@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 26 days agoMarvel Rivals' latest gambit is seeing whether you'll pay real money for colourswww.rockpapershotgun.comexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up160cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up160external-linkMarvel Rivals' latest gambit is seeing whether you'll pay real money for colourswww.rockpapershotgun.com@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 26 days agomessage-square14fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish23•26 days agoInfamously Dead or Alive did that with character hair colours. That is, not paying to unlock the option, not even paying to unlock individual colours to swap them when you want : you’d have to pay every time you wanted to change a character’s hair.
minus-squareMentalEdgelinkfedilinkEnglish16•26 days agoI love fighting games. But holy fuck is the monetization some of the most outrageous I’ve seen.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•26 days agoEvery once in a while I’ll look up the price for the full version of DOA with all the skins and suddenly I don’t feel bad about my gaming budget.
Infamously Dead or Alive did that with character hair colours. That is, not paying to unlock the option, not even paying to unlock individual colours to swap them when you want : you’d have to pay every time you wanted to change a character’s hair.
I love fighting games.
But holy fuck is the monetization some of the most outrageous I’ve seen.
Genre wide? I wouldn’t say so.
Every once in a while I’ll look up the price for the full version of DOA with all the skins and suddenly I don’t feel bad about my gaming budget.