Quote Originally Posted by Rokke View Post
People defending micro transactions are why the gaming industry is in the sad state it is today. "Its optional!!!!" until it isn't and we all suffer for it.
It doesn't even make sense, either. The whole 'businesses exist to make money' angle. Yes, they do - but that doesn't mean that profit at any cost should be justified. There's a reason why things are regulated heavily - if you cut corners with food, it's a health and sanitation risk. If you cut corners with a paid service, it's going to lead to problems later down the road and dissatisfied customers. If valid complaints are ignored, it may not result in big losses immediately but every scandal is a risk of being the straw that breaks the camel's back for a number of players.

I'd point to CD Projekt as one of the better modern game development studios. The Witcher 3 was a huge, richly detailed game with no dodgy micro-transactions and the DLC was very meaty and well worth the money. Sadly, this is the exception rather than the rule - so many other games have launched with the 'bare bones' and then charge extra for content that should have been there to begin with. FFXV is a glaring example. Key events weren't present in-game...you had to pay money to unlock and play through them later.

Dissidia NT also released in a very bare bones manner. I don't mind spending money on video-games. I do, however, expect it to be handled tastefully - adding more and more optional services when already charging for a subscription fee actually makes it worse than a F2P MMO in some ways, since they tend to be designed to accommodate such an approach from the get go and don't offer up any illusions that they're something that they aren't.