“In-game purchases (includes random items)”
in case anyone thought it might, for a second, not have a predatory business model.
“In-game purchases (includes random items)”
in case anyone thought it might, for a second, not have a predatory business model.
Literally nothing of value was created.
This looks exactly like one of those games where you will get a really overly simplistic tutorial, be given a really awful character and then after 5 minutes of gameplay be told you are out of energy and need to wait 2 weeks or buy the “energy pack” for 12.99 $ to continue playing.
As well as random “Hero packs” for 14.99.
Just axe the warcraft franchise.
Oh my goodness, no. Directly paying for something just isn’t scummy enough.
These days you buy stuff with “coins” and you buy the “coins” with money. But of course you can never buy the exact amount of “coins” you need.
Pack costs 600 coins. You can buy them at either 123 coins for 4.99$, 250 coins for 9.99$, 536 coins for 19.99$ or the “best deal!” 1200 coins for 59.99$!
I miss when phone games were these simple SNES platformers and playstation remakes. The last good days before gacha destroyed the industry.
You know, we like to dunk on Acti-Blizz for being greedy af, but as a World of Tanks/Warships player, Wargaming was -WAY- ahead of them. It came out in 2010, I was 16 about to turn 17 at the time, and they were initially a F2P game, but you could get ahead by buying so-called “Premium account” ( faster XP gain, faster credit gain). And the worst offender?
A premium tank that cost €50, the price of a full triple A title. I will admit I was once dumb and bought one cause I thought bigger tank = less chance of dying.
And they haven’t changed since.
And was the tank then even good?
Apparently the game will be banned here because of the lootboxes.
The tank itself was a beast back in the day, and if played right can still be dangerous. Sadly it’s player was utterly hopeless at the game.
Edit: It was the American T34 premium ( not to be confused with it’s Soviet counterpart the T-34 and it’s Chinese knockoff version the Type T-34).
Oh yeah for sure, Blizz are sadly no where near unique in the industry for scummy business models.
Still worth noting when they are being scummy though.
very cool honestly
If only being scummy was the exception rather than the norm huh?
It’s like going onto Twitter and seeing a celebrity name in the trending, you always breathe a slight sigh of relief when you realise they’re not trending because they died or failed to understand the definition of the word “consensual.”
It’s disappointingly rare.
That, in a game with such an excessively child-friendly artstyle makes me gag.
If only, alas.
Next time you should spend 50 bucks on buying a Girls und Panzer tank game instead. They always get good reviews and, extremely mild bit of game trivia: one of them outsold Metal Gear Survive in Japan when they both released at the same time.
Todays peeve is not just the awful mobile game but also the two ERPing viera that are hanging out in Ishgard, get a room and stop spamming /eategg with display log message toggled on.
What does that do?
Just your character eating an egg.
Guessing the aformentioned viera are using it for a euthamism.
And what is display log message turned on?
Can you toggle the emote text showing in FF XIV?