Yup, microtransactions replaced season pass.

Who cares? The comments made Regarding why the season passed was not added had a lot to do with not fragmenting the community and locking them out of content that would hurt the game.

This likely means that any microtransactions might be cosmetic and overall irrelevant to the core experience.

You would have to consider I see no point to them saying they don't want to see the community locked out of content to only lock the community out of content and actually doesn't make any sense so I'm actually doubtful that the microtransaction is going to do exactly what they stated they didn't want to do in the first place.

Like how you could just play regular Street Fighter hard enough to get the characters in Super Street Fighter ....Oh wait

Or when games cost $37.20 in '95 and were complete! Oh wait, they never were, games back then were $60 as well, hmmm