Current Events > Remember when horse armor DLC was a big deal

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Now nobody bats an eye to an entire store of Microtransactions

did people really freak out about that?

I straight get roasted by Genshin players when I complain about how much power is locked behind money.

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PowerOats posted...

did people really freak out about that?

Yeah

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PowerOats posted...

did people really freak out about that?

Yes.

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Squall28 posted...

I straight get roasted by Genshin players when I complain about how much power is locked behind money.

I remember listening to a podcast where a guy talked about playing Genshin for a bit and rolled $100 to get a character. And when he complained to the community, they were like "only $100? You're shouldn't be complaining about that! That's so little compared to the odds!" and he was like what the actual fuck >_>

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PowerOats posted...

did people really freak out about that?

If by freak out you mean made lots and lots of jokes, then yes

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It ushered in microtransactions and dlc for games

To be fair, a lot of people are furious at Microtransactions, lootboxes and DLC practices

But a minority of people keep buying them so games keep having them

That's capitalism.

The industry even has a term for them, "Whales."

Doesn't matter if only 25,000 of your 1,000,000 userbase are buying that shit. If 25,000 people are doing it, some of which are spending 4/5 figuresa year on it. It's lucrative.

When you see those shitty games that charge you $25 to have your gun in blue, how many people do you really think are buying it?

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NeonOctopus posted...

I remember listening to a podcast where a guy talked about playing Genshin for a bit and rolled $100 to get a character. And when he complained to the community, they were like "only $100? You're shouldn't be complaining about that!" and he was like what the actual fuck >_>

Yeah that community's view on money is so different from what I grew up with. You can spend hundreds or thousands, and you're only a "dolphin." You're not a whale unless you spend tens of thousands.

They'll also get very literal with what "pay 2 win" means. For as long as I can remember, pay 2 win means paying for performance. If the money you spend makes your character better from a gameplay perspective, it's pay to win.

Their argument is you can clear content without paying. Yeah you can, but it's not the OP bullshit that I see them do. Enemies just get put in a blender when they play. Then they have the nerve to complain the game is too easy.

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PowerOats posted...

did people really freak out about that?

Yeah, really.

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UnfairRepresent posted...

But a minority of people keep buying them so games keep having them

a bigger minority even go on e-crusades to defend or jusify getting fucked over. those are the people that ruin it for consumers.

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It was BS then, and it still is now.

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PowerOats posted...

did people really freak out about that?

Oh yea

Its still ridiculous when you think about it I think at the time it was like 20 bucks to buy the horse armor

Those were the days.

Horse Armour DLC is still bullshit, but we do bigger bullshit nowadays, haha.

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We've been desensitized to it because we've faced even worst dlc practices now.

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It's funny. Now people defend that kind of shit. If this happened now, you'd get "Well it's not that important!", "It's mostly cosmetic", "lol just get a job", "You don't have to buy it", etc.

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NeonOctopus posted...

I remember listening to a podcast where a guy talked about playing Genshin for a bit and rolled $100 to get a character. And when he complained to the community, they were like "only $100? You're shouldn't be complaining about that! That's so little compared to the odds!" and he was like what the actual fuck >_>

Gacha communities are fucked. There's only 2 people. F2P and Whales. No one gives a shit about the guy who only wants to spend like $20 or so here and there.

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You see, we live in a society

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Tyranthraxus posted...

Gacha communities are fucked. There's only 2 people. F2P and Whales. No one gives a shit about the guy who only wants to spend like $20 or so here and there.

Don't play them.

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Frizzurd posted...

Don't play them.

Or alternatively play them and just don't spend time socializing with reddit about spending habits.

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I feel that Nintendo is the only AAA dev that does DLC right, and even then it's questionable

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Cosmetic-only microtransactions are fine by me. If people want to give their horse shiny armor or to have their gun covered in bacon, that doesn't bother me at all.

But fuck random lootboxes, and fuck putting things that actually change the game or give an advantage behind paywalls. That shit needs to die, or at least stay isolated to shitty free-to-play waifu gachas and not $60 AAA titles.
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Southernfatman posted...

It's funny. Now people defend that kind of shit. If this happened now, you'd get "Well it's not that important!", "It's mostly cosmetic", "lol just get a job", "You don't have to buy it", etc.

Hey now, horse armour wasn't cosmetic, it made the best horse in the game worse.

I remember when one of the Fable games put black dye behind a microtransaction

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It's hard to believe that the stupid horse armor was what started microtransactions as we know them.

and according to todd howard it was a freaking joke but people still bought it at that insane price

TheDurinator posted...

It's hard to believe that the stupid horse armor was what started microtransactions as we know them.

Ehh.... The real thing that started it was TF2 hats

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CouldBeAnAlt posted...

I remember when one of the Fable games put black dye behind a microtransaction

Don't forget the original mobile port of Mega Man X did this:


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The problem was mods on PC were already far better and we had literal horse fucking armor in the game from mods

Hayame Zero posted...

Don't forget the original mobile port of Mega Man X did this:

At that point it's like "why even play the game?"

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CADE FOSTER posted...

It ushered in microtransactions and dlc for games

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