Hot on the heels of a backlash against Diablo 4 portal reskins that cost the same as Palworld comes a new microtransaction horror: a horse bundle that costs more than Diablo 4 itself.
There IS a way to get this out of games, but it won’t happen. People would actually need to NOT purchase things from companies that display this behaviour, the games included.
You’d like to think that, but the entire industry is currently collapsing in upon itself because they’ve spent so long doubling and tripling down on things that nobody was buying already. They won’t even think twice about driving beloved studios off a cliff in the pursuit of their corporate wet dreams.
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There IS a way to get this out of games, but it won’t happen. People would actually need to NOT purchase things from companies that display this behaviour, the games included.
They didn’t get me this time
Systemic problems need systemic solutions.
You’d like to think that, but the entire industry is currently collapsing in upon itself because they’ve spent so long doubling and tripling down on things that nobody was buying already. They won’t even think twice about driving beloved studios off a cliff in the pursuit of their corporate wet dreams.
I wish I could not buy something twice.