Agent_KaryoEA invents new microtransaction nightmare as it breaks paywall promise on Skate: rent a playable area for 24 hours or buy a premium pass, bucko
BaroqueWAn important detail is that this rental option is paid for in grind currency, not paid currency. Yes, “for now”.
Yeah, that’s just to normalise rentable levels. Once it has been begrudgingly accepted, there’ll be one that requires premium currency. Never buy EA.
You’ll still be able to buy them with ingame currency, but itll be days worth of farming or BEST VALUE 4.99.
They’ll still be able to hide behind an ethical “no mtx required” label.
Why days worth of farming? To help give the player a sense of “pride and accomplishment” of course.
Even just the idea of having to ‘grind’ for a virtual currency, it’s something that modern games do and it turns them into a job.
Yes, I said it.
Games that have long grind hours just to access basic resources.
These are really a second job sometimes, thinking of always online games like rust too.
I like my games to be on when I need them to be. To save an be able to go back to them whenever i feel like.
Earthbound had a commentary from the lead programmer and creator of the game in the same tone, that his game would be easy to save, quit and restart in a very casual way by design (ness’s dad personally calls you, the player, if the game runs for long enough, to basically tell you to go touch some grass).
I have found certain modern titles to be made for long hour daily marathons, else you’re not adavncing enough.
I emulate old stuff now.