It can, but definitely doesn't in this case. The systems in question in DD2 are identical to the first game. There's nothing in the game at all that encourages you to spend money or alerts you that you can. Frankly I wouldn't have even known these micro transactions existed if there wasn't so much online drama about it.
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So what games have you played in the last decade? This is the industry, you might as well complain about predatory concession prices at movie theaters. Is it shitty? Sure. But it's a trap for the ignorant, and frankly I can only go so far to try to protect people from throwing away their money on stupid things.
I mean, I certainly haven't noticed that. Even if you don't like your character, you can still easily buy the item in game. I've only been playing about 5 hours and can easily afford to change my character appearance 5 times over.
That ship sailed over a decade ago. You can look at the current gaming landscape and pretend this isn't already normalized. Compared to most AAA game releases, this is a step in the right direction.
That's literally the entire point of making the distinction between throwing away bottles with the cap and without. What did you think this was about?
Feel free to try it out yourself, but people bring this up for a reason. You are wildly underestimating the strength of thin plastics.
Technically true, but kinda pointless to bring up here. It's a thin layer that's vaporized during recycling. Not exactly comparable to a plastic bottle containing tens of thousands of times more plastic that's probably gonna sit in a landfill shedding plastic bits for the next 100,000 years.
A bottle full of air rolls when stepped on, with no cap they just squish flat.
Obviously, most of Mega's traffic is piracy, they have no interest in doing that. The point is it's an actual comparison instead of the nonsense you brought up.
Of course no individual site is going to singlehandedly stop criminal acts. Glad you agree it would be exactly as effective as I suggested.
The difficulty of getting ferrystones is by design, no different than the previous game. If you fast travel everywhere you're missing out on a lot of the events in the world. They're handy to use in certain situations, but there are other options to get around.