• Sneezycat@sopuli.xyz
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    15 days ago

    There’s also the fact that they’re completely optional and unnecessary. They provide nothing but cosmetics

    I hate this argument, because videogames themselves are completely optional and unnecessary. That’s the whole point of them, they’re just for entertainment, to have fun and enjoy playing them. So I don’t see how something being cosmetic makes any difference.

    It’s more like we didn’t like pay2win on online games, so they started making it “just cosmetic” in those, and somehow now people think it’s acceptable to have to pay for parts of a game they bought, in every game ever?

    Well, people waste their money on useless crap all the time, so I guess I’ll just be the cranky old lady and go back to playing my original AoM, where I’m actually playing a game and not an advertisement.

    • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works
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      15 days ago

      Yeah i hate that argument too. Cosmetics used to be unlockable, not purchasable. We’ve took a massive step back and people just give it a pass. Not me though

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      15 days ago

      where I’m actually playing a game and not an advertisement

      That’s more than a little bit hyperbolic.

    • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one
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      14 days ago

      It’s more like we didn’t like pay2win on online games, so they started making it “just cosmetic” in those, and somehow now people think it’s acceptable to have to pay for parts of a game they bought, in every game ever?

      Warhammer: Total War really annoyed me on it’s DLC. Some the DLC factions were already in the base game. I would be paying to unlock factions that were part of the dev cycle.

      I could at least understand it, if the factions were released after the base game.