I don’t get the bitching. Is it brutally expensive? Yes. Do you have to buy it? No. In terms of stats the gun is nothing special, the armor is quite good, but not essential. For a one time crossover, it’s fine.
They hire psychologists to explicitly figure out how to better make sales. Logical thinking will not win. Microtransactions, which consists of crap you don’t need, is a billion dollar industry and has bankrupted numerous homes.
Thats true in a surface level way. Buts its equally true about cigarettes, heroin any other adictive substance you can think of.
It generates FOMO though. I remember when you didn’t have to pay for stuff in games, so I personally still find it very shitty to have to buy skins etc.
Even so. There was once a magical time when games did not have FOMO at all.
I’m still a bit unsure how plausible it is to make a multiplayer game, keep it updated, and not sell content within the game.
The good devs restrict it to cosmetic options, but I can’t say I’ve moralistically stuck to that kind of perfection - I’m okay with new weapons/characters as long as they stay balanced against old ones. It becomes a sort of hazy issue.
Halo 3 and other games of it’s time did well enough, and the multiplayer for them lasted way longer than most live service games.
Actual DLC was better than FOMO cosmetics in my opinion.
Is it brutally expensive? Yes. Do you have to buy it? No.
Will people buy it? Yes.
Will there be more brutally expensive items because of it? Yes.
Helldivers players have no idea how good they have it. What a bunch of whiny entitled losers lmao
Just because others have it worse, doesn’t mean you should settle for slightly better than terrible.
Your dev team and management cares about the players, that’s much better than terrible already
Who the fuck is complaining? All the players I’ve played with think the armors awesome
"“615 SC for a primary weapon is straight-up ridiculous,” wrote user Goopmaster_ in a top-upvoted post on the Helldivers subreddit. “”
This is what passes for news today… Holy shit.
“Commenters online are SLAMMING pcgamer’s article on the Helldivers 2 controversy - click for more details”
They released the rest of the kill zone stuff for free
