You don’t seem to realize what my problem is, @jmk1999 . I don’t mind and I even appreciate having microtransactions available. It’s their purpose that matters.
I don’t want to incentivize paying for convenience. As I said, it’s a slippery slope. In the long run games will become grindier, more boring if you don’t pay.
Cosmetic stuff is fine. I probably own 90% of the bazaar items on this game. I just don’t buy things that I realy don’t like.
However, paying for convenience is a red line for me. I don’t have many when it comes to gaming, but this is one of them. So is p2w. If we don’t put our money where our mouth is, we can’t complain afterwards.
A while back this game was running so poorly that I unistalled it and didn’t buy anything. Then performance improved enough for me to play it again and I started buying stuff again.
This is really simple. You either stick to your convictions or you don’t. Not giving money to companies that implement paying for convenience is one of those convictions. At least not paying full price on release. These things are important signals. The more people do it, the less these practices will be adopted. I might buy the game later on, but I won’t buy it unless it is on sale. Why? Not because of the price, but to send a signal to the company: this type of MTs is a bad idea.
You saying the game is good even makes me more sad because of my decision. Devs probably did a good job, but I won’t compensate their greedy managers.
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