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How doesn’t it? Devs work on this bullshit instead of good content.

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Or it pays the bills so they can afford creating new content. This is how it always worked with the super cell games I played.

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I’m not saying it doesn’t contribute to their bottom line, but it’s not the devs who profit off of microtransactions. It’s the share holders. Game development has existed since the 70s, microtransactions have not. The primary people benefiting from microtransactions are shareholders. And if anything the work load on developers has gotten significantly worse and the quality of games has not gotten better.

Microtransactions suck.

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Games haven’t gotten better since the 70s? Lol if you honestly believed that, then micro transactions would be a complete non issue for you because there are countless games out there from before micro transactions, and without them at all, that you could spend a whole life playing.

But let’s be honest here, games have gotten better which is why you want to play the news ones.

I’ve played a lot of super cell games and never paid a dime. Years and years of fun across multiple games, with new content coming out all the time. All funded by micro transactions paid by others.

Now I don’t approve of the gambling aspect of some and p2w can be bad if done incorrectly. But cosmetic purchases that take little time to create and can generate tons of money so I don’t have to pay? Sign me up every fucking day for that. Please pay so I don’t have to.

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You paid the bills by purchasing the game.

Diablo isnt a f2p, you paid up front.

Youre paying a second time for less game than cheaper games give you.

This isnt poe.

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Youre paying

No, someone else is paying. Which is the beauty to me.

But is there anything missing in diablo 4 that you would have gotten in an earlier version of the game for free? I’m not a big fan of the series so I don’t have a good comparison.

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