Yeah, Ferguson et al. are right. It’s the result of something else, such as depression or an obsessive or addictive personality. But those things are boring, and have already been addressed. Attaching it to gaming feels like a stunt.

Microtransactions have been a hot-button issue, angering players and genuinely undermining or flat-out ruining otherwise perfectly fine games, for some time now. Publishers know full well that we’ll put up with this rampant greed and blatant anti-consumer horseshit to a point, but when you combine literally every…

“We will turn the crystals back on after sales numbers peak and we realize we can no longer make significant sale numbers from game purchases”.