But is the overall market growing? What I’d love to know is if less people are playing non-MTX games now than before, or if we’re just getting more people staying to play games and they happen to be drawn to MTX games, ie. a broader target market, in the same way we saw mobile gaming explode with people who never played games before.
This really surprises me. I’d expect this from mobile games. I play exclusively on PC, and I’ve never even been offered to participate in a micro transaction. Maybe I’m just playing the wrong (right?) games?
Because you’re playing the right games. When you come across these type of games its so jarring. You open the game and the first thing you see is an ad then a link to the store.
Not sure entirely how to feel about this. It incentives genuinely worse experiences, but it also means that as someone who never pays for any micro transaction, my gaming can be subsidized by those who do. That said, it’s also one of the reasons that I’ve moved away from most games where micro transactions are a major element, and the skins in games like CoD are pretty obnoxious
I don’t even mind microtransactions, but microtransactions DO NOT EXIST
$10 for a skin is not a MICRO transactions, that’s just a transaction.
The entire game costs $60 but ONE skin out of the thirty that already available or whatever is somehow $10? Why do people pay that? Why would they ever bother making a new game when they can design 6 new skins instead?
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But is the overall market growing? What I’d love to know is if less people are playing non-MTX games now than before, or if we’re just getting more people staying to play games and they happen to be drawn to MTX games, ie. a broader target market, in the same way we saw mobile gaming explode with people who never played games before.
Thanks gamers!
This really surprises me. I’d expect this from mobile games. I play exclusively on PC, and I’ve never even been offered to participate in a micro transaction. Maybe I’m just playing the wrong (right?) games?
Because you’re playing the right games. When you come across these type of games its so jarring. You open the game and the first thing you see is an ad then a link to the store.
Thank you MapleStory and FarmVille for showing us the way, I guess.
Don’t forget the Horse Armor DLC
Remember when it used to only cost 2.99…
I want to see the breakdown of spending per user.
In the mobile games space, like 90% of some games’ revenue comes from a handful of people who drop tens of thousands of dollars.
NGL, I spent more on Destiny 2 crap I’ll never use than actual new games, and I’m depressed by this fact.
She said she wanted to express herself, so I gave her a thumbs up
If you think this armor is impressive, wait until you see me out of it.
PDF link of the report
This is bad news for the future of gaming. Not a surprise, but bad news.
Yup but at the same time this only happens because gamers allow it to.
I’ve bought very few microtransactions and the most satisfying was the Delorean Time Machine from Back to the Future in Rocket League
The future is dumb. We were promised jetpacks and all we got was microtransactions and microplastic.
Dude, we have microplastics in our balls. That can’t be good, right?
Not unless you’re a Ken doll
Ken dolls with realistic genitals would probably sell
I’m surprised it isn’t higher.
Gross
Not sure entirely how to feel about this. It incentives genuinely worse experiences, but it also means that as someone who never pays for any micro transaction, my gaming can be subsidized by those who do. That said, it’s also one of the reasons that I’ve moved away from most games where micro transactions are a major element, and the skins in games like CoD are pretty obnoxious
Fuck everyone who bought this shit and enabled this.
Agreed. I blame the consumers more than the companies.
I don’t even mind microtransactions, but microtransactions DO NOT EXIST
$10 for a skin is not a MICRO transactions, that’s just a transaction.
The entire game costs $60 but ONE skin out of the thirty that already available or whatever is somehow $10? Why do people pay that? Why would they ever bother making a new game when they can design 6 new skins instead?
The money isint micro, the value of what you’re getting is
Because people are dumb and have no impulse control. Companies exploit that.