Fucking dumbass.

If you think a human being committing suicide isn’t a tragedy because she’s a porn star you are a wretched person.

Fuck off.

As someone who probably spent maybe 300 dollars on this game - a long time ago, I agree that we shouldn’t be encouraging the micro-transaction based free to play model. However, that ship sailed many years ago. The least we should be doing now is to hold companies more accountable for shady practices like this…

“If you sink 400$ into a game like this you shouldn’t demand a refund, you should seek out help.”

Can I get an AMEN!! But seriously, though... this trend of Games As a Service and microtransactions is giving these companies around 50% of their revenue. Soooo, for as long as people keep buying opportunities to spend money instead of games, this trend will continue. I don’t think it has peaked yet with the EA…

I think he should get help and the refund. Sure these f2p games are bullshit and this is a perfect example of why microtransactions are bad...but it is super shitty for them not to give more of an advanced notice. Refunding recent purchases would be the right thing to do.

Should we really foster a society that doesn’t have any shits to give about exploitative business practices?

Pewdiepie’s stream isn’t their property. The full playthrough of their legally protected intellectual property however is. He could argue fair use if all he was uploading was his cringecam feed with some brief cuts to the game. Uploading the contents of the game in their entirety is not fair use, and is why things…

Pewdiepie’s stream is not their property, so it is abuse of the DMCA.

Pewdiepie is a racist but abusers of the DMCA should fuck off.

So if the trend keeps true, it’ll become one of the most overrated, overhyped, and overpriced items in its category, at least for the next nine years?

You can’t introduce a handful of characters, not actually make a story for them, and say “no it’s open ended, it’s fun!” destiny 1's story was objectively bad. It’s not even arguable

The scarcity or abundance of the shaders isn’t the real issue here, it’s the fact that they’re even consumables in the first place. There is ZERO reason to take what used to be permanent unlockables and turn them into consumables except for capitalizing on microtransactions.

The “shader thing” is that they took what used to be a really simple system that worked and decided to turn it into a consumable, both optimizing it for microtransactions and forcing replay value out of the game through additional farming.

Literally the only two things anyone ever said when they criticized D1 was that it didn’t have a story and that there wasn’t enough content. Both problems have been completely fixed.

I wouldn’t mind if it was just consumable per gear slot, but once you use it, you should have it for life. Certain types of games use those kind of tactics (mostly free to play). This is not the way it should be.

They changed a system that functioned perfectly into one that requires players invest an embarrassing amount of time into farming for the same color, over and over again, in hopes of getting it enough to equip on all their gear. And that gear might not be what they use later on, meaning that initial investment of time…

Actually, my observation is that a naked d player economy trading digital goods for crypto currency transaction on a cell phone is *so obviously* going to be a money laundering vector that it can’t have escaped the notice of anyone with the mathematics skills to be a game developer or business owner.

Is there any legitimate possibility that this *isn’t* a money laundering scheme?