So if slot machines printed out a sticker to everyone who played them, it would no longer be gambling because you got a prize? Yeah, no.
This is pointless because it's too broad and covers just about every piece of downloadable content, not just microtransactions. The ESRB is just trying to mask the issue and pretend they give a damn.
You can polish a turd, but it's gonna be a turd its whole life.
No, it was actually just garbage.
They are pretty fun Musou-style games. Way better than the actual Musou games these days.
I wasn't even aware the game contained content that would be censored. I mean it is Tony Taka, but still.
Atelier has a lot of good ideas packed into a game stuck two generations back. I wish they'd slow down on releases and spend more than 6 months developing each sequel.
You should get as many slots as your harddrive can hold. That's the way its been since the memory card days of PS1.
The idea is to push a little bit more and more until severe backlash, pull back a step and wait a few months for it to blow over before you start pushing a little bit more again. That's how we've gotten to the point we are now, and it's not going to stop.
It's $40, but it's still wrong to put MT in any retail game.
No online co-op = No buy. My friends don't live next door anymore and we all have jobs and/or families to attend to; we can't be making multiple round-trips just to play offline co-op games.
Monster Hunter would have been a breakout hit in the West sooner if it didn't get stuck on garbage handhelds and the Wii. I've played every single installment except two, including Japanese-only releases and its great to finally play this with a real controller on an actual console.
My guess is they don't want to advertise those graphics when only the 1% of buyers will even be able to hit those settings without massive framedrops. This is one thing PC enthusiasts seem to forget when they constantly complain about "downgrading." The average user doesn't spend a couple thousand on a PC, especially not with the current GPU prices being what they are; developers and publishers have to sell to both crowds, not just the enthusiasts.
"Microtransactions" and "Done right" only belong in the same sentence if they are separated by the words "are never." The amount of astroturfing this game is getting is astounding; Microsoft must be handing out the checks left and right trying to garner good press.
Are they charging money in order to play it? Then it's released.
Too bad the game just sucks. Would have barely been passable as a $19 DLC to MGSV but as a $40 stand-alone? Get outta here.
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Too bad it has an awful save system coupled with numerous game-crashing bugs or I'd be all over this. Toss the limited saves into an optional Ironman mode difficulty and I'd pick it up even prior to the bugfixes.
You just explained how free-to-play games make money. Good job, have a donut.
The number of consumers has gone up as well, genius.