Quote Originally Posted by Jack Sawyer View Post
This is my dog in the fight. The monetization strategies have changed the industry completely, and for the worse.
Says YOU!! Maybe in the grand scheme of things, it's not worse. For the last time...economics do not cowtow to your whiny self-indulgent preferences!! A market exists for this type of monetization practice.....so who are you to judge it? People will pay what they want to pay for the things they want to have. If they can't get the things they want for the price they want, they won't buy it. Period. And the market will decide what is right or wrong.

Also, as I've pointed out you exhaustively, the industry has LOST revenue streams that it used to have. So get used to the idea of being introduced to some innovative monetization strategies now and then. Not all of them will be gleaming examples of expert commerce. There may be some bumps in the road, but it should be left to the market to smooth that out. Example: I'll bet my house that EA's next Star Wars game will be drastically changed from this latest installation.

Instead of fixing the game,
Ugh...this reeks of entitlement. Why is the game "broken"?

the fixate on adding transactions.
Prove this

This is the one example that affects me the most, but it's all over. It's becoming the norm.
So what if it becomes the norm? If gamers play along....then it's FINE. If they don't, then the market will force the industry to change.

And they are making use of ignorance of the masses,
Right Jack, you're just one of the enlightened few huh?

mostly younger uns, to pass this through.
Hang on.....give me a second.....I rolled my eyes too hard

Are you talking about the young-uns who don't have credit cards and have no way to participate in this exploitative microtransaction market? What's passing through them?

If you're talking about young, but old enough to have a credit card, then you're talking about adults. And adults can make their own decisions about what to buy.

So there will come the point that you just have to back off from the games you actually love.
So your limited investment has a limited return!!!??? Holy shit!! That's....just.....unimaginable!!!!!