This thing costs as much as a Deluxe edition expansion… but I kinda want it…
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Why are games all shitty cash grabs these days?
People buy the skins. They actually spend money on this stuff. Crazy right?!
So what are corporations going to do? They are going to slowly increase the price, see what they can get away with. Paid cosmetics started as microtransactions, $0.01 to $5, but have since ballooned into a $20-50 normality with them being way way up into the hundreds in some cases. It's ridiculous, but it's all because people actually buy this stuff...
I think it's whale marketing. It's easier to trick one person out of 100 to give you $100 than to trick 100 people to give you $1.
I'm terribly sorry to tell you this, but it's not just whales anymore, it's a majority of people. Nearly everyone I come across in games has some sort of $20+ skin. The whales just moved on to spending more, but so did everyone else.
The newer generations dont know any different, this is the norm for them.
Note, these are both Blizzard games
Which I don't play anymore, but this stupid shit bleeds over into everything else.
Because people keep buying these shitty things.
because they can get away with it corporations are always pushing the boundaries of how shitty they can be, and we have arrived at maximum shit for now, until they figure out some new horrible thing to do. There is no going back people have accepted the shit and corporations wont give it up, the only hope is regulation. But there is, not exactly a silver lining since its not a side effect of the shit but there is is lack of shit in some places, AA games and indie games are just fine and they are putting out some of the best games ever made with no shit at all, its just "AAA" mainly that is shitty.
Risk less profit makes the quants and the suits happy. At worst you waste the wages of the artist to create model, and the whole bureaucratic corporate process to get it QA’d and on the shop.