When microtransactions were announced I was ok with that because POE did it and it was fine. I have spent over $1000.00 dollars on microtransactions in D4 and the game hasn’t even been out for a year. I love the skins and want to continue to support the game by purchasing transactions. What I do with my money is my business, so I couldn’t care less what others will say about this. But for the love of all that is good, Why does a skin cost $25 dollars? You all keep pumping out the cosmetics left and right and I cannot afford to buy them all. I want to continue to support the cause for development of this game, but if I have to start drawing out money from my retirement funds the problem extends beyond just my issue for having to purchase these awesome skins. The blame starts to fall on you blizzard for being so greedy. Please keep the transactions micro and not macro. Skins should cost $5 dollars if you are gonna have microtransactions.
complains about the cost of shop stuff
proceeds to spend 1000 dollars in the shop
its people like you who cause blizzard to continue to make the prices so high. thats just idiotic. your post is absolutely hilarious.
To be fair, it’s because of you and others with your same spending habits. You’ve told them quite clearly that you’re willing to “buy the game again” for every three armor set purchases you make, or every five mount packages… you get the idea. Having the money to spend and finding the value proposition adequate are entirely different things. I have the money, but I’m NOT spending it. In another 5 years people will probably be spending $50 for an armor set while the base game price will still likely be $70. You’re dictating the value and allowing them to proceed despite the general loss of good will from other consumers. You cut them off or it just gets worse. Of course, it’ll probably keep getting worse even if you cut them off. 
But yeah, I’d buy them all if the maximum price per were something around $5. That’s my value cutoff though and they’ve decided that I’m unworthy of their shop because of that. Oh well, at least the Battle Pass is reasonable… 
Hmm brags about spending 1000s in the store and begs them to stop. This is why we cant have nice things
I am heavily disappointed by shop inside of this game. It is important to note, that Blizz promised before the release that they are going to release new transmogs with seasons and shop will be more for new colour variations, but items there are not going to be way cooler than standard t-mog in game.
Few months later and they start to release epic sets for all classes with nice thematics, cute little pets for all classes, even Lich King mount and all this in addition to battle pass and game, which we purchased for full price. How much of new t-mog sets we actually get outside from shop/battlepass?
I haven’t bought anything in the shop, just battle passes, but I am really sad that company I love, is going this direction.
Thank you and I appreciate your comment. This was to be constructive. I know my spending habits on these games are not sensible, almost the same as someone shooting up poison in their arms, or blazing it up in smoke. I’m just trying to put my opinion out there for blizzard to see that people want to spend money on their game because it is their recreational habit. However, this is not Heisenberg quality here. Why are skins so expensive is the question. You are are a prime example as to why they need to listen to the people, which they have been doing a better job of, I have to say. They would make more sales and make more people happier if they made it more affordable. Thank you again for your response. I figured I’d get hated on by the community, but I’m willing to put myself out there so we can get this greed issue resolved.
My question is how have you spent 1000 bucks on microtransactions in D4, when all the cosmetics you could currently buy amount to around 500+. Did you just keep buying platinum?
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Hey, I can appreciate you putting yourself out there. Maybe somebody out there in Blizzlandia will actually read this and think “Oh man, even our whales are really disappointed in our macrotransaction pricing!”, but I’m pretty inclined to doubt it. Once gaming went corporate and mainstream, all accountability seems to have gone out the window. The people in the boardroom don’t play the games or care about the communities of people that do. They really don’t appear to care about fostering good will anymore, just maximizing profits. As a consumer base, we seem addicted enough to the products to just ignore it, or if we do complain, we don’t actually change our behavior in response. It’s a pretty lamentable loss, but I don’t think these gaming giants are likely to change any time soon. So, in a rather sad admission, I’ll say that as long as some small fraction of customers can be preyed upon, I think these practices will continue. 
because morons are willing to pay that.
he’s almost there. he almost figured it out.
I think there is a lot more than 500 worth in the shop. at least from before season 1. they have phased out some sets and added more.
the current list on the shop, 4 for each class, 4 horses and 8 of the “for you” sets is well over a few hundred. now multiply that by quite a few with how many times they have rotated the stock and bam. I 100% believe he has spent over 1000. if he bought every single set, it would probably be close to 1500.
It’s worse than what I thought. $1799.11 is what I’ve spent on platinum to buy skins since the game came out. I’m quite ashamed. The do not list the full store of cosmetics they have sold or are selling. I’m starting to realize why…
Prove it
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Blizzard is not the problem, you are. Stop spending and they will lower prices for all of us. If you have not figured it out by now, I suggest you spend your retirement funds to educate yourself, might come handy later on so you can afford food instead of starving cause you spent 1000$ on skins.
Call me a moron, I don’t mind. I just want to bring awareness to blizzard that their greedy microtransactions are not benefiting them by targeting the whales for even more money. At some point even the whales say, ok, no more…
bro, you’re being milked, and not like one of those happy california cows, you’re being milked and they have your balls in a vice.
i doubt you will change habits. those are the hardest to change, and blizzard knows this, thats why they use plat to obfuscate how much people spend on skins, and thats why they dont show you a total amount of purchases in an easy to understand format.
maybe you will wake up and stop buying microtransactions, not just here, but everywhere. in diablo, in cod, in league, in every game by every company that makes a stupid amount of revenue and nickel and dimes you with cosmetics.
the only way this goes away is if you stop it yourself. you need to stop paying.
but again habits are hard to change, and i doubt you will. but i hope you do.
I understand the PoE supporter pack model. There was a time when PoE was a great game (still ok today, minus some of the garbage mechanics like Sanctum) and players were happy to buy $1000 supporter packs to help the indie company build an ARPG we all wanted (post D2:LOD). GGG was an incredible and fan intimate company. Chris Wilson et al. were all engaging wth the fanbase. After sale to Tencent (Chinese mega corp) in 2018, all things changed. Today, GGG is nothing but a corporate entity, pumping out MTX , supporter packs (from 1-2 in the old days to now 6 every 3-4 months + 4 annually) and garbage lazy pathetic embarrassing league mechanics. Like Blizzard, I’ve stopped supporting GGG or rather Tencent. There’s no point in all of this digital cr _ap, just wasteful. They don’t deserve our support. Speak with your wallet and quit spending money on these greedy souless corporate cess pools (think about BOBBY and that will close your wallet forever). Buy a game and enjoy it for the upfront entertainment cost. That is it.
Except for the main game that include the ultimate edition i have never spent on microtransactions until now, i might spend it on pets in the future
I appreciate the analogy and the sentiment. It’s more of a situation of me becoming aware of how much they are milking my bank account. I mostly work and don’t have time for video games honestly. When I do get to play, I can afford what I like. When I was younger I couldn’t afford things. Through hard work and motivation I am now in a situation that I can spend money how I want. I see a skin that looks cool, I purchase it, not even thinking about how much I’ve spent over time.
Now I’m becoming aware because I’m like, “Another skin to buy? This one is more expensive than the last one. What’s going on here?”
I’m hoping that they will take note that even the so called whales are taking notice of this greedy milking frenzy.
Sounds like the problem is you feeding the issue with $1000
If you want microtransactions to stop you don’t buy them…
You contributed to the problem in such a way gives you no ground to stand on in complaining about a system you’re supporting with your wallet.
Get some self control and stop buying cosmetics lol