“Can’t wait for Jim sterling to make another stupid video banking on outrage culture for quick views.” – sad corporate defender on Reddit.
Capcom is pathetic. In a desperate grasp for more money on top of its $60 entry fee and deluxe edition crap, the publisher is stuffing microtransactions into Devil May Cry 5. Because all of the money is never enough money, and they think you’re stupid enough to believe all this “player choice” crap.
Oh, and for those saying previous rereleases had them? Yeah they did. This is being built from the ground up to include them.
We spend money on games so that we can play them, not so that we can not play them. Spending money to “save time” in the games makes absolutely no sense.
If it was option, then playing the game with a normal level progression completely uninfluenced by real money economy would be an option. If they really “cared” so much about people saving time and having an easy option… they just create an easy mode where stuff unlocks easier! This excuse is so stupid. Please… NEVER buy micro transactions. EVER. If you ever buy it, you justify their excuse and they will keep on doing crap like this.
“They did it before in the other game” isn’t a defence for doing this shitty thing either.
Having read a thread on the GameFAQs forum, well, seems there are still plenty out there using the old “but it’s optional!” argument.
How about cheat codes? If you want to give your players “choice” to cheat through your game, you can do this for free. But we all know what’s all this really about – milking the players’ wallets dry.
Remember back when cheat codes in single player games were just free?
Despite the microtransactions, here are some excerpt of some reviews from top websites:
IGN review : 9.5/10 –> Must BUY
‘fantastic graphics, amazing animations, cool story, lovely characters’
3 pages-long review, not a single word about the grindfest and the microtransactions.
Personal note : the website ran a 3-week advertising campaign for DMC5 , before release.
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Gamespot review : 9.5/10 –> GOTY material !
‘excellent graphics, very cool animations, great story, nice particle effects’
3 pages-long review, the reviewer doesn’t even mention gamers can buy moves and other things, with real money
Personal note : the reviewer was invited to a presentation before anyone else, received all the goodies, the collector edition, received 10 million free RED ORBS for his account
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POLYGON review : 10/10 –> GO BUY IT NOW
‘great lighting effects, cool graphics, nice framerate, nice story’
4 pages-long review, not a single word about the microtransactions in place, congratulates the developer for giving gamers plenty of free moves.
Personal note : the reviewer got a free xbox review copy(because polygon favorite numbers is 750’000), got a 2 weeks trip to japan, slept in a 5star hotel, paid by capcom, and all the team will be invited to a Suchi Armageddon, in a 3-stars restaurant, in the US.
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From the 50 million ign/gamespot/polygon subscribers, 10 million will visit the review page, will scroll down to check the score, will applaud the 9.5/10 scores, will congratulate the reviewers for their fantastic job and 200% unbiased review, and will GO BUY the game.
From those 10 millions, 8 millions will have to spend between 150 and 1’500 REAL DOLLARS, because they don’t want to waste over 180 hours of grind, just to earn some moves that will give them access to some hidden areas of the game.
From those 8 millions, there are 3 million 10-15yo gamers, who will ask dad to buy them a $50 Psn card, and even 200’000 7-10yo gamers, that managed to convince his dad to buy it, because the game features a great cool Super hero.
3 months later, Capcom announces they made 900 millions $ net. And they send an ALPHA invitation code for the next title.. to the 3 guys who made the reviews.
Annnnd of course the people on Game Faqs are defending these tooth and nail.
Microtransactions in a singleplayer-only game. What a time to be alive.
Buying the game is optional, I will go with the option of not buying it.
Ive seen so many people defending this shit on twitter… christ. Rip game industry
Pay $60 to play the game and another $50 to save time and not play it.
You should see how defenders of this are twisting themselves into knots defending this. It’s pathetic there was more outrage over Dante’s new look than this.
Know what else is optional? Showering. Its totally optional. But you’re gonna shower aren’t you, so pay up. This is called extortion, which is illegal in most countries. But like with lootboxes, its exploiting loopholes in laws designed to protect consumers from this exact same shit.
People defend this shit, im tired of this battle agains weak minded people, i get it on freemium phone games, but a full priced single player game does not have to do this and should not.
It’s morally ok to pirate games with Pay-to-win elements. Change my mind.
Remember when the dev of Monster Hunter World trashed the idea of gameplay effecting lootboxes and MT’s in Monster Hunter because they defeated the whole point of Monster Hunter, then it went on to become Capcom’s best selling game because customers are more willing to buy games from devs that aren’t total pieces of shit that insult there customers intelligence? Good times. Nice to see Capcom still refuses to learn from there games that actually sell good.
It’s a single player game. Let me ask you something then… If the director cares so much about giving the player the “choice to skip the grind” why not just make cheat codes that unlock everything like every game in the 90s? Remember spawning any vehicle type and weapons on gta? Why not do that?
Oh,right… Because you can’t make milk more money… Cheats are literally dlc nowadays…
Imagine playing Sims but everytime you typed “motherload” you had to pay 5 dollars… Fucking disgusting…
Jokes on them. I love grinding.
“NYEEEEEEH! IT’S PLAYER OPTIONAAAAAAAL!” And for the umpteenth time Jim explains clearly how that’s a load of donkey shit.