General Godus discussion

Disgusting.

I think arguments against in-game micro-transactions on console would carry more weight if arcades had never existed.

Bullshit. Arcades with their pay-to-play system are the very opposite of microtransactions.

Arcades are way closer to rental games or pay-to-play subscription-bases MMOs like WoW, contrary to microtransaction-based crap like TERA or ArcheAge.

Arcades don't really compare to consoles - if anything arcades compare to mobile gaming.
With their gem purchases.

On console its just the industry big hitters following the trends.
Something I saw coming once Rockstar noticed that their micro-transactions in GTA Online were "A gift that just keeps on giving."
'Oh wow, people actually PAY for that?! We have to do that in all our games!'


The stupidity of the mainstream consumer keeps astounding me... They literally do not care that they're being screwed over as long as they get their high.
As a result, the quality assurance keeps dropping and dropping. Soon enough titles such as Cookie Clicker aren't gonna be free browser games but are gonna be sold for $5~10 a piece and titles that you wouldn't even find in a bargain bin 10~15 years ago are gonna be sold as $60 blockbuster equivalents.

Afterall, why bother making a good game, if people pay you $60 for a shitty one!

If George's argument is that arcade games were the biggest ripoff of all time, I agree. Most arcade games were designed to extra the maximum amount of money through some pretty manipulative mechanics.

I hate DLC, so much dlc these days is content deliberately withheld for sale after the game is released. Just look at the Sims4. Dlc can be done well with dota2 being a great example of doc done right because it's conpletely cosmetic.

AC:Unity is even worse, as it doesn't provide even the smallest justification for microtransactions.

Not just mine, as you can see.

Well, there's a few reasons arcades faded out as home console ownership rose...Which I suspect we can attribute, at least in part, to consumer recognition of the value of an end-product with a single-cost compared to service with multiple costs, which I think you could argue arcades more or less were.

Although, I'm not entirely familiar with how those worked in terms of hashing out the revenues drawn, but their basic form as an entertainment service-product seems fitting in my head. Regardless of how they were operated, I think the closest you can come to tolerable games as service models are found in free to play with cosmetic only stuff, if online game buy once, microtransaction currency and aesthetic only DLC can work (or, buy once sub fee, but that's proving difficult to maintain), if single player buy once, some microexpansions/DLC and overall expansions can work.

However, as Assassin's Creed: Unity displays, there is some, perhaps only a loud minority, resistance to the notion of microtransaction currencies in full-priced, single-player games and, I'd say, for good reason. The possibility of designing the systems to exploit the presence of these currencies becomes a necessity to justify their presence.

I'm not sure which thread you are referring to but if it was on this board it must be somewhere as I haven't deleted any. It could be in the archive section if it is an old thread.