Gaming article on micro transactions?

[demyansk]

This article talks about a few games in particular and the in game process of buying items.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3231668 ... aming.html

[chemkid]

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[demyansk]

No problem, I never buy that stuff in the games. Therefore, I don't buy them

[Gilmer]

I don't buy the season passes and all that crap. Usually on those games, I wait a really long time and then buy the whole thing at a much reduced price. Microtransactions suck ass.

[demyansk]

You got that right, I do the same thing

[Twotribes]

I buy game currency in several online games, my position is simple, I buy a new game it costs 60 to 90 bucks I play it for a couple months then I quit playing it. I spend 50 bucks on game currency for a game I have been playing for years and enjoy myself for years. Of course I only buy from the game itself. No third parties.

[Gilmer]

I will say I have recently started playing Everquest again on one of their progression servers that will stop at a certain point. I have bought in game currency to buy EXP potions. I'd rather do that than slog out the grind of exping without the potions.

[Lecivius]

I used to be one of those Loot Whores [:'(] I sold stuff for Diablo on Ebay, and made hundreds, if not a few thousand. Made a business on SWG (I was HUGE), and sold credits, made thousands ( just a few thousand, but more than 1 [;)] ). People pay this, and have for a long time. It's a mind set. Mostly Asian, just from the people who paid me. But I could be way off, there. All these companies are doing is commercializing what private individuals have been doing for years.

[Kuokkanen]

ORIGINAL: Lecivius

All these companies are doing is commercializing what private individuals have been doing for years.

Ooh! That is a point right there! I'm not buying though. And when I buy a game, I may as well buy it with all the expansions and DLCs all at once.

[Gilmer]

One last thought. I was looking forward to Shadow of War because I enjoyed the first one, but hearing about loot boxes and micro transactions in the game has soured me on buying it at release. I'll be waiting now.

[MrsWargamer]

I get on average a new pack of Hearthstone cards every second day. The key is playing the daily quest, get a new one each day. Get the coin from the quests. Buy your cards with in-game coin, and don't spend real money.

I never play past rank 20, not required to enjoy the game. Beating a rank 20 player is as fun as beating a rank 10 player. Winning is winning.

The game offers periodic new adventures. They can be fun for new cards.

The real challenge in Hearthstone is just being the first to match up some goofy new combination of cards. And no amount of money will make you a smart player.

I tend to cheat, I let my very skilled son tell me the current killer combos

Often the quests don't require a win. They require doing X a certain sum of times. Often those just require a goofy nonsensical deck. And it is often fun to win with a dumbass combo that normally wouldn't be taken seriously.

Hearthstone, for whatever one wants to think of it, is the best game I have ever played in any genre at all and does human vs human better than anything I have ever played. It's balanced, and your chances to win are always entirely based on your skills and not your wallet. I like that I was able to sign up as my first name. I only use the base card back. I like to have the opponent think "oh newbie" and then get trashed by some girl

It takes a new account a while to slog through the process of gaining all the acquired cards of course. But it is a fun process too.
Starting fresh today, a person will have several adventures to play, and scores of classes to level up and oodles of cards to win.
And the game is generous to new accounts.

For a long time account, a new set just means you get to play a month of really neat new card acquisitions. It's not hard, and those spending actual money are probably spoiled rich people or losers in my view. Most of the cards I get in new packs lately are 'yawn, already have that'.

The game is always evolving, they rotate old sets out and new sets in. Nothing remains the same long.
It's free to play, so really, Hearthstone can't be considered a bad value, it doesn't have to cost you a cent to play it.

I think the Hearthstone method should actually be the norm. If a game is any good at all, you shouldn't need to sell the core program at all.

These days, the only reason I go to the local EB Games is to buy toys To me, the future of game stores is as toy stores. And to look at the store layout, they are more than halfway there now.