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]

They're up to Halo 5 now? Huh. How 'bout that. And now I'ma go back to not giving a single shit about Halo, beyond the two or three hours I played into the single player campaign of the first game, several years ago, before I sold the whole lot along with everything else (with Halo 2 and Halo 3 still being in shrinkwrap).

And, yeah, scummy dogshit like what you and Angry Joe describe here is definitely a way to make me anti-interested in ever giving this series (or any other game/series that does similar scummy dogshit) another go at any point, even if I actually still owned a console on which it could be played (and even if it came out on PC, I still wouldn't buy it, even at a 90% off $5 Steam sale). Joe's description of the blind, militant acceptance and defense of this abject, scuzzy horseshit is exactly what is wrong with the modern video game "community," and has been what was wrong with the modern video game "community" for at least a decade and a half now. That is precisely why things have gotten to be as deplorably

[owsf2000]

"The ability to update a game post release was a great step forward in gaming possibility, but a huge step back in gaming reality."

That's the first comment I see under Joe's video, which pretty much sums up EVERYTHING wrong with modern gaming.

And of course one of the first responses to him was a sarcastic reply about how the guy obviously didn't like Halo 5. (Worded in such a way to get that unspoken 'yer an old hasbeen shitbag out of touch with REAL gamers' impression across. - at least that's how it appeared to me.)

[kane_magus]

I didn't see any comments at all, because I have comments on Youtube hidden. I disabled that briefly to see the comment you were talking about (and which I definitely agree with), but then I made the terrible, terrible mistake of scrolling down past that to look at some of the other comments, which never fails to remind me why I installed that add-on in the first place. ¬_¬

In response to the "didn't like Halo 5" asshat, if it were me he'd been responding to, I would have replied that no, indeed, I do not like Halo 5, nor do I like (nor will I buy) any game that does bullshit like this. If that makes me a "has-been" then so fucking be it, and if he wants to waste all of his money and/or time on pointless microtransaction bullshit, then it sucks to be him I guess. "A fool and his money are soon parted," and all that. He is the problem in this situation, not me

[owsf2000]

Yeah, and it seems most of the time the comments won't load for me myself anyway - and often times I prefer it that way honestly. I do glance at a couple of comments once in a blue moon, such as I did today. Literally a couple.

Here's another Angry Joe rant over a "Freemium" game (the pay to win shit). Not really worth it's own post/rant imo given it's 5 months old. But it's pretty much the same kinda shit. Only difference between this and Halo is that Halo is a AAA release. This is a free to play pos that's designed to yank your cash. Other than the level of game development... no difference.

*addition* In particular I'd like to point out this comment in that video, that was only 5 months ago. Only 5 months, and it's already happening. And it's been happening to AAA games before Halo 5 over the last couple of months.