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Lokarin posted...

because that's what normal people do... play games for fun

Specifically, why play Immortal for fun when there are so many other games that offer the same or greater fun as the best Immortal has to offer and don't constantly hound you with reminders of how much better the game could be if you'd just pay them this little bit of extra money to solve that one problem you have (that they created solely for the sake of selling you the solution to)?

HornedLion posted...

$1,000 to achieve everything? Sure. That would be fair.

Holy fluctuating scrotums, no. Not unless "achieve everything" is a couple thousand hours of genuinely enjoyable content, and even then that's still not a great value given what else is out there. Over five years and two expansions, I spent roughly ($60 main game, 2*$40 expansions, ~36 months at $15/month) $680 on WoW, and for that I had somewhere in the realm of 250 days of /played time (6000 hours, though a non-trivial part of that would have been AFK and other non-gameplay time by the nature of the genre), and even that's really not the greatest value by modern standards with games like Minecraft offering comparable playtimes for a flat up-front price of less than $60. If I'm spending $1000 on a single game, that had better be one special game that keeps me playing (and enjoying myself) for years.

This is what I mean when I talk about "anchoring": A decade or two ago, the notion of spending $1000 in post-purchase monetization for a video game would have been unfathomable. Now, though, against the backdrop of an estimated $100,000 to max out a character, it seems downright reasonable, and it's been normalized by a predatory market where this sort of nonsense has become normal. It doesn't matter how normal it gets. This is - and always will be - bullshit.