Blizzard: willfully engage in a business model that manipulates players into constantly looking for the next thing, and structures their games around that model to drive sales of microtransaction
Blizzard’s Player Base: fills with people responding to that manipulation
Blizzard:
Players have no patience
/Looks at Baldur’s Gate 3 sales
Uh huh.
I’m ruining friendships by doing this, but idc. If a game is “Free to Play” but features a bunch of “Optional purchases.” That’s an immediate NO from me.
So many times this cycle has gone “Free to Play” but the game is only meaningfully playable and fun if you invest ??? money into it.
That’s a NO, and a BIG no.
How a paid for game can just switch over like this is beyond me. Bonus points if they drop support for an OS as well like rocket league.
How is Fall Guys only meaningful if you pay? You can literally only buy cosmetics, which I guess could be upsetting if you’re into fashion
I avoid F2P games like the plague now. Even if it was paid before. It’s just not ever worth it. Even if it’s not predatory now, the only way they can make money is through season passes, P2W mechanics, or ads/data selling. All unsustainable imo.
That’s called pay to win. Obvs free to play has to make money somehow, reputable companies accomplish this through cosmetics, etc. a bad actor here is Blizzard, who are selling skins for $20, battle passes for $10 , and they used to be free in OW 1 which many people paid for.
This of their own making. That keep using FOMO and then get angry that people start to expect that feeling.
Was anyone even asking for diablo to be a live game? Saying as politely as I can, we ran the same D2 campaign for YEARS and there was enough variety in just characters and play styles to keep us busy.
The bit of D3 I played seemed to come down to finding a cheese build, whirlwinding through increasingly large enemy hordes, and collecting a golden trinket at the end, one you’d never use because it didn’t match the meta.
Now the only people left playing want to “zone out” and mindlessly tear through blizz content faster than they can pump it out, blizzard did this to themselves.
