In 2017, the “AAA” game industry went all-in on loot boxes – microtransactions that emulate gambling to maximize ill-gotten gains. In 2018, new games aren’t using them and old games are scrubbing them. Are they done in the mainstream business, or are companies just biding their time?
Metal Gear Survive is here, and it’s worse than I expected. I thought they’d at least TRY and make it feel like Metal Gear, but instead it truly is a derivative, irritating, bog-standard survival game. There was so much rubbish to laugh at I forgot to even mention the microtransactions!
Sea of Thieves won’t have loot boxes, it’ll “only” have microtransactions. Seeing people applaud that feels a little… off. Source article: https://www.pcgamesn.com/sea-of-thieves/sea-of-thieves-pets-microtransactions Music: Undertale
There is a constant problem plaguing the game industry, if its spokespeople are to be believed. Games cost $60, and that price doesn’t work anymore! Weirdly enough, The Jimquisition agrees with this assessment. “AAA” games should indeed not cost $60 anymore, and they most certainly have outgrown it.
Electronic Arts apparently wants to keep me in work through the rest of the year. Here we are with EA Sports UFC 3 which, according to the beta reports, is revolving around microtransactions to an absurd degree. __ More info here: https://www.astutegaming.com/single-post/EASPORTSUFC3BETA
MUJO launched for Nintendo Switch, and despite being a mobile free-to-play game, Oink Games decided to charge ten bucks and STILL keep all the free-to-play microtransactions. A good reminder of just how scummy a lot of mobile developers can be, and have been for a long time.
The sad sorry saga of Star Wars Battlefront II is constantly shifting and rarely getting better. Here’s a “what’s gone down so far” video. With plenty of angry rambling from myself, of course.
Star Wars Battlefront 2’s beta has raised major concerns about microtransactions and loot boxes. We’re reaching the point where this disease has set in far too deep now.
Oh yes, it’s another video about Shadow of War! You know you love it. Allegations mount of a “true ending” hidden behind a giant ol’ grind… a grind that can of course be mitigated by purchasing some of that in-game currency and taking part in the game industry’s favorite form…
The Sixth Axis gave NBA 2K18 a 3/10 and 2K Games didn’t like it. Cry me a friggin’ river.
I have no idea what that headline means. All I know is that 2K Games really are a bunch of parasite pisstakers.
Sometimes, independent developers ask my advice on certain practices. I can only say what I like, but I’ll say that for free. Here are the clearest cut ways to avoid being a wanker in the freemium market, as one dev was curious to know. I think this happens to be…
