Subj : Re: The Disney+ price hike ha
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Arelor
Date : Sun Oct 12 2025 11:04:07

  Re: Re: The Disney+ price hike ha
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to Arelor on Sat Oct 11 2025 02:32 pm

 >  I think the big money is in-game purchases. I've played War Thunder
 >  since 2015 or so and when I look at the store history at how much I've
 >  spent on in-game coin to get a specific plane, I weep.
 >
 >  Instead of grinding out to get to the higher levels, some people buy
 >  the premium planes when they come out. I swear, us thunder dogs pile up
 >  on the premium players when a new plane comes out.   :)
 >
 >  Although, lately, it's all top-tier planes as premiums.
 >

Oh yeah, the mobile-like business model actually dwarves conventional game purchases, by miles. Microtransactions are the big money makers because people are suckers.

Quite frankly, lots of microtransactions exist precisely because the game is not fun to play, so you buy the right to skip it. Think about it.

I mean, take a game such as BallisticNG. It has DLC, you buy the DLC, and as a result you get to play MORE game - the DLCs come with extra tracks, extra challenges, extra ships. You buy the DLC because you like the base game and want more of it.

BallisticNG is the sort of game in which you unlock new tracks, challenges and ships by achieving success on the available game modes. It is not grinding for points, it is achieving victories. Simplifying, If you want to unlock the next set of challenges you have to beat the current ones.

Now, they could sell you a nice MTX that unlocked everything for a modic price, but what would be the point? Buying the game for 15 bucks, then paying 5 more in order to skip all of it? Nonsense! You get your gamepad and beat the game because the game is fun, period, and you get some ship as a reward when you beat all of the precision runs because then you can show it to friends or whatever. And the prize ship is bad as heck, but it does not matter, because you didn't beat the runs for it anyway.

When do you pay in order to skip the game? When the game is borying. You invest into a game then pay so you can skip segments of a game. What that tells me is the game sucks balls. And the problem is every f2p and mobile game does that sort of thing. I don't think playing those games is a healthy dynamic.


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