Comment on This indie dev (Indie RPG Inkbound) is removing all microtransactions after noting that "player sentiment is trending against" them

blazera@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Glide@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, the headline is just awful. The Inkbound Dec notes that they’re removing all in-game microtransactions. The goal is to move away from pressuring you to spend money on microtransactions as you play, and keep them where they belong: on the store page.

  The devs are doing exactly what they said. The headline is either click-bait, or a result of awful reading comprehension.

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• Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s just cosmetics, I don’t see the problem. They have to make money in some way or another.

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  • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Didnt we used to do that by selling the game tho?

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    • AnonTwo@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We also didn't expect ongoing development of games after they were shipped though, aside from bug fixes (sometimes even then )

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      • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        But… Like… Did we ask for that? If you cant afford to keep developing a game after shipping it… Dont?

        Just make the game, wrap it up finished, and let me buy it. It doesnt need to be a subscription, I dont need to play it for 6 years, you can move on with your life and design a different game.

        Ill pay cash, just give me the whole game for crying out loud

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  • blazera@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Its not a free game. Im not necessarily hating on cosmetic microtransactions, but they are microtransactions and theyve claimed to remove all of them.

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    • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They did not make that claim. The article is just wrong. The devs said they’re removing in-game monitization and only having DLC on the store page. It’s functionally identical I assume, but there’s less pressure on players playing the game.

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• GreenMario@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Deep Rock Galactic does this and nobody cares.

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• mojo@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What’s wrong with any of that

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  • Ok_imagination@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think my biggest problem is that the game is still in early access. There shouldn’t be any dlc imo.

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