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Honest question here. I’m not familiar with the game, but you seem to be upset that it offers cosmetic items for sale. One of your proposed solutions is to bundle all of the cosmetic items together and sell it as a DLC. What is the actual difference in those two options? Why does one of them seem acceptable to you while the other does not? They sound like the exact same thing to me.

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Buttflapper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

you seem to be upset that it offers cosmetic items for sale. One of your proposed solutions is to bundle all of the cosmetic items together and sell it as a DLC. What is the actual difference in those two options?

The difference is cosmetic items in an in-game shop are designed to get you to “browse” the store regularly and then become mentally conditioned to “shopping” for additional things to buy that aren’t included in the game. This is a very unnatural way of acquiring cosmetics in a video game. A more natural approach is to simply discover them in the game or earn them through gameplay. Simple example: Red tiger camo in Call of Duty 4. No need to browse a shop and see skins and wade through other crap to find the one you want and then see a price tag. You also don’t have to see a DLC you don’t have, since you haven’t bought it. Adding things in a game and being like “Sorry, you don’t have this… but you COULD have it, for $5!” that’s just nutty to me

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