Here’s a lengthy post of why the addition of Microtransactions is damaging to the franchise and greedy by Activision, and why I feel so strongly personal about it.
Kids play this game, the parents do as well and I mean everyone does. What this does is incentivise people to buy the Wumpa Coin bundles, because the game was designed this way, even if flawed. (Prices range from $2.49-$9.99 USD, varies by currency)
When you’re playing offline, you cannot earn Wumpa Coins, and especially since most cosmetics and some characters cannot be unlocked in the normal way the game is set up to be. Even playing locally is a similar story, the game forces you to be online and playing with other people, and it is a tactical move that basically puts a “band aid” on a problem that never existed in the first place, because it was done intentionally. Remember the whole rotation, grinding and like, how you’re not always able to get the items right away?
And the Nitro Gauge datamine makes this even more apparent, it wants you to catch up using WCs (after the GP is finished). Now, that would’ve been somewhat tolerable if it wasn’t for the addition of MTX, this is where it really becomes apparent how greedy it is, especially if you just bought the game and you didn’t want to bother grinding out. Having MTX hurts buyers by making them shell out real money and exploiting them and it hurts non-buyers even more by telling them to buck off for even having the incentive to reward themselves by playing and improving their skills.
Activision is basically telling you that you should buy our bundles, so we can keep making money AND make it worse, you already forgot what happened in other games they published that involve online multiplayer?
This is why it makes it no less scummy for Activision to add it AFTER the release of the game, it makes it worse now that people have played the game and have now spread negative word of mouth, yes, word of mouth does mean potentially less sales, not exactly a good look…
Links on Nitro Gauge WC and WC Bundle Prices (MTX)
Originally posted on social media…
