Microtransactions could have been a success. Could.
EA got its hands on it, ran it in Marketplace and, frankly, they botched it.
A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.
Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.
15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.
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It's a step forward for Stop Killing Games.
i dont think its M$'s failure, or really that the marketplace has failed it more just some companies suck, like EA. There are good ones though like the oblivion stuff, i dont think anyone will tell you that oblivion feels lacking if you only buy the game and no addons found in the marketplace.
...but you can't say it's "failed", just because some developers are abusing it. Hell, EVERY good thing gets abused:
-telephones were ruined by telemarketers
-cellphones were ruined by spam, porn, and telemarketers
-the internet was ruined by scam artists, hackers, porn, spam, and forum noobs/fanboys
-television was ruined by MTV, Soaps, ER, Survivor and crappy game shows
-shop-from-home was ruined by QVC and Ron Popeil
The list goes on and on, if you want it to...but I choose to look at the positive side of those things. Microtransactions hasn't "failed"...MS just needs to lay down some better rules to govern the quality of the content.
only EA has failed.
No matter how you look at it, it failed miserably. People need to lay off buying from EA for a bit there company has gotten so far off creating games its not even fun playing there games anymore.
to the creator of the content to set the price and up to the consumer to buy the content. Microsoft is only there to help the consumer get to the content.