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Team Fortress 2 petition calls for microtransaction boycott to put pressure on Valve (www.pcgamesn.com)
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[–] gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

TF2 didn't even have microtransactions until 2010, and it both pretty much invented them and let you trade/sell them (albeit for steam bucks), so there are definitely worse games you could be throwing money at.

I bought the Orange Box the day it came out, and when I stopped playing TF2 a decade ago I sold all my items (which I mostly got from buying other games that I would have bought anyway), and I ended up with more steam money than I had ever actually spent on TF2 directly.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

TF2 didn’t even have microtransactions until 2010, and it both pretty much invented them

Many years ago, when I still read printed video game magazines, there was a story about microtransactions in Korean or Chinese games. I clearly remember how baffled I was after learning of that super weird and stupid concept.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 5 points 4 months ago

My first exposure was when DDO went from subscription model to free-to-play but with microtransactions in 09.

At the time I thought it was a great idea as it ended up cheaper to sustain for me than paying monthly (since many dungeons were skippable and you could also earn cash shop currency by grinding) which led me to have a confusingly positive association with the concept of microtransactions for quite a while.