Correct. They make games that are dozens of hours long and filled with repetitive content, and if you skip the content you don’t want to do, you tend to be under leveled for the stuff you do want to do, and they’ll sell you boosters to hit that level instead.
So they make boring games on purpose, and charge you (extra!) money to activate the fun in the game. That’s fucking insanity. Boycott that model, right now.
It didn’t even require a boycott for me. I think plenty of people like the repetitive stuff, so they play it all without thinking about the microtransactions. I was never once tempted to pay for them, so my feelings about the game represent what the game is like without paying for them, and it was a poor experience. So rather than a boycott, it’s just not buying games that I don’t like.
victorz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh ffs 🤦♂️ If I bought the game and want to cheat myself out of the experience, just let me do so…!
If I’m understanding you correctly, level boosters are things you can activate to… skip levels? Reach character levels quicker?
TwanHE@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah they let you skip the artificially inflated grind in your single player experience.
Buying them is not cheating yourself out of the experience, but instead it brings back the intended speed of progression.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Correct. They make games that are dozens of hours long and filled with repetitive content, and if you skip the content you don’t want to do, you tend to be under leveled for the stuff you do want to do, and they’ll sell you boosters to hit that level instead.
victorz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So they make boring games on purpose, and charge you (extra!) money to activate the fun in the game. That’s fucking insanity. Boycott that model, right now.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It didn’t even require a boycott for me. I think plenty of people like the repetitive stuff, so they play it all without thinking about the microtransactions. I was never once tempted to pay for them, so my feelings about the game represent what the game is like without paying for them, and it was a poor experience. So rather than a boycott, it’s just not buying games that I don’t like.