Halo 5 Microtransactions

[owsf2000]

You remember how I said a few posts back when I was ranting about how developers have evolved (Devolved?) into using tricks to make people think the excessive DLC isn't so bad since technically "it's all free", as in, it can all be earned by some in-game currency system. As I mentioned, they do this to give themselves a talking point when people

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[kane_magus]

They're up to Halo 5 now? Huh. How 'bout that. And now I'ma go back to not giving a single shit about Halo, beyond the two or three hours I played into the single player campaign of the first game, several years ago, before I sold the whole lot along with everything else (with Halo 2 and Halo 3 still being in shrinkwrap).

And, yeah, scummy dogshit like what you and Angry Joe describe here is definitely a way to make me anti-interested in ever giving this series (or any other game/series that does similar scummy dogshit) another go at any point, even if I actually still owned a console on which it could be played (and even if it came out on PC, I still wouldn't buy it, even at a 90% off $5 Steam sale). Joe's description of the blind, militant acceptance and defense of this abject, scuzzy horseshit is exactly what is wrong with the modern video game "community," and has been what was wrong with the modern video game "community" for at least a decade and a half now. That is precisely why things have gotten to be as deplorably

[owsf2000]

"The ability to update a game post release was a great step forward in gaming possibility, but a huge step back in gaming reality."

That's the first comment I see under Joe's video, which pretty much sums up EVERYTHING wrong with modern gaming.

And of course one of the first responses to him was a sarcastic reply about how the guy obviously didn't like Halo 5. (Worded in such a way to get that unspoken 'yer an old hasbeen shitbag out of touch with REAL gamers' impression across. - at least that's how it appeared to me.)

[kane_magus]

I didn't see any comments at all, because I have comments on Youtube hidden. I disabled that briefly to see the comment you were talking about (and which I definitely agree with), but then I made the terrible, terrible mistake of scrolling down past that to look at some of the other comments, which never fails to remind me why I installed that add-on in the first place. ¬_¬

In response to the "didn't like Halo 5" asshat, if it were me he'd been responding to, I would have replied that no, indeed, I do not like Halo 5, nor do I like (nor will I buy) any game that does bullshit like this. If that makes me a "has-been" then so fucking be it, and if he wants to waste all of his money and/or time on pointless microtransaction bullshit, then it sucks to be him I guess. "A fool and his money are soon parted," and all that. He is the problem in this situation, not me

[owsf2000]

Yeah, and it seems most of the time the comments won't load for me myself anyway - and often times I prefer it that way honestly. I do glance at a couple of comments once in a blue moon, such as I did today. Literally a couple.

Here's another Angry Joe rant over a "Freemium" game (the pay to win shit). Not really worth it's own post/rant imo given it's 5 months old. But it's pretty much the same kinda shit. Only difference between this and Halo is that Halo is a AAA release. This is a free to play pos that's designed to yank your cash. Other than the level of game development... no difference.

*addition* In particular I'd like to point out this comment in that video, that was only 5 months ago. Only 5 months, and it's already happening. And it's been happening to AAA games before Halo 5 over the last couple of months.

[kane_magus]

I wonder how long it'll be before Halo 5 steals that booster pack concept for their REQ system (assuming that they don't already have it, which they very well might, for all I know). Pay $3 or whatever to make it "slightly more fair" (as Joe put it in that other video) for a scant few hours to get the drops you want. Or, rather, the chance to maybe get the drops you want.

I mean, that's the fucking worst of it, for me. It's like (or rather, it's not "like" because it explicitly "is" that) you're not even buying something concrete (well, as far as anything you buy in a fucking video game can be "concrete"). No, you're simply buying the chance that you might get something halfway decent, but probably won't. Like how Joe in that video bought that $20 bullshit and then got shit for classes that he didn't even own and would need to spend even more money to be able to use

[kane_magus]

Seriously, I honestly cannot decide who disgusts me more in this scenario... the companies who do this kind of nauseating, terrible shit... or the stupid goddamn consumers who slurp it down the sewer pipe, thus making it possible and worthwhile for the companies to do so. Probably about 50/50, or maybe more like 55/45 in favor of hating the inane video game players who buy and defend it more. The main thing I hate about the companies who do it is that they're so disingenuous about it, making like it's somehow a good thing and they're somehow doing the game players a favor or some stupid fucking dogshit like that

[kane_magus]

"The main thing I hate about the companies who do it is that they're so disingenuous about it, making like it's somehow a good thing and they're somehow doing the game players a favor or some stupid fucking dogshit like that."
But then, that, of course, is precisely why it's such an effective scam in the first place, because of all the dimwits who actually swallow that shit and believe it.

Well, it's either that, or they're among those who mistakenly believe that they're "supporting the industry" by buying this kind of fecal matter, like they're some kind of martyr "taking one for the team" or whatever dumb shit, because they're too weak-willed to avoid paying real money for ephemeral, ethereal dung. Like if they didn't buy this shit, then the video game industry would collapse or someth-... oh, wait, at this point, the video game industry almost assuredly would collapse if they stopped buying this shit, so maybe they really are "supporting the industry" by buying this shit. If only the industry that they were supporting hadn't

[kane_magus]

"Ten years ago, it was definitely conceivable, due to all the other shit that was ramping up at the time, but we still all foolishly told ourselves that they'd never, ever stoop so low, surely."
Actually, that was probably just me (and most everyone else), because I think you were already making predictions along these lines even back then. If only more people had been like you and had seen this shit coming, maybe just maybe it could have been nipped in the bud.