I’m well aware that it isn’t just Blizzard. I’ve said this many times over the past decade and every time you’ll get massive amounts of backlash for it from people who defend such tactics as merely being “incentives”. But an incentive does not go away if I can’t or don’t want to play at the time, it will wait for me to be there whenever I want.
I wasn’t trying to defend blizzard at all. Just saying that the big budget/multiplayer games are all kinda in a shit place.
And I agree using fomo is fucked up. But I do think it’s fair that they need money to continue to make content and upkeep servers. Though they’ve definitely gotten greedier and greedier.
I’m well aware that it isn’t just Blizzard. I’ve said this many times over the past decade and every time you’ll get massive amounts of backlash for it from people who defend such tactics as merely being “incentives”. But an incentive does not go away if I can’t or don’t want to play at the time, it will wait for me to be there whenever I want.
I wasn’t trying to defend blizzard at all. Just saying that the big budget/multiplayer games are all kinda in a shit place.
And I agree using fomo is fucked up. But I do think it’s fair that they need money to continue to make content and upkeep servers. Though they’ve definitely gotten greedier and greedier.
They make money from the box price of the game, they continue to update the game in the hopes of selling more boxes.
They do the same with expansions. Expansion sell two boxes. The original box and the expansion box.
The idea that micro transactions funds the development of the game is false industry propaganda. Micro transactions are purely for profit
There’s no way candy crush puts $10 billion a year into development cost. Same idea for Diablo.