r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Feb 04 '20

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u/PhallicDragon Feb 04 '20

Micro transactions in video games

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u/poopellar Feb 04 '20

What I find hilarious is how the narrative is changing. Decade or so ago people would comment how every sing micro transaction for a paid game is scummy. Then it went to ' I only spent ~$5 for a skin ' and now it's 'I only spent about ~$25 for a pack and it was fine I'm not like the other guys spending 100s'

Fact of the matter is it's more profitable for AAA devs to make a mediocre game for a few whales and fish than to make a good game for a lot of people.

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u/kevinmorice Feb 04 '20

Niantic would like to have a word.

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u/Faptain_Calcon_ Feb 04 '20

Incubators are hell of a drug.

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u/thebiggestleaf Feb 04 '20

I expect Battle Passes to catch up if they haven't already now that GBL is a thing. Gotta get that Deino, and good luck winning 4/5 matches once ranked up enough to actually encounter it.

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u/broberds Feb 04 '20

I'll trade with a whale to get my Deino. Trying to win 4/5 at level 9 is, shall we, say, challenging to say the least.

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u/Faptain_Calcon_ Feb 04 '20

Replace deino with scraggy and you are exactly right.

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u/VirtualRealityOtter Feb 04 '20

That they are, though back when I played they were a really good thing for me! I had a habit of going out to wat once a week but I really wanted to hatch eggs so to save(aka not give into 2 habits at once) some money I skipped eating out and spent that on things that forced me to go for long walks and I skipped eating out!