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Diablo 4's new mount costs more than the actual game (www.pcgamesn.com)
submitted 9 months ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world
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And have we come full circle to god damn horse armor.

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[–] Tarcion@sh.itjust.works 25 points 9 months ago

Some people would have laughed you out of the room. A lot of people, myself included, warned that this was the kind of shit we'd spiral into with these microtransactions. It was basically confirmed within a year or two with the absolutely insane amount of money mobile gaming was seeing where the base product was just addictive crap with as many microtransactions shoveled in as possible. These games just completely blew the revenue of actual AAA titles would out of the water. It was basically inevitable and we're now in a situation where we've got a generation of consumers raised on this trash.