I guess this is probably going to be the new shitty norm with bait and switch for reviews then nickel and dime afterwards.

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[–] 108 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Adding micro transactions after release is bullshit. There should be rules where it needs to be in from release or not.

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  • [–] 48 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Right. Some people wouldn't bother with a game at all if they knew there would be this. It's very deceptive.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Knowing they were charging for new characters was almost a dealbreaker for me. This would have stopped me if I had known.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago*

    Paying extra for characters IS a deal breaker for me in fighting games. It's literally pay to win.

    That said, I've been playing Tekken since ps1, so I'll probably just pirate this whenever it's available.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Wait until the reviews are out so people can‘t be warned, and the product can’t be dunked on and then…

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    If they place something behind MTs, then I completely agree. But, if they want to add more cosmetics that don't exist yet, and they finance it MTs, and at a fair price, it's less unethical.

    Announcing it after reviews... Hm. Sketchy at best.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    TF2?

    but tbf that basically invented the lootbox which then made TF2 free to play

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    [–] 59 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Just another lesson to wait months after a games release before even considering it.

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    [–] 35 points 2 years ago

    Review Bomb it on steam

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Fuckers waited until the high praise reviews were in

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Divided? One must be pretty naive if they can't see the move they are trying to pull here.

    Can't wait for f2p Project L to break into the genre and become the biggest and most popular fighting game.

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  • [–] [S] 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    I mean you've got people who are defending Bilzzard's newest horse armor bullshit so yeah.

    ETA: Yup, got quite a few Hardcore Gamers^TM in the thread defending this BS already with 'it's just cosmetics', all fighting games do it, or won't someone think of the devs, like like they think the developers are getting a cut off the money.

    Just sad frogs sitting in the boiling water.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Yeah, you can find vocal people who will play the apologist for just about anything, it‘s baffling to the degree that I wonder if there‘s paid actors on social media in this sense

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Definitely paid actors. These companies all have social media teams. It's not improbable that they create fake personal accounts to post apologist bs.

    They also can buy sock puppet accounts and use those.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    What do you mean "new shitty norm"? Companies have been doing that for years already. First time I saw it around 2017 I think. I not sure about the game, but I think it was Call of Duty.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago*

    From what i gather, they waited until after the reviews were in. They got a good score, which i guess would have been impacted by the inclusion of microtransactions, and released them after the reviews were in. Sounds like they were trying to avoid the bad press they would have gotten for including them (or perhaps purchases even, from people starkly against the practice)

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    Bamco knows bikini skins of their characters are gonna sell like hotcakes.

    That being said, I’ll forgive them if they only release a Kazuya bikini skin with jiggle physics for his pecs.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    I mean let’s be real here. Tekken was originally based on 50¢ microtransactions

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    It already was, activision and capcom both did that, and no, cheat DLCs aren't accessibility, cheats should be free like they were back in the ps2 days and earlier.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    I wish more players would just ignore these cosmetic microtransactions and go with the default skin or at least limit themselves to ones that can be obtained by actually achieving something in the game. Using default skin while outplaying people in competitive games could probably induce some people to make quite salty comments.

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