Microtransactions

>Microtransactions
>Lootboxes

Who's the one to blame for this?

Western publishers/devs?
Consumers?

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in similar cases in the past I tend to find that it's both
It's a bad practice in most of its forms by devs, pretty clear. But people also want it, a lot of people, and if the devs don't do it for honor or any other reason they risk people not wanting their game.

Publishers and devs. The whole "vote for with your wallet" is a terrrible meme when 100 million normalfags are going against you not voting. And its not even voting. Its demand. What a load of crock.

Consumers of course. Publishers wouldn't pull that shit off if nobody would buy their cash grabs

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>Western publishers/devs?
The east has already long been through this. To the point where the government has stepped in and countries like Japan, China, and South Korea have special laws regarding things like loot boxes in video games. Western devs have just picked up notice and decided to cash in while they can.

Literally search for any cowtits. Same shit.

it's a hidden/delayed cost which gets people to spend more in the long run.

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The Japanese pioneered blind boxes (gachapon).

The Koreans pioneered F2P.

I tend to switch between the two, honestly.
Don't know what changes it but I'm only ever in the mood for one or the other.

The west should regulate this stuff. it's literally gambling

If we are going to be real here, consumers.

Understand that video game companies are companies, and like all companies in a capitalist environment, their only motivation is profit. That's the whole meaning of their existence, is to get as much profit as possible.

Given this, it is expected for them to pull scumbag douchy moves like this, and has been going on ever since the DEI Trading Company went public. All the shareholders care about is increasing their investment, otherwise they tank the company.

While I do not approve of this type of mentality, it is the reality of capitalism. The real offenders are the consumers, because it lies within their power to change or prevent such cancerous business practices, but they do not because they lack either the will or the motivation to do so. Consumers have proven themselves to be willfully blind sheep that will eagerly snap up any piece of shit you throw at them, regardless of quality or even functionality. This CONSISTENT acceptance of mediocrity has been a theme amongst consumers ever since the media began conspiring with other corporations to 'dumb down' the population, but that's a story for another time. While there are undoubted some intelligent consumers in the population, they are, like blacks, vastly outnumbered by the sheer numbers of unintelligent, ignorant niggers who support the kinds of business practices that screw everyone. While this is tragic, it does nothing to help the situation as a whole, as every demographic group is dictated and perceived by the actions of its majority - not it's minority. That's what we who demand that companies give a shit about their product and their customers are. The minority.

The problem is the 60 dollar price tag. When costs go up and the real price of games declining, devs have to find other ways to make money since they can't cover it all through single sales. So when you think about it, day 1 DLC, lootboxes and the likes let other people pay for your game!

>WESTERN publishers
No, it's very much the eastern devs that introduced the gacha concept to video games in general.

Blame the western publishers for applying it to PC and console games as opposed to mobile games though.

Microtransactions or lootboxes should only exist in multiplayer/f2p games

It sucks they are doing it for singleplayer games

No. They shouldnt exist at all.

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Consumers but more in a sense the casual mainstream consumer. Since most of them are after instant gratification and free market being a thing. Then vidya company's take advantage of it to make an easy buck off of them since the faggity "invisible hand" and shit makes it so most prominently in the mainstream. That loot box and micro transaction shit is as egregious as it fucking is now a days.

Publishers made preordering risky so I stopped doing that.

Then they made DLCs a 3-5 per game thing instead of 1 or 2 at best in rare occasions so I started waiting for special editions to get all the dlcs on the disc.

Now they've put loot boxes in games and there isn't a way around those other than not buying the game, I guess.

Lets be honest here, how much fun is a game like SoW going to be if they're lowkey trying to frustrate you enough that you buy loot boxes to advance?

I'm skipping it and so should you.

How is the air up there ?

How did the fact that the videogame industry is as big as it ever was fit into your "I'm to poor to publish games" theory?

It's just human greed and unregulated capitalism with no real purpose other then more greed.

Korea and mobile games.

Big video games cost ever more to make. This is a fact. Meanwhile, the retail price is fixed and even declining if you consider inflation. People gotta make their money somewhere.

I'll do you a favour and ignore your gamer communist outbursts.

I'd rather we go from hyper realistic to easier to make stylized graphics (Walking Dead, Borderlands) if it means that they can't use the "Millions of sales aren't enough to cover costs!" excuse.

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Seriously? You ignore the billions in revenue thanks to mobile and multiplayer entertainment ? They fucking print money while cashing in scrupulously on top of that with more and more devious tricks.

So buy the games that are made and priced to suit you then. I don't give a fuck. But we are at a time where we no longer can expect 60 dollars to be the cap on a video game retail price, unless it leaves room for a company to make more money from recurring sales. Would you accept $100 games? I'm not sure you would.

Again with the communism. Everyone who is in big video game business is here to make money and that's not a bad thing.

It's not a fact, they just do nothing to keep costs down. Maybe if game companies weren't having everyone work overtime for months, years, at a time they could keep a budget. Maybe if they didn't hire Hollywood celebs to voice characters they could keep budgets in check. Maybe if they came up with their own ideas instead of licensing popular IPs they could keep costs down.

Games don't cost more to make, incompetence just costs more than ever, and the industry is rife with it.

The brain-dead weeaboos that buy into these shitty business practices.

If you're not a dumb permavirgin faggot who uses his brain to think over his dick, vote with your wallet.

Sounds like you should start a video game company.

Listen, I'm not saying you have to buy or like the new asscreed or the mordor game or whatever. But the thing is that these games cost a shitload to make whether you like it or not and developers will look to cover costs. Maybe you're even right that it would be better to make cheaper and smaller games but that's a different argument.

Give me the startup money and I will.

Yeah, that's probably how you honestly think business works too.

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>The problem is the 60 dollar price tag.
I'm half convinced they stay at 60 dollars while whoring DLC to mask the real price of the game, like with digital currencies.

it's all thanks to that fat fuck gaben

>Would you accept $100 games?
Yes, because you could wait a few months then pick it up for $20, and have the complete game.

this

Players.
You can say it's the fault of the devs etc. but it's because people are stupid enough to actually buy them that they keep doing it.

Gaben only have 15$ price tag.
Free to play games must have a way to make money somehow.

You're so low down on the totem pole of profitable consumers that nobody cares what you think. You're almost at the level of someone who just pirates.

>PC ruins the entire industry

No surprise there.

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Consumers, all they have to do is show a little discipline and not buy the games with microtransactions and lootboxes in them. But they don't and publishers know this.

Consumers

Primarily children. Or manchildren. No difference actually

Good post

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The companies that make the games are ultimately the ones to blame, although consumers are bad, they're easily manipulated and make hilariously stupid financial decisions all the time.

It's up to a company to show better business practice. But honestly, while it's their responsibility, I don't see why they should be limited. It makes the user experience a bit shittier, but that's their right to do so.

Consumers. The most cancerous being brand loyalist who defend shit like paid online and "streamable service singleplayer games".

Yup