Heartstone can be considered a microtransaction? because in physical card games, you need to buy cards. My point is buying boosters is not something "additional"
Sometimes, the light of the moon is a key to other spaces. I've found a place where, for a night or two, the streets curve in unfamiliar ways. If I walk here, I might find insight, or I might be touched by madness.
And yet I've played WOW and a few other Blizzard games since 2007 and not spent a penny on micro-transactions, why? because I have a choice. People forget we have a choice and act like there's a dude behind them with a gun. Companies exist to make money and they will do anything they can to make money yet even in 2020 this logic baffles and disgusts people? honestly blows my mind.
So WoW is a b2p, p2w (to some people who buy tokens to get boosted via gold) subscription-based game with an ingame shop.
WoW is honestly making gacha games look good practices-wise.
Boycotting seems to be going really well guys, they might need to fire a bunch of people again on these numbers.
Well tbh i have the money to buy stuff like this. I don't because ALL of the transmogs in the Blizz shop are shitty anyway.
But i do buy tokens simply because i am to lazy to farm. And i am not sorry for it. I like playing the game. I hate auction house gameing and i hate farming on top of grinding.
Is it thrown out money? Yeah probably. But i rather do other stuff than run aroudn for hours to get the money. So i don't mind the 20€ every 3 month on top.
people have a hard time understanding the concept of community thats why you see people being exploited and failing to realise they are even being exploited because "Its only $20 I earn that in half an hour at work" "I havent paid for WoW since they introduced tokens" becauses one's focus is on their own individual needs not the collective. What is healthy for the game is ridiculed because "you must be poor if you cant afford $15 a month thats like two drinks at a bar" failing to see the forest for the trees and the man behind the curtain continues to make eye watering amounts of money because they can get away with charging obscene prices for changes of code which most games would offer free anyway. Especially server transfers.
Common player now is all about ones self.
Comes a time when we all gotta die...even kings.
So you claim one thing and then disprove it. That's a pretty solid argument there.
I am also in the "I will never P2W or buy cosmetics" crowd. But I'm not naive enough to demand that people should spend their money like me. Good on ActiBliz for making so much money. Their shareholders should be pleased and it should also be pleasing to the players. The shareholders get richer and players can look forward to more content both cosmetic (if you like that) and playable content. Who knows. Maybe some day I will buy something cosmetic from the wow shop.
Yes indeed, but I was specifically talking about behavior in video games because much like people act differently online, they offen act differently in games too.
Someone who is a nice person who earns a good living will fail to understand why paying $25 for a different colored mount is bad for the game.
Comes a time when we all gotta die...even kings.