Thoughts on games and buying content in it with actual money?

[Izumiblu]

Depends on how you view it.

Value is a difficult thing to determine in the software world from a consumer standpoint... and it is usually the ends justify the means.

I personally don't care so long as you dont have to purchase additional items to be able to get the valure of the game. Anything offered above that it is reasonable to offer a market that sells additional things and let the gamer decide how they want to participate.

However, when you get to the point that you have to purchase additional items to be able to complete the game you paid full market price for, then that is where i would draw the line.

Saying that a game developer cannot offer additional game play, art, items, upgrades unless they are free places an unnecessary restriction around the market and will lead to lower quality offerings.

But, there absolutely must be the right balance nd people should vote with their wallets and offer feedback to the game devs when they step out of bounds because it is a practice that can be abused.

[vonasaurus]

ea is the worst~ i have been a simmer since i was 14 years old, meaning that i have been with the franchise for 16 years.

i think of the sims 2 base game; ditto ts3 and 4. yes, they all have expansions and stuff packs (plus the online store, which i probably own close to 3/4 of)... but both base games + eps have become more and more anemic with each iteration.

[BellePepper]

They do it because they can make more on microtransactions than they can by just selling the game with all the features it *should* include eg. The Sims 4 and their pool expansion pack nonsense.

[ncannon18]

Yes, I hate it big time because totally ruins the fun out of every single game that has them. And it's another ways to allure people into having extra exclusive expansion packs for those games that people buy these days. The video game companies always worry about their money, a whole lot more than what the costumers want. Because if we had it our way then those developers would think that we are freeloaders & will take full advantage of them. Unfortunately, they are doing it to all of us & they only see the positive in this, because it helps them a whole lot more than us when it comes to money. This whole video game is like a full monopoly game where you as a costumer with money and video game developers with the games make a trade to see if both of you would make a fair trade. And if 1 or both people doesn't have an agreement on something, then no one gets anything at all. In other words: if the trade between money and video games doesn't work, then the deal is off for both parties of the trade.

[Unit1]

These games are not quality games, so I know that feel.
It was simply monetized and I do not support such systems.

It all began with expansion packs. Then came the DLCs. Then came the micro transactions and pay2win.
Now we get only indie games, haha simulators and simply shitty games.

Which is why I like the old games not past the year 2007 and games from 1994!

[LadyTerror]

Yep. Hate it

[kambo_trick3y]

I'm okay with it really, I've always been the "make do" type. Doesn't matter what tools they give me, when you got game like mine, you can make do without any upgrades!

XD

But honestly, I'm just too busy being amazed at all the high quality, free to play games out there now (League of Legends, Team Fortress, Planetside, etc). What an age we live in!

[Kapakani]

Ugh, yeah that's like every game these days. You get basically an unfinished version of a game so that they can add in the finishing parts of a game with "DLC" for $15-$20.

It's madness!! Games already burn you out of $60-$80 now. And now they want even MORE😓. My poor wallet.

[Phoenix98]

Yeah I hate that i miss the old days when the only things you had to buy were cosmetics or something. Now a days it's like hey lets take this full game and cut it up into tiny bite sized pieces and sell it to the players piece by piece for 19.99... they'll never catch on.

Luckily not all games and or companies do this.

[ShortCircuit]

If you think about it, micro-transactions are actually in the consumer's favor. Why? You only have to pay for the things you actually want. Paying full price for a game is the same as paying for every micro transaction in it, which is pretty stupid considering you're only gonna use less than half of the stuff. You're actually saving money this way.

The only downside is that it makes you feel silly for having to say "I bought a purely cosmetic purple tophat for a dollar" compared to saying "i bought a video game for $60", despite the fact that you are actually saving $59.

[John_Doesnt]

What are you talking about youngster? This has kept the price of games down. You don't know/remember, but Donkey Kong Country for the SNES cost about $100. It wasn't cheap or $20. The only $20 game you could find back then was at some creepy guy's garage sale and it was usually missing the box and half busted.
Games are actually cheaper if you account for inflation. The price of an N64 game was $50 back in the day.

[blondfrog]

Yeah I know how you feel. I miss those good old days too. Its just for marketing its a way for them to make more money. And obviously its working since there are people out there willing to pay for it. Its like for the older consoles as well like the xbox 360 halo 3 was like that. You'd buy the game and in order to further play the other types of ranked games online you had download the extra map packs with microsoft points which costed real money.

[coolbreeze]

Its because you need money to do everything. Including playing a game that is not real. True everything should be included. But not with a lot of these new games. Gotta spend real money to buy things to unlock stuff, etc

[Hans222]

Oh yeah I call that criminal marketing sis... you advertise yourself as "for free" and once you're a member you have to start paying for everything that is useful on the site.
I generally immediately leave such sites. Wanna have nothing to do with such bastards 8) 8)

[foighveoirgho]

p2w. Luckily, I have a power saver and a cheat engine to get around those. 20 dollars to unlock DLC for every game? Or 20 dollars for every game and it's legal? Plus, I get to do runs with particular items and challenges and things like that, which just add even more to the game play. This one time for pokemon Pearl, I did a bidoof run, (only bidoof, no evolving it or anything) except for one had a great move set, like hyper beam, thunder, blizzard, etc.

[peachblossomluck]

Not even once. There should be a commercial with some crackheads with controllers in their hands crying in an abandoned building like: "I used to be the prom queen."

[mr-smartguy]

I don't see a problem with it. If it is my money I have a right to use it on whatever I want. It is just another addiction like alcohol or ciggarates, which are much more dangerous and self-destructive than spending thousands of dollars on fu king gacha and not getting a single fu king rare!!! true story.

[Doffydood]

I remember the old days: when you bought a game, you were paying for 100% of it ;-;
To be fair, that still happens in many games- some are unashamed money grabbers, and some let you pay for skins/cosmetics, etc.

[martyfellow]

Marketing tricks are universal online. There's always a basic version but then when that gets boring they offer an upgrade.. at a price.
It's just like a lot of relationships these days.

[Anonymous]

That's why I don't like "freemeium" games. I do remember the good old days when you had to earn stuff in games to unlock it. Mortal Kombat games still have that, but many games are getting to where it is "pay to win" in multiplayer. That's so lame.

[greycadillacs]

I know what you mean. Ugh it sucks. Or how about when five different retailers all offer five different exclusive things or content if you buy from them? You can never collect it all or have a complete game that way

[RJGraveyTrain]

Yup, it's a piss off. Expansions and all of that stuff can cost damn near the same amount as a game.

[singlebee]

Well I play cracked games mostly... But subsumed I purchase some rare games like battlefield 4 and just cuase 3 and yeaa all those downloadable content and shit is crazy !

[BronzedAdonis]

no greater crime against humanity

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[Raymond_Reddington]

Dlc is cool when the content and the price is good.
The two dlc packs for the witcher 3 were amazing. Somuch content for so little money.