Diablo 4's latest microtransaction controversy is a $30 portal recolor: "You can get Palworld for this price"

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Diablo 4's latest microtransaction controversy is a $30 portal recolor: "You can get Palworld for this price" - sh.itjust.works

I an so sick of the “just don’t buy it” response to people complaining about increasingly shitty practices. It’s like if someone pisses in the far side of the pool and other people decide they like the warmth so they tell you just to stay over on the far side - The pool is still tainted, and maybe next time the pool cleaners decide not to use chlorine…
I don’t understand how that comparison fits because somebody else buying the portal has literally no impact on my game.

It only affects you if they tell you. Otherwise it’s hidden to you, too, so the comparison is apt.

Similarly, the company focuses on these mocrottansaction features, which does affect where they spend time developing and also how they design and develop the game.

No because regardless of my knowledge of it or lack thereof I am still swimming in urine, which is a health risk and just gross as hell. This is a bad analogy.

Yep, and just like that, those who don’t partake in mocrottansactions are participating in a game that is tailored to mocrottansactions. How it looks, plays and feels are all affected.

Just like the pool, you can be blissfully unaware and knowing makes it decidedly worse, but it’s worse whether you know it or not.

I would argue that’s far more indirect and it’s not a 100% evil act to include microtransactions/skins.

Someone peeing in the pool, however gross, is uncaring not evil. I find it odd that rather than reconsider how you thought about it, you double down on accepting it.

I’m not sure if you’re aware, but every pool you’ve ever been in has pee. Every pool. Most people don’t even bother to wash their hands.

Dude you’re reaching

The smell people associate with a chlorine pool is actually the smell of the compound created by the chemical reaction of pool shock cleaner and human piss.

If it smells like classic pool? Its probably piss.

Extra credit for correctly using affect!!!
Effective education affects us all. Now if only my spell check didn’t correct to mocrottansactions, whatever that is.