The whales will buy it and satisfy the management who approved this piece of shit price
It’s honestly sad. The whales are just a different form of gambling addicts, the wasted money isn’t even a factor for some people.
I had a roommate who was absolutely a whale, and he would buy expensive skins in multiplayer games because they were expensive and he literally wanted to feel better than others who he thought couldn’t afford the skin. When in almost all situations it’s that they just weren’t idiots like him
Yeah your anecdote doesn’t catch the vast majority of people that this shit exploits though. Seriously, blaming the whales isn’t a useful argument to convince people this shit is cancer, it’s just a oh we can’t do anything about it cop-out.
Yeah I never blamed the whales or said it was ok. I just said he was dumb
Right sorry, it read differently to me.
How is this similar to gambling? I really do not see any parallels.
I guess they meant the addict part rather than the gambling part, unless this is some kind of loot-box situation
Oblivion’s Horse Armor dlc has more worth than this
Oblivion’s Horse Armor DLC also didn’t cost more than Oblivion either.
You can get the whole MCC on sale for less…
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Nah. Things like this aren’t meant to have a large appeal. It aims to expoilt the few customer with lack of financial control. ‘Just not buying’ doesn’t really hurt the company since it didn’t really cost anything in the first place. It is (like a scam) designed to filter out financially irresponsibile people and extract as much money as possible from them.
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You’d have to convince the diehards, casuals, and especially the ones that are willing (regardless of being able to) to spend money on whatever the company throws their way of this. Way, waaaay easier said than done, unfortunately.
Can’t speak for everyone else, but due to the company’s track record, i didn’t even look at Halo Infinite’s direction since it was announced. Then again, as soon as I heard the multiplayer was Free to Play and seperate from the campaign, yeah…not surprised they pulled something like this.
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As strange as the idea of regulations needing to come to the rescue might be to some, that’s a decent way for it to go…seriously, so many problems we deal with on the daily just need a bit of regulations for them to not be as out of control as they are (because, as you said, a LOT of people are stupid/ignorant. Or are taking advantage of said people). Now, this just needs to get as bad as lootboxes–which, IMO, it’s practically there, but maybe it needs to get worse, god forbid–for a legislator to look this way.
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Exec: People need to take the story of Halo srs, I’m told that means something to your silly game about space fascists fighting robots or whatever.
Dev: Okay, how about you unlock them after completing the campaign once?
Exec: I don’t understand. Where did we make money that way?
looks at final fantasy xiv’s cash shop >.>
Or frankly any online game, live service or not.
This model is not new or unusual and these prices aren’t out of line with industry comps.
I don’t really like it, but it’s barely news that game companies continue to adopt this monetization strategy.
Anime and mmos almost always seem to have their specific whales who WILL dress up their avatar.
Combined? 🫣😬
Bro it’s cosmetic who gives a fuck. Just play the game and buy the reasonably priced skins. Better yet, just don’t buy the skins at all. People are so fucking entitled holy shit.
