So why not let people ‘pay to win’ in games with micro-transactions?

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“Exclusive to Prime members”

“Exclusive to Prime members”

You can! Just like you can play against people who have, say, Sagat, even if you’ve never unlocked/bought him. You’ll never be locked out of a match based on not having the BG or costume your opponent has.

You pick exactly what you want - you get Fight Money (FM) for doing stuff, and can use that on unlocks.

I think you should follow up with what this fella has to say:

it depends - your first few characters can be picked up super quick. Playing the individual character stories, the main Story mode, Survival mode, and the rotating Mission mode all add up real fast.

oh, I agree - and I look at a place like Nintendo, possibly the only AAA dev (that all AAA and Real Gamers wail isn’t ‘real gaming’ and isn’t ‘real AAA’) that continues to make games based on having a longevity & quality to its audience, and know that there’s A Way to make games without these practices. But AAA…

and as I said elsewhere, that’s what I’m dying to see happen - the death of the games industry as we know it.

Now answer me this one - how do you solve the case of The Escalating Budgets Of Games Made For Those Who Refuse To Pay the Real Cost?

I suppose not - at least, not if you always got back at least what you put in.

When you’re not spending real money on it,no.

Now if you paid $10 and they gave you a random movie, then yes that would be considered gambling.

That said, it’s not like I think these mechanics should be in games at all. I just get really nervous when people excitedly wanna label anything they don’t like as somehow worthy of dire punishment, regulation, et al. To shift the definition of a term to be more strictly the more lax version (‘gambling is taking a…

I don’t know - is Magic: The Gathering or buying baseball cards gambling? The ‘rewards’ there are randomized too, and require you pay money.

It’s definitely not $400, I told you how I’m able to access several exclusives, plus other games, with just $200 or so. Which, yes, makes it well worth it to me.

It’s betting money in hopes of getting something, anything.

I didn’t know I could randomly win money playing Battlefront 2...

but the question is - is it really worth $250-400 (depending on when/what you got) to access 2-5 exclusives? At what point is it okay to just miss out on that stuff, so you can have the most fully-fledged experience on PC?