7389 7 ай бұрын

Shadow of War was a bad one, the developers didn’t want loot boxes in the game it was WB that forced it. Luckily immediately after the 1 year contractual obligation expired Monolith removed them and added additional free endgame content. I’ve played hundreds of hour in the meta of that game back in the day and nothing was more pathetic than the shamed Uruk. When you shamed an ork to drop level they would never get that power back. Sure, they’d level up but the penalty was so high it made them worthless. If anyone is interested in playing it still, I recommend it as it is today. Still has a fairly decent size player base for Fort Defense.

@TheMasterMind144 8 ай бұрын

By the way if people want to see a playthrough of Shadow of War from 2017 when the game still had the cash shop, watch FightingCowboy's youtube streams. He beats the game on the highest difficulty, doesnt engage with the cash shop, and denounces the loot boxes as being utterly pointless - in stark contrast to Luke here, who talks about this game despite not having played it back before the patch that removed the mictrotransactions.

@THerculez 8 ай бұрын

When the SWBF2 loot box stuff happened I said that what ever will replace loot boxes will be 10x worse. Now it’s “live service” that are ruining games, when these companies realise that gamers have caught on, they’ll implement something else to try milk us. Like Luke said make a brilliant game and it will sell through word of mouth and reviews.

@popcornfilms1 8 ай бұрын

Micro transaction ALWAYS make a paid game worse. YES. If the ones you mention say that don’t, make no money. They aren’t implemented and therefore they don’t realistically EXIST.

@electriclott 8 ай бұрын

Micros in free games...fine. Micros in full price + season pass games...bad. IMO. I like the old system of good game first, then maybe a couple of DLC drops to add content. Paying for a skin is insane to me. I have never and will never pay for skins.

@104Woodworks 8 ай бұрын

It ruins all games, PERIOD.

@cosmicsin8292 8 ай бұрын

Evolve is a great example of a Good Game that died because 85% of the content that should’ve been included in the base release was locked behind a Paywall on Day 1

@thomashart3473 8 ай бұрын

Enjoy your content Luke, but sometimes i wish there'd been a little bit more research No hate, it's a bit nitpicky but Battlefront 2 never had gold star cards. White>Green>Blue>Purple. There is a gold emblem in game, but that's for character ranks - after you hit the original max level (40 heroes, 70 troopers if i remember correctly) something thet they added in the last update you can then go as high as a 1000 and have a gold badge with your rank. But no gold star cards. They were never in BF2

@TheMasterMind144 8 ай бұрын

Most of the things that he's saying about SoW aren't true either. It's kind of sad to see Luke this sloppy tbh.

@TheMasterMind144 8 ай бұрын

8:20 Nah Luke, you didnt need "Legendary" orcs to defend anything in SoW's third act. Legendary orcs just meant that an orc had one extra epic trait and dropped a Legendary gear piece on death, it said nothing about how good that orc was at combat, in fact you could get Legendary orcs from loot boxes with FAR worse stats than normal guys, due to the nature of the RNG traits. There are videos of people opening chests and getting Legendaries with mortal weaknesses. Monolith also said in one of the pre-release streams for the game that the best way make an orc lose weaknesses and gain strengths is to help it by participating in its Nemesis missions, aka the best orcs were always gained through playing through the game, not from the store. The most important thing in act III Shafow War section was to get as many orcs on your side as possible, quantity mattered the most, and you did this by dominating the attacking orcs. Every mission had between 6 to 15 if not more orcs attacking you which was a lot. Every wave of attackers also had at least one Legendary orc in it, and nothing prevented you from dominating them whatsoever. If the intention was to get you to buy them, then they wouldve changed this, like by giving them the iron will trait which would've been very easy for them to do. But they didn't. In fact if you did go through act III by dominating everyone you came across, and everyone did since it was the best tactic, you got so many orcs on your side after just one high level mission that the army board would be filled up and any other dominated orcs would just despawn at the end of a round. So not only would you not gain anything by buying more orcs for an area, you'd actively lose out on those you could capture for free. And PS: Shadow of War, as opposed to Mordor, had difficulty settings. If you had trouble with anything you could just lower the difficulty, and that also decreased the grind considerably. Not like buying orcs allowed you to play fewer SW fort defense missions anyway. Max level was also not tied to that, you had to complete 20 SW fort missions regardless of level to beat act III. And if you had no xp boost, be it from gems or loot boxes, the xp was balanced so that you always hit 60 when you finished the last mission and beat the game. Even more damning is the fact that Monolith increased the level cap to 80 AFTER removing the loot boxes with the game's final update. Strange for a game "built around" lootboxes to have so many QoL features, huh? Almost like the lootboxes were shoved in there last moment by WB... Edit: Sorry for the bad grammar, typing on mobile is pain.

@lukepauls8847 8 ай бұрын

as someone who played at launch, the micro transaction controversy was way overblown, the transactions basically took away the fun part of the game so it was pointless to buy

@TheMasterMind144 8 ай бұрын

@@lukepauls8847Yup, it was the poor coverage from review outlets that unfortunately made so many people miss out on a great game. 7 years later its annoying to see the same poor arguments being brought up yet again.

@deltafive_o-first2417 8 ай бұрын

Are they always bad=Yes Do they always ruin a game=No

@Taylor-rw4le 8 ай бұрын

All things considered BF2 turned out pretty good these years later, although its still a crime against humanity there’s no galactic supremacy mode

@_____Astral_____ 8 ай бұрын

I feel like even cosmetic microtransactions inherently worsen the quality of a game because being able to work for those rewards would make for a better experience than just whipping out the credit card.

@gabrielcruz7402 8 ай бұрын

Yeah, I remember playing cod black ops 2 with my father, and we used to grind de golden skins to every weapon and how much it used to make you stand out because of how hard it was to get

@octavianmihu7861 8 ай бұрын

Yeah, but for a F2P game like League, for it to stay alive that is pretty much its only option

@gabrielcruz7402 8 ай бұрын

@@octavianmihu7861 I agree 100%

@greggeiger7532 8 ай бұрын

Well we’ve seen them strip away features and then sell it back to you in the form of micro transactions so yeah I’d say it makes the games worse.

@EastyyBlogspot 8 ай бұрын

I always felt that a game that has microtransactions has to make the game worse ....even something like with a game that is good like the recent Helldivers 2 they say you can earn things in the game which is true but if it did not have microtransactions at all would the game be better if they tuned what you can unlock quicker...to me it does not make sense to say they add microtransactions to make things better for the players .

@nunchuksteev9811 8 ай бұрын

Micro transactions 100 percent inherently make games worse, even if only a little. Anytime you can bypass the mechanics of the game, insert the outside world via debit card to unlock even cosmetics, it by definition is immersion breaking. "oh how do you get that mask"? 5 dollars.

@celtic19 8 ай бұрын

Evolve is one I can think of where it was a new ip with a lot of hype and promise and the micro transactions and monetisation model just completely killed the game at launch to a point it couldn’t recover from where it tried relaunching as evolve stage two (free to play) and that couldn’t save it

@tomhavenith2330 8 ай бұрын

7:04 and because the side content is only there for grinding it's mostly of abysmally low quality. It's the reason that they let you pay for the privilege of not playing the game you bought in the first place. And then they are surprised that players check out of this kind of shit.

@troyl200 8 ай бұрын

13:15, DSP - "I don't even know who Luke is! Why is he saying meh name!! It's cuz he wouldn't have an audience unless he name drops me!! Reeee!!" Freakin 4th place @ Evo.

@DubberRucks 8 ай бұрын

DSP: 's not my fault. It's their fault. I'm the victim here.

@McSomething15 8 ай бұрын

I loved Shadow of Mordor. I've breifly played SoW, but just haven't gone back to actually delve into it.

@ChaseSchleich 8 ай бұрын

I beat Mordor. I've tried to get through War a few different times and I always quit. In my 3 attempts, I've maybe gotten half way through it. It just gets so boring and repetitive which wasn't a problem with Mordor.

@Elnegro.. 8 ай бұрын

17:09 moved from Playstation to xbox and had to start all over on my account from max heros. Hate the low level experience, that said there are double and triple xp days that make life easier.

@Mr.Grumps565 8 ай бұрын

We all as gamers need to just not buy games for a whole year or two and watch everything dramatically change

@anonymous_2223 8 ай бұрын

Theres literally no reason to buy a game on release anymore unless it’s one you’re really pumped for and willing to preorder no matter what… like games like GTA 6 and Elder Scrolls 6 eventually, and that’s only bc of the IP. (frankly you can’t even trust Bethesda enough at this point) there are so many damn games to play and there are sales all year round.

@Mr.Grumps565 8 ай бұрын

@@anonymous_2223 even then still don't buy it lol

@DubberRucks 8 ай бұрын

Problem you would have is convincing those who DO throw round the exorbitant costs like it's chump change. People are creatures of habit.

@Mr.Grumps565 8 ай бұрын

@DubberRucks trust me, I know. People called me a boomer just cause I'm tired of overpriced garbage. The worst had to be the ufc 5 people, such a lost group of folk

@anonymous_2223 8 ай бұрын

While I agree with all of these comments… we need to accept the fact that these companies don’t care about your experience. They don’t care that mtx hurt the game… you still have people buying them and that’s why they continue to push the envelope. Plain and simple.

@DubberRucks 8 ай бұрын

After all, to them we're little more than consumers at this point.

@jasonkeely7269 8 ай бұрын

A year before Battlefront II released my wife and l played it at the Star Wars celebration for like 5 minutes (after standing in line for 4 hours) and I swear we played a completely different game and it had a cutscene that i still haven't seen again....super disappointed at launch and it's the last game I ever preorderd because i felt duped

@ThatKidTony 8 ай бұрын

I was flying through AC Odyssey until I hit a wall midway through a quest I was having no issue with until that point. I grinded it for a bit then dropped it and haven't touched an AC since.

@pittbulldawg93 8 ай бұрын

Another game that got a lot of negative press when it released was Forza motorsport 7 when it launched they had what was called price crates that would give you things called mods(cash and XP boosts) and rare cars and even racing suits for your driver which you could earn in a normal gameplay without much effort (the game almost threw these at you sometimes) but you could use in-game cash to purchase these crates but there was a lot of misinformation that was surrounded the game even confusing people about certain aspects of it that just weren't true for example yong yea made a video bashing on the game saying that it one of the worst things he had ever seen that they were taking gameplay elements like night and rain races that were introduced in the previous and locking them behind the crates which was not true it gave you cash and XP bonuses for if you chose to race at night or in the rain which you could change in settings but people were so angry and attacking loot boxes at that time any game that had a loot box style mechanic was bashed and hated on

@ZackThoreson 8 ай бұрын

I do think it is reasonable to basically force players to play a little side content before hitting the end. If they did not sell the “solution” to the “problem” is the it would be ok. The problem is that it looks pretty bad when you go and sell something that lets people skip content that is supposed to be played.

@DubberRucks 8 ай бұрын

Exactly. It keeps bringing me back to the question of how much faith a team really has in their product that they would let you WILLINGLY skip it with mtx.

@ianvanwyk3707 8 ай бұрын

Totally disagree because microtransactions by their very inclusion means that existing content was removed in order to be sold separately back to the consumer, meaning that the game was made worse by its inclusion. This goes for cosmetics as well. Then you also have the instance where the gameplay loop gets augmented in order to justify the inclusion of microtransactìons. Bottom line- microtransactons by their mere existence makes games worse when included, period.

@TheMasterMind144 8 ай бұрын

It's funny because the very game that Luke mentions in this video, Middle Earth: SoW had precisely zero unique content locked behind the loot boxes, everything in those boxes was the same as the the items and NPCs you got by playing through the game, most likely because Warner Bros forced the cash shop into that game at the last moment after everything was already set up. When Monolith added new content, it was always for free aside from the two big expansions.

@ianvanwyk3707 8 ай бұрын

@@TheMasterMind144 Exactly. It is the greedy publishers that are pushing for these MICROtransactions. I guarantee you that most of these devs would not include this crap if they had a choice.

@alexwilliams4729 8 ай бұрын

I can’t believe no one calls this guy out on the shadow of war lies, even A.C odyssey.

@Ryan_Bolton11 8 ай бұрын

What lies?

@alexwilliams4729 8 ай бұрын

@@Ryan_Bolton11 at least these two games aren’t built around making you buy a short cut (solution to a problem), we have to call a spade a spade gamers are lazy.

@TheMasterMind144 8 ай бұрын

I just did. He unfortunately has no idea how Shadow of War actually worked and was balanced, since he clearly didn't play it back when it launched. Kinda sad too since he does great reviews of other games.

@alexwilliams4729 8 ай бұрын

KZbinrs like to use words to belittle the value of certain games, words like grind, repetitive, fetch quest, bloated, and tedious

@alexwilliams4729 8 ай бұрын

@@Ryan_Bolton11a great example would have been avengers (and I love that game), making takedowns purchases.

@kevins1005 8 ай бұрын

Looks like almost everyone disagrees with you. All the recent NBA 2kgames are worse due to micro transactions

@joegarcia4550 5 ай бұрын

Can i just say i think monsters hunters approach to mirco transactions is the right way you don't need it at all but maaann does that sweet futuristic looking skin for my sword and shield look good 😂

@AdamThundercock 8 ай бұрын

In my opinion Deep Rock Galactic does micro transactions well, they have a few “supporter packs” with some skins and that’s it

@DubberRucks 8 ай бұрын

See? I personally don't have a problem with that if it let's you throw a few bucks the devs way if you like the game enough and existing mtx don't stifle your enjoyment.

@Schrsmnymkr 8 ай бұрын

I heard that someone is gonna be doing a mandalorian star wars game and the first thought I had was which ever studio is gonna do it will ruin the game with micro transactions.

@SenseiSeagal420 8 ай бұрын

I 100% Odyssey and the DLC without buying any xp boosters or skins and felt completely fulfilled. AC Valhalla waa just way too much extra crap that I didn't even feel the need to finish the base game(I didn't hate it, but I just prefer my games to have an ending and backtracking on such a huge map)

@nooby250 8 ай бұрын

Ac Odyssey made the game worse with the xp boost. Without it you are forced to do all side quests. With it you can play the game at your own pace.

@hatman3445 8 ай бұрын

Destiny 2 is poster child of this, while Warframe is beacon of example for the opposite

@thebaffman4898 8 ай бұрын

Also Destiny 2 thrives on throwaway content. Everything you grind for eventually becomes useless, and that's by design.

@crazzy4194 8 ай бұрын

I remember playing bf2 day 1 and going against someone who bought a maxed out Vader that would have taken 50+ hours to get

@Frank-kq4te 8 ай бұрын

They removed microtrabsactions a week later. It's unfair to remember bf2 for this, where everything they did after was amazing in terms of live service game.

@fulcrum2867 8 ай бұрын

There is a misconception about BF2 in this video. A considerable chunk of first years of Battlefront 2's lifecycle was reworking star cards and removing loot boxes entirely. The game currently is only progression based, leveling equaling better abilities and modifiers.

@kenmck7802 8 ай бұрын

IDidn't answer my question, Why so expensive? Because THEY get to charge WHATEVER they WANT. There's no "free market" governing things. It's ALL what THEY WANT.

@raeilltasticinkburke9111 8 ай бұрын

Assassins Creed Origins was enough of that particular formula for me. Haven’t played a Ubisoft game since. I’m happier for it.

@justinmills9305 8 ай бұрын

BF was destroyed not necessarily because of the direct impact of micros but because of that direction EA forced everyone into. What a franchise it was… hope for a redemption

@fssstyuniaf 8 ай бұрын

My boy. Look at what they did to my boy (Battlefront 2) 😭

@DubberRucks 8 ай бұрын

I'll still always prefer the pc and ps2 versions of Battlefront. Oh the hours clapping droids never gets old 😂

@TheAnonLee 8 ай бұрын

I love Ac odyssey but dear lord the do grind required to get through was awful which sucked because there’s a great game there.

@DanOates1 8 ай бұрын

And Vader and Luke were locked by a 200 hour grind OR you ahve the FREEDOM to buy them ;)

@kenmck7802 8 ай бұрын

These companies are no longer "video GAME makers", they're microtransaction makers. They're not sitting around the board thinking on how to make a QUALITY game, too much WORK in that. How do we get MORE transactions in there? THAT'S the "discussion. The money from the sale of THE game pales in comparison to the POTENTIAL of what they can make. Look at Rockstar, the greeeaassstteestt SELLING game of alllll time yet the profits from that are no where NEAR the FLEECING they've done off of their microtransactions. What have they done with alllll those BILLIONS? NOTHING for single player but they sure can put a CASINO in their multi player. ANOTHER fleecing system. Wonder WHY things cost so much? There's NO "market forces" governing ANY of it. There's no warehouses of stuff, NO assembly lines, not transport, no product sitting there gathering dust. IT'S NOTHING but ones and zeros. "Supply and demand"? WHATEVER the "demand" they can MEET it as fast as it comes. It's a FILE in a FOLDER, long ago paid for, that gets copied and sent on to the sucker. Those guys from "the day before". You called them SCAMMERS. Pfffttt AMATEURS. The ceo of Blizz SCAMS it's SUCKERS out of 100s of MILLIONS before they take their morning s*it.

@theoutsiderjess1869 8 ай бұрын

Honestly microtransaction never in the Assassin creeds game just never made sense to me

@Indigamesforlife 8 ай бұрын

Payday 2 had this problem, they broke the balance of the game for lootboxes. if it was a gun with attachments thats fine but adding multipliers on the guns from crates make the game pay to win.

@matthewmcghee2004 8 ай бұрын

On Star Wars Battlefront 2: All cosmetics are for free. Star Cards are earnable from doing gameplay. Levelling up etc. When you level up, you can upgrade one (1) star card by a colour/rarity when you level up. (Common to Rare etc). This is all because they (EA) changed the game through updates and patches. They went went off to help Battlefield 2042 and left the game after releasing the Celebration Edition of the game (all cosmetics unlocked). This was the wrong decision as BF2042 failed.

@goobbludon1774 8 ай бұрын

I think microtransactions always worsen a game. We don't know how games are manipulated behind the scenes to entice players. Like RE4R, I'm certain that getting the cat ears was purposely mqde annoying to get people to buy upgrade tickets for infinite ammo

@Lyoko42o 5 ай бұрын

Yakuza 8 has NG+ behind a $100+ Ultimate Edition. Ill wait for it to be $30 thanks...

@Lyanraw 8 ай бұрын

If the micro transaction is for a thing and not a random box it's not always the worst. If I work 60 hours and want my guy to have a cool hat whilst playing a game for the 30 minutes I have free I'm happy to buy it. Someone telling me that's not fair or I need to grind can f*** off

@theedethproof8147 8 ай бұрын

I disagree that mtx doesn't inherently hurt a game. Because if there is a skin or ship or anything I want but cannot buy it that inherently hurts the visual appeal I could be feeling for a certain character or asset I truly enjoy using

@jeremy9474 8 ай бұрын

I don’t think micro transactions themselves ruin games but it’s the amount of time and priority they put towards them. APEX for example is at its roots a great game with buggy servers and very bad SBMM. I never passed Platinum but played against Preds in public matches EVERY SINGLE GAME. Yes, it’s a skill issue I will never be Pred or master level skill in that game but the game doesn’t think so and that’s a problem for me.

@One_Point_Safety 8 ай бұрын

NCAA college football 25 has me scared it's going to be ruined by microtransactions

@philipberlanda 8 ай бұрын

I think microtransactions are horrible firnthe most part. Assassins creed is basicly making it impossible to beat the game unless you just play the game for years. I bought assassins creed odessy and i basicly felt scammed. I couldnt get very far into the game without raging. I think if a npc just rashinally beats you then it feels deserved. But if youve been grinding and you run into someone that is hust completely impossbile to beat then it feels forced. It honestly happens alot more to me then before. Even tho i played shadow of war recently i rage quit that game like a couple of times.

@MeggaMann_theBlueLion 8 ай бұрын

If it’s pay to win. Yes. Far Cry for example. I never could advance to better weaponry etc unless I bought it. Skins I get. Cosmetics I get. That’s fine. But to pay to win. No. Ghost of Tsushima. Horizon Zero Dawn. Days Gone. Death Stranding to name a few. Good games that required no micro transactions

@BSultimate 8 ай бұрын

Which makes it sad that Sony want to head down this road

@exodore2000 8 ай бұрын

Dungeon Keeper Mobile. Also Elder Scrolls: Blades.

@tomhavenith2330 8 ай бұрын

18:08 Isn't that the most American thing ever... Getting THE FREEDOM to pay for shit (nobody really needs). Or is this my European Socialist brain speaking?

@viniciusrosasilveira2344 8 ай бұрын

Games with microtransations should cust less

@craignaylor2648 8 ай бұрын

One piece bounty rush bye bandi namco they will release a character that completely breaks the game wait a few months and sell you the counter it’s plain as day the motive great game but still sucks to see that type of marketing

@everythingbuzzcityEBC 8 ай бұрын

Shadow of war is actually a super fun and great game…

@BSultimate 8 ай бұрын

EA and 2k sports need to be bought to book. They need to be regulated like casino gaming products

@DubberRucks 8 ай бұрын

After all aren't most of them casinos with occasional gameplay mixed in? 🤔 🤣

@_Darth_Vader_ 8 ай бұрын

But they’re “surprise mechanics”…

@DubberRucks 8 ай бұрын

@bazwell6735 8 ай бұрын

For a game like battlefront 2, there is a good side to the microtransactions for some people. Having all these power boosters behind a steep paywall puts a pretty big limit to the number of players who will pay that money and reach that power level. In a competitive game, it allows more average players to feel like they can compete at a very high level, even though they don't necessarily have the skills, or the time to hone these skills.

@Adromelk 8 ай бұрын

Yes, they DO inherently make games worse. They remove valuable dev time from focusing on the core content of the game to be devoted to making cosmetics that should have already been in the game to begin with, which leads to incentivizing studios to cut content out to sell to the player at not just a "premium" but a laughing stock (diablo 4's $65 horse armor anyone?) And Also YES, COSMETICS IN GAMES DO MATTER. You are actively taking away the players ability to express themselves in a meaningful way which FURTHER incentivizes the devs to make any cosmetics that are free, noticeably worse in every-way from those in the shop or why would anyone buy the ones in the shop? Then there is the EASY examples of pay to win, i'm not even going to address that because it's a complete waste of time. Further adding to, Battle passes in games which have no business having one (Diablo 4 again is an example) once again, you're taking dev time away from expanding your game and OR fixing issues your community has pointed out to you, to further focus on increased monetization rather than facing the reality of capitalism which is Infinite growth, IS NOT POSSIBLE. Everything has an end. And there's nothing wrong with that, innovate or get left behind that's how this works. Evolve or pass away and be a relic. If these companies claim they can't be in business without these practices, then it sounds like they simply shouldn't be in business then. Also, side note. Lets not forget that they actively hire psychiatrists and those who constantly study the human brain to work with them to make their monetization loops more addicting, literally turning normal people into straight up addicts, gambling or whatever.