Blog:God Awful Microtransactions

So, what would everyone here say is the WORST microtransaction scheme you've ever seen in a video game? You don't necessarily need to have played the game to answer this one. To get the ball rolling: The worst ones I've seen are the ones whose progression system completely revolves around these side payments. For one, they miss the point of buying and playing the game completely, telling me that the game in question isn't worth playing. Second, this design template allows the developers to make progression as sluggish as possible to prey on impatience, which is a sickening prospect is they actually WANT you to pay up because the game is taking too long to play. I think NBA 2K18 is the best example of the points I illustrated; slow to progress, everything is overpriced, and rewards are paltry at best. Now, I haven't played that game thankfully, but the discussions surrounding 2K's greedy intentions with the game are enough for me to gauge how egregious it is. There's a reason I like fully single player titles like Spider-Man, because they don't make me feel like I need to pay extra to accelerate progress! In short, I hate the idea of progression-based microtransactions, and they can die in a fire!

