Boblee Posted April 18, 2022 Share Posted April 18, 2022 It's not my cup of tea at all. It's been here for ages but I would never give into it no matter how pressing they get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heatman Posted April 18, 2022 Share Posted April 18, 2022 Gaming companies can't pull the plug on in app purchases because they are making awfully a huge amount of money from it over now gullible gamers can be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin11 Posted April 18, 2022 Share Posted April 18, 2022 E.g; Fortnite developers are making cool money off through Fortnite item sales like the skin, weapons etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Head_Hunter Posted April 19, 2022 Share Posted April 19, 2022 That's how Epic game developers make most of their money, they don't receive monetary reward for the game at first time purchase, it's downloaded or installed for free. But the item purchases from the store adds to the developers revenue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heatman Posted April 19, 2022 Share Posted April 19, 2022 16 hours ago, Justin11 said: E.g; Fortnite developers are making cool money off through Fortnite item sales like the skin, weapons etc. There are so many of them they if one should think about getting them all, he should be looking at hundreds of a thousand of dollars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boblee Posted April 19, 2022 Share Posted April 19, 2022 21 hours ago, Justin11 said: E.g; Fortnite developers are making cool money off through Fortnite item sales like the skin, weapons etc. The skins are worth getting. It's not like they help you to win in the game like other pay to win games works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shagger Posted April 19, 2022 Share Posted April 19, 2022 34 minutes ago, Boblee said: The skins are worth getting. It's not like they help you to win in the game like other pay to win games works. I'd disagree. The skins are more manipulative and more diabolically clever than you might think, especially on game aimed a younger audiences like Fortnite is. It's all about a kind of unspoken class structure. If you're a teenager playing session on Fortnite in lobby full of your School mates donning standard skins, bulling and kind of peer pressure that could put real pressure on vulnerable people to spend money. I remember when I was in high school that kids got made fun of when they wore cheap brands of clothing or shoes, this the same sort of thing in more modern guise. If a lot of ways, the cosmetic microtransactions may be even worse than pay-to-win. I'd say they are even predatory and manipulative, especially in a game aimed at a younger audience. Boblee 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boblee Posted April 19, 2022 Share Posted April 19, 2022 1 minute ago, Shagger said: I'd disagree. The skins are more manipulative and more diabolically clever than you might think, especially on game aimed a younger audiences like Fortnite is. It's all about a kind of unspoken class structure. If you're a teenager playing session on Fortnite in lobby full of your School mates donning standard skins, bulling and kind of peer pressure that could put real pressure on vulnerable people to spend money. I remember when I was in high school that kids got made fun of when they wore cheap brands of clothing or shoes, this the same sort of thing in more modern guise. If a lot of ways, the cosmetic microtransactions may be even worse than pay-to-win. I'd say they are even predatory and manipulative, especially in a game aimed at a younger audience. I do agree that it's a clever way to pull more money off the gamers and what I can categorically say is wrong would be that their acts is targeted to a much younger audience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin11 Posted April 19, 2022 Share Posted April 19, 2022 2 hours ago, Boblee said: The skins are worth getting. It's not like they help you to win in the game like other pay to win games works. It's just a way to get you enticed and loving their game. All those ad-ons are means of generating revenue in the game, that's why it is called pay to win games just as you described. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shagger Posted April 19, 2022 Share Posted April 19, 2022 15 minutes ago, Justin11 said: It's just a way to get you enticed and loving their game. All those ad-ons are means of generating revenue in the game, that's why it is called pay to win games just as you described. I don't know if I'm reading this all wrong or something, but it looks you're defending this sort of thing. Pay-to-win is never acceptable under any circumstances. It's takes away the accomplishment of victory, it removes any sense of fairness and valour in defeat, it invalidates competition, it's lazy and it's greedy. It makes a game worse if not ruin it completely, pure and simple and every time. And as I explained earlier, cosmetic microtransactions aren't much better. Justin11 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin11 Posted April 19, 2022 Share Posted April 19, 2022 2 minutes ago, Shagger said: I don't know if I'm reading this all wrong or something, but it looks you're defending this sort of thing. Pay-to-win is never acceptable under any circumstances. It's takes away the accomplishment of victory, it removes any sense of fairness and valour in defeat, it invalidates competition, it's lazy and it's greedy. It makes a game worse if not ruin it completely, pure and simple and every time. And as I explained earlier, cosmetic microtransactions aren't much better. You know I can never support such extra means of money derivatives by the game creators, that's extortion. I don't like the idea of micro-transactions, it has deviated us from the spirit of the game to spending money like we're playing casino bets. Shagger 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heatman Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 19 hours ago, Boblee said: The skins are worth getting. It's not like they help you to win in the game like other pay to win games works. There is argument about most of the skins being good but it's not something that I would be open to getting lots of them even if I were to be picking money from the road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boblee Posted April 21, 2022 Share Posted April 21, 2022 17 hours ago, Heatman said: There is argument about most of the skins being good but it's not something that I would be open to getting lots of them even if I were to be picking money from the road. Some gamers are really obsessed with getting them and it's why there are tons of them being pushed to so many games. Just like it's done with Fortnite and League of Legends with about 1842 skins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin11 Posted April 21, 2022 Share Posted April 21, 2022 Fortnite is shy away from catching league of legends when it comes to the number of skins created in their game. Fortnite is currently at 1270, while league of legend is poised at 1842, that's a big difference on them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heatman Posted April 21, 2022 Share Posted April 21, 2022 1 hour ago, Justin11 said: Fortnite is shy away from catching league of legends when it comes to the number of skins created in their game. Fortnite is currently at 1270, while league of legend is poised at 1842, that's a big difference on them. Fortnite have approximately 1290 as of last month March 2022 and not 1270. Where did the last 20 skins went to? To the moon 🎑? But in all honesty, it's too much what they are pushing gamers to pay for in their games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
