As long as cosmetics can also drop as part of playing the game, I don’t care if the shop’s charging people $25 for a gear set, because I don’t need to buy it.

  • No Man’s Sky is another example, as well, and I think the answer to those examples lies in the greed of the studios. I don’t like the idea of microtransactions any more than anyone else who isn’t named Bobby Kotick, but given what we know about corporate greed, it’s a reasonable conclusion to draw that if they can’t make billions with a cash shop they’ll make it some other way, and that way would probably be higher sticker prices. Third and fourth yachts don’t pay for themselves, you know.