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CD Projekt Red still 'don't see a place for microtransactions' in singleplayer games (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
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[–] ABCDE@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"Micro" always implies something very small, which is what was intended. Oblivion came out with its 400-point (£3.40?) cost for horse armour and received a lot of backlash. It wasn't micro, and was the beginning of all of this nonsense. Luckily that didn't result in it being harder to play but the writing was on the wall. I've fallen out of love with big titles, which I'll either play on game pass or pirate (I would buy them if they were worth it, or run well on my Mac if I really like them).

[–] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I don't know where the term micro came from because $20 skins are not a "microtransaction". Hell the $4 microcontrollers I just bought from Aliexpress weren't a microtransaction. "Micro" makes me think in the sub-$1 range or so.

[–] ABCDE@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

The idea was sold as being one whereby we would pay pennies/cents for a skin someone had designed, yet it's turned into dollars (tens or hundreds of) instead, with giants taking huge advantage of us.