That's not at all good

Ofcourse it can. This IS the world where the majority of consumers agreed on not paying attention of being ripped off, after all.
No buy from me. Now I have a perfectly justified reason to pirate this "game" (quotation marks are mostly here because anything having microtransactions or over-abundance of DLC are not games per se, they are "services".)

As much as I like my AAA releases microtransaction free, if they stick to skins , I won't really mind. It's still a sad state of affairs, seeing more and more big titles go for this approach, though. The first game did well enough without them.

Lol, pass.

Mircotransactions are just an affect of having games not being adjusted for inflation. Its not that people are against them its just this is the best way for a dev to recoupe costs long term, without forcibly raising prices or making budget cuts. More importantly it provides revenue long term without having to consistently put out high effort brief interest content like expansions and things that are quickly forgotten after a week.

These subscription services are filled with $20 games that go on sale for $10 often.

Harry potter could be a great game to use it. The students and the enemies could each have their own seperate tree.

It was a good idea but with of without it you need to make a good game first

Warner bros is so full of it. Usually corporations cry about piracy but this was simply due to the second hand market and they don’t t like that.

It was a neat idea, but the game is packed with a lot of repetitive filler grindy stuff, clearly designed to make the game last longer. The sequel went overboard, with the filler as well, in order to nudge players towards micro-trash-actions, which were eventually dropped.

Need a podcast with nothing but stories like this

I am in absolute agreement with the OP 👌

I hate when I see single player games and see people begging for multi-player. Jeez guys it don't need to be on every game. Latest one I seen was atomic heart.

Multiplayer or even co-op

If it was always a single player game then that's how it is

It's a trend that never really went away. For me multiplayer in a primarily SP focused game was an excuse for DLC. Then there's the mentality gamers had that adding multiplayer makes a game worth the price, otherwise it should be half price for half a game. A way of thinking devs reassured when they started adding multiplayer to their sequels. We see the same with multiplayer focused games getting SP in their sequels.

I remember when certain single player games had them as included optional modes that was played on the couch. Had brilliant times with Syphon Filter and Golden Eye. Me and my bro used to used to fight over who would play as Gabe even though it was technically just a skin. Good times.