I thought it was handled perfectly in helldivers 2. I’m not into the game very much but the way the handle rewards abs the season pass and all that should be the benchmark

People are junkies. They could raise the price to $100 for the standard version and still heavily monetize the game and people will still buy it and games writers will be quiet about it.

The pricing of Mt's are awful and overpriced but the biggest issue for me is the so little that they add to games, usually cosmetics, time savers and whatnot. I guess that Mt's should be only for dlc like expansion packs or more side missions and quests, but even this should be in the final product anyway...

Anymore? This white knighting is really tardy and moot. Microtransaction was a term reserved for mobile app (and early PC) market commerce. You know, 99 cent type stuff? (features, unlocks, add free etc). PC and Consoles adopted this as a standard and negated the terminology from the start in order to cash in on it is much as possible (multi-transactional, becuase as a major for-profit biz {based on peformance} they'd be crazy not too), so why u supprised? This is only been ureasonable for YEARS now. The solution is so simple. Don't buy it and when needed (sites like exputer), actually trash the bad content, based on the development costs for the content in REAL applicable indepth reviews, but that would require investigation and research, stuff exptuer only has opinions about.

I'm proud to say I've never in my entire gaming life spent a dime on dlc. And if it's announced before the games release I wait to buy it cheap! In other words f@k you for trying to nickel and dime gamers.

For something to be overpriced it must first have value.

Doesn't matter how large or small. Don't buy them. Easy.

I've never supported MTs in any game, and I won't be starting now. Those who spend real money on useless cosmetic crap in their games are the ones to blame for this. It's easy money for the developers. They'd offer shit on a stick, call it a kebab and people would buy it.

yea, especially if its story dlc. i hate that so much.

I saw the writing on the wall back in 2005. When micro-trash-actions first started I knew it was only going to snowball and get worse year on year.

I also knew gamers were too stupid to understand this and let it happen by constantly supporting scummy publishers, making games worse for everyone, even people against micro-trash-actions like myself.

Now we're stuck so many live service elements in single player games, endless grinding and filler, lower quality games intentionally designed to soak up your lifespan with trash entertainment, all in the name of coaxing dummies into spending more money in the built-in store.

With each passing year executives control the way games are made, taking control away from the passionate artists that actually desire to craft masterpieces. It'll be even worse next year, and the year after, and so on. What a shame.

The reality is that mtx are priced at what people will pay for them at. Until they stop selling, they'll keep rising.