"I'm just grateful that we're allowed to not do that because that just frees us to purely design the game for the player's experience"
  • Blackmist ( Blackmist@feddit.uk ) English
    11·
    1 year ago

    Thing is, I’ve seen funbucks stuffed into various single player games over the years. The first was probably Mass Effect 3, but some of the Assassin’s Creed games have it too.

    But who are they for? Who buys them? They’ve never really felt like anything that would be useful. It’s usually just some crappy cosmetics, or something you can get through normal play. It’s like they’ve been stuffed in at the request of management, but also like nobody has ever checked up on what they actually put in, or whether anybody bought it…

    • saigot ( saigot@lemmy.ca ) English
      9·
      1 year ago

      Who buys them?

      • People who dont game buying a present who just go “oh deluxe version, not that much more expensive, lets treat them”
      • wealthy people that just pick the priciest option
      • people with completitionist tendencies
      • streamers and wannabe streamers for whom the extra cost is a trivial operating expense
      • children and others that dont understand the value of a dollar
      • people whose primary draw to the game is the photomode
      • “i like game, I want more game therefore I pay more” (yes this logic is terrible when applied to microtransactions)