I wonder if this is why capcom went big on anti modding recently cos they wanna charge for mods basically.

walked so Capcom could run

Nothing like a corrupted cloud save bricking a video game because you are not allowed to see your cloud saves and delete them when there's a problem... or when you just want to start a fresh play through.

It has denuvo so it might take a few weeks or a few days

I'll die charging the hill.

So you can "earn" the stuff in-game: so what? That doesn't excuse it at all and I don't know why people repeat this. They aren't mad the item can be earned, they are mad it is sold. These seem like the same issue but they are not. Conflating them as the same issue is a poor attempt to deflect the justified frustration of the people who paid for this game. Their frustration is a basic part of human psychology. It is why we do not allow steroids in sports. It is why we separate boxing matches by weight. There is a fundamental understanding of "fairness" that every leftist should understand and this encroaches on that understanding. As a leftist you should understand how this is indicative of a greater inequity between what is accessible to those with wealth and those without in our society and you should be upset that it has not only consumed our working lives but now consumes our leisure as well.

In so far as your comments on the Rift companions being gated; I'm afraid you've put the cart before the horse. They are selling the solution to a problem they designed. This is the exact kind of toxic gameplay elements that people criticize the very existence of cash shops for. We aren't talking about some cosmetics here. The fact that you are trying to pass that off as a good thing shows just how lost in the sauce you are.

All these systems that must be interacted with in this way are things that must be programmed and tested. It hurts to see a game get blasted for performance issues when those same programmers may have been working on this garbage instead. Would their time have been better spent making sure the game ran nicely? Absolutely. But hey, at least they got the rift crystals and character editor token working right in the cash shop and isn't that what really matters?

You mentioned that it's not a big deal to have pay-2-win in a single player game. "Who cares," you say? Well, uh, a load of people. Why attempt to invalidate their concerns? Very toxic behavior in service to the greedy corporation, comrade. Do better.

I do maintain that they refrained from placing a New Game button there for a reason and that that reason is very stupid, likely predatory.

That said, a lot of people are straight up lying about art of metamorphosis yes.

You know some fuckery is happening when developers strip you of basic functionality (like, literally, creating another character??) and then give you an option to restore that functionality for real money, irrespective of whether this can be achieved in game.

This makes it more acceptable to implement such practices in the future, and to either make it microtransaction-only or to enable insane levels of grind going forward to stimulate players to take an easy route...with cash.

That's not to mention that singleplayer/co-op games should never have microtransactions in the first place. You bought it, you are free to enjoy it whichever way you like. Yes, even "ruining your game with OP stuff" and cheating. Whatever strikes your fancy.

"Absolutely nothing being sold can't be acquired in game for a pittance." so was the case in battlefront. no p2w shit should be allowed

Creating an unfavorable situation and then charging money for it isn't great, and warrants negative reviews.

Taking advantage of "schmucks" also isn't great.

They could've made different choices. They are being reviewed based on the choices they made.

I won't buy a denuvo game or a game that forces online to play.

I was about to re-buy (since I still have my ps1 discs) the original ff7. Like a 25 year old game, but they require you to be online to start playing. Fuck that. No damned reason for it. I was going to buy it for my steam deck. Now I'm just going to pirate it instead. I hear it runs better emulated than the PC port runs without modding it.

Like, you mean with the in game currency you can farm from killing mobs?

Oh good*, that's how it was in the first game. I was worried because they did do paid vouchers with no ways to gain them in Monster Hunter Rise.

*Not exactly good as it feels like someone somewhere is getting exploited still but there is relief

RuneScape has a makeover mage for 2k gold (you get 10k for learning about account safety right after the tutorial). Not to be confused with the barber and clothier who also exist and function similarly.

I don't think being unable to delete characters or start new games is permissable though. I only have this post for context though

dragon's dogshit

Sitting in the corner weeping as my wife plays video games right in front of me