The Main Lesson From ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Should Be ‘People Hate Microtransactions’ - eviltoast

If reception to Baldur’s Gate says anything, it’s that people hate microtransactions in their AAA games.

  • Riker_Maneuver@startrek.website
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    1 year ago

    Completely agree. Remember when people lost their shit over horse armor in Oblivion? That would be seen as reasonable now. They just kept forcing these things until it was normalized, and now we’ve had an entire generation grow up with MTX as the norm.

    • NightOwl@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      It was interesting how quickly people fell in line with finding paying for online multiplayer normal too on the console side. Although some do try to hand wave it away by saying they aren’t paying for online, but to subscribe to game rentals.

      But, yeah lot of these things people complain about eventually become the norm, and those who complain about it get seen as cranky entitled gamers over the long run.