Bebe
Full Member
It's hard to disagree with your point that publishers are testing the market to see what kind of bs they can pull and have consumers accept. The $30 or whatever it was 3 day early access for Starfield last year stood out to me for the same reason.Of course it's weird you've taken it personally. The discussion was about DD2 so it's not at all odd that the microtransactions in other games aren't being discussed. You literally said I was spreading misinformation about it, only to completely misrepresent what the fast-travel DLC was yourself.
I actually agree that the uproar is a bit much, but that's because a) it's Capcom and it's par for the course for them, and b) it's detracting from the massive issues relating to optimisation on PC, not because microtransactions suddenly aren't scummy.
People shouldn't be passive to this stuff though, because it's absolutely them seeing how much they can get away with.
I find myself having trouble being too hard on this game because, as a game, it seems like a rejection of many other modern practices in gaming that really annoy me. I'm not saying this is a reason to ignore the obnoxious microtransactions, just that my tiny neanderthal brain has difficulty holding both feelings simultaneously.