Microtransactions Are Here To Stay

Yeah, I remember a couple of years back I bought a foam pad thing for my bed and it said give it 48 hours (think that was it) to expand after shipping before you use and people are like “Just got this yesterday and last night I tried to sleep on it and it was hard.”

If I still had faith in humanity I would have lost it again.

To be fair, in D:I you are guaranteed to get a legendary gem…but there is no guarantee that it will be an upgrade or what you actually wanted.

sure they do, however, Microsoft also understands what it is like to be on the bad side of government. The predatory practices that Blizzard has been using is probably something Microsoft wants to stay far away from. I’m sure they don’t want to be involved in congressional hearings again.

uhh halo 5 req packs were a plague in that game. Good old “micro$oft” lol. First time i’ve ever typed that, had to find the dollar sign key!

I guess, but still if its something you already have and you get it again, thats the same as rolling zeros and losing anyway. These corporate lawyers who go in hardcore to deny that these games are similar to gambling only get away with it by legalese word mush. If they hadto speak like humans they’d stand no chance in countering the valid arguments against all these “games”

I think people need to stop obsessing over how people spend their money on entertainment.

There is no difference in paying money for beer, going to the movies or playing laser tag and spending money on WoW. They’'re all activities that equate to taking money and lighting it on fire.

I can’t get angry over “hurrr durr Bobby is buying a new yacht” the same way I would get angry that our government spent over $600 on a toilet seat.

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if its a chronic alcoholic theres everything wrong with them spending money on beer.

just like if its a person with a chronic gambling condition theres everything wronmg with telling them “just another roll and you’ll get that BiS item!”

My point has nothing to do with addiction.

And yet, we don’t expect the government to protect alcoholics from themselves…

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entertainment is a fixed thing. You buy a movie ticket, you go see the movie. Now you may not LIKE the movie but you still see it, you dont get half, you dont get 5 minutes you dont get the wrong movie, you dont get 5 different movies spliced together. Your dollars equal the product.

Your dollars dont necessarily mean anything in a pull the lever and see rng game machine. That is not entertainment.

That crowd can be ridiculous at times.

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I don’t think it would have went away regardless

Except it is which is why people love casinos.

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You’re right on this one, the smart way to get the most money is to have an obscene expensive yet very powerful power gain at start. This way the whales spend the big $ then after that period lower it forcing them to spend more to see the same results and giving the players who won’t spend much money at all a reason too spend money as it’s now cheaper and offers more.

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They have a whole team crunching numbers optimizing how far to go, I’m sure they know when it breaks even tbh. They are making more money now then when they had 11million players. With that in mind, the wow population could probably shrink another 50% before it hurt their profits. The minority whales spend so much money on the game their profits just eclipse the regular guys who give a measly $15 bucks a month.

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yes, casinos are places of gambling which does nothing good for society, it breaks lives and families and is ruinous to all but the suits who deploy the debt collectors. Literally nothing good comes from gambling, nothing at all. To be praising any video game developer for looking at casinos and going “yes” is horrendous. And yet here we have it.

Its all saved purely by lawyer armies and the word mush (and probably political donations) to authorities and politicians. it would be obliterated with nuclear fire from video games if actual humans had a say, not more suits in glass towers

Nah. it more like a “and then?!” scenario.

This person burned $500 on loot boxes. rabble rabble

Okay…why

to get 1.4588% more dps.

okay what’s dps? the first question many normal non gamers might have.

average person here is not seeing an issue since average person is not caring about DPS to start with…and is going so what we got here is wanting 1.4% more of it. They go okay…as they grab their phone to pretend to talk to someone as they back away.

casino’s if played right…can be fun times and something to do.

Back before it died in a fire really, I hit up Atlantic City. MY idea of a good day was to gamble enough to win enough to cover food, gas and tolls.

which I often did. An interesting day out with the gf (mall cruising dates get old), and I broke even.

got home no poorer than I left. awesome. And the casino’s could put up a pretty decent buffet. so the gf is going at least it wasn’t the same 5 food joints…again. AC was by a beach for walks and date like boardwalk stuff too, had that as well.

$0 on my end.

Yeah I meant Diablo Immoral is obscenely pay-to-win and it’s hurting the profits on that game. WoW has pretty reasonable microtransactions, this game does a good job of keeping profits flowing without impacting the actual game play

Also I doubt they’re making MORE money now than from the peak of 12 million subscribers… but even keeping it remotely close is impressive

But you won’t be the 1%!!!

how can you live with that. /sarcasm.

way too many take this hobby way too serious. that is the issue imo.

I say that having expensive hobbies irl. I do amateur photography. where yes I can pay more for glass. I pay more for Zeiss glass. it is worth it to me.

noting however…you don’t need to do this. apply the basics from the bible of photography (understanding exposure by Brian peterson) and you too can get great shots off even simple point and shoots or usually cheaper kit lens’ on consumer grade stuff. even cell phones. what kills these pics to me is no rules are used.

Framing and composition…you ain’t getting that waving a phone in the air like you just don’t care.