Halo 5 Microtransactions

[owsf2000]

You remember how I said a few posts back when I was ranting about how developers have evolved (Devolved?) into using tricks to make people think the excessive DLC isn't so bad since technically "it's all free", as in, it can all be earned by some in-game currency system. As I mentioned, they do this to give themselves a talking point when people

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[kane_magus]

Seriously, I honestly cannot decide who disgusts me more in this scenario... the companies who do this kind of nauseating, terrible shit... or the stupid goddamn consumers who slurp it down the sewer pipe, thus making it possible and worthwhile for the companies to do so. Probably about 50/50, or maybe more like 55/45 in favor of hating the inane video game players who buy and defend it more. The main thing I hate about the companies who do it is that they're so disingenuous about it, making like it's somehow a good thing and they're somehow doing the game players a favor or some stupid fucking dogshit like that.

It's actually amazing how pissed off this shit still makes me, even to this day, after I've already completely checked out of the buying of modern video games who do this kind of shit. I can only imagine how enraged I'd be if I were still invested in this shit. I'd probably be dead of a heart attack or a stroke by this point. >_>;

I just sorely miss the days when I cared about buying new video games. Nowadays I only buy stuff that's maybe five years old or older, and then only when I see them for $5 or less on Steam or whatever. And even then, I still don't buy the shit that was infested/infected with this sort of crud and muck. The only remotely new shit I buy is indie stuff that starts at more reasonably cheap prices already, and isn't (yet) tainted with any of the above such Jurassic Park piles of shit. Thing is, even the indies are starting to get into this kind of canine feces as well. It's like, if the big AAA boys can do it and get away with it, then why can't they, right? Probably sooner rather than later, the day will come when I'll just be done with video games altogether, period, full stop, end of line. And I don't look forward to that day. That's part of the reason why I hope an industry crash happens soon, and the sooner the better, such that the dregs of the video game industry like this all gets washed away.

[kane_magus]

"The main thing I hate about the companies who do it is that they're so disingenuous about it, making like it's somehow a good thing and they're somehow doing the game players a favor or some stupid fucking dogshit like that."
But then, that, of course, is precisely why it's such an effective scam in the first place, because of all the dimwits who actually swallow that shit and believe it.

Well, it's either that, or they're among those who mistakenly believe that they're "supporting the industry" by buying this kind of fecal matter, like they're some kind of martyr "taking one for the team" or whatever dumb shit, because they're too weak-willed to avoid paying real money for ephemeral, ethereal dung. Like if they didn't buy this shit, then the video game industry would collapse or someth-... oh, wait, at this point, the video game industry almost assuredly would collapse if they stopped buying this shit, so maybe they really are "supporting the industry" by buying this shit. If only the industry that they were supporting hadn't evolved into nothing more than blatant scamming, then maybe that'd actually be the good thing that these people incorrectly think it is.