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Now I’m mainly going to pick on black ops 4 here, but this is for any game that uses this system if it charges money for the base game.
Black Ops 4 is the most aggregiously microtransactioned game in video game history and that’s not to say there aren’t games out there with perhaps objectively worse micro transactions, some mobile games probably have worse, base stuff they sell for real money that’s worthless BUT, Black Ops 4 is a full priced game with a just under full priced season pass to boot, in American I believe that’s $110 base asking price for all base content.
THEN... it has this:
That is a battle pass system in which you can skip tiers for $1 a pop and a rotating cosmetic store which just got changes so there’s fewer items on longer rotations and now they’re going to add loot boxes back into the game...
The second picture is what really annoys me, it couldn’t be more obvious in its intention if it tried. It’s meant to foster what the game industry calls “player engagement”, it gets you logged in daily to check and creates an artificial sense of urgency to purchase, my firm belief is if it has to be this way, all cosmetic content should be in a catalogue, all items fully available and fairly priced, ideally they should never exist at all but this type of of crap in a full priced game is absolute bull**** and deserves far more crap than what Battlefront 2 got because this is far, far more aggregious and anyone who uses this system in a paid game are assholes.
Activision, I argue, is now the worse publisher in the industry because of stuff like this, even EA had the sense to back off a lot of stuff, now they just need to think about releasing a game that has actual quality, but Activision are by far now, the worst offenders and it can only keep getting worse until this house of cards collapses on them.
Black Ops 4 is the most aggregiously microtransactioned game in video game history and that’s not to say there aren’t games out there with perhaps objectively worse micro transactions, some mobile games probably have worse, base stuff they sell for real money that’s worthless BUT, Black Ops 4 is a full priced game with a just under full priced season pass to boot, in American I believe that’s $110 base asking price for all base content.
THEN... it has this:
That is a battle pass system in which you can skip tiers for $1 a pop and a rotating cosmetic store which just got changes so there’s fewer items on longer rotations and now they’re going to add loot boxes back into the game...
The second picture is what really annoys me, it couldn’t be more obvious in its intention if it tried. It’s meant to foster what the game industry calls “player engagement”, it gets you logged in daily to check and creates an artificial sense of urgency to purchase, my firm belief is if it has to be this way, all cosmetic content should be in a catalogue, all items fully available and fairly priced, ideally they should never exist at all but this type of of crap in a full priced game is absolute bull**** and deserves far more crap than what Battlefront 2 got because this is far, far more aggregious and anyone who uses this system in a paid game are assholes.
Activision, I argue, is now the worse publisher in the industry because of stuff like this, even EA had the sense to back off a lot of stuff, now they just need to think about releasing a game that has actual quality, but Activision are by far now, the worst offenders and it can only keep getting worse until this house of cards collapses on them.