• Murvel@lemm.ee
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    10 hours ago

    Who the fuck is complaining? All the players I’ve played with think the armors awesome

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    22 hours ago

    "“615 SC for a primary weapon is straight-up ridiculous,” wrote user Goopmaster_ in a top-upvoted post on the Helldivers subreddit. “”

    This is what passes for news today… Holy shit.

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      19 hours ago

      “Commenters online are SLAMMING pcgamer’s article on the Helldivers 2 controversy - click for more details”

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        17 hours ago

        slaacaa destroys PCGAMER’s coverage of the helldivers2 microtransaction implementation.

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    11 hours ago

    Helldivers players have no idea how good they have it. What a bunch of whiny entitled losers lmao

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    I don’t get the removed. Is it brutally expensive? Yes. Do you have to buy it? No. In terms of stats the gun is nothing special, the armor is quite good, but not essential. For a one time crossover, it’s fine.

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      20 hours ago

      It generates FOMO though. I remember when you didn’t have to pay for stuff in games, so I personally still find it very shitty to have to buy skins etc.

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        I’m still a bit unsure how plausible it is to make a multiplayer game, keep it updated, and not sell content within the game.

        The good devs restrict it to cosmetic options, but I can’t say I’ve moralistically stuck to that kind of perfection - I’m okay with new weapons/characters as long as they stay balanced against old ones. It becomes a sort of hazy issue.

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          Halo 3 and other games of it’s time did well enough, and the multiplayer for them lasted way longer than most live service games.

          Actual DLC was better than FOMO cosmetics in my opinion.

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      21 hours ago

      Is it brutally expensive? Yes. Do you have to buy it? No.

      Will people buy it? Yes.

      Will there be more brutally expensive items because of it? Yes.

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      21 hours ago

      They hire psychologists to explicitly figure out how to better make sales. Logical thinking will not win. Microtransactions, which consists of crap you don’t need, is a billion dollar industry and has bankrupted numerous homes.

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          12 hours ago

          Thats true in a surface level way. Buts its equally true about cigarettes, heroin any other adictive substance you can think of.

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              No but your argument that no-one is forced to buy cigarettes is equally valid to arguing that for micro-transactions. One is chemically adictive, the other uses physchological tricks and is almost entirely unregulated.