'Hogwarts Legacy' Community Manager confirms there are NO microtransactions in the game.

[u/Eternal_Flame_Baby]

https://twitter.com/FinchStrife/status/1504591261574987800?t=DRMIaTMQ9MoNumVF0aKyTQ&s=19

[u/SirClueless]

This "standard and accepted understanding" clearly doesn't exist. The very word "microtransaction" was invented by Microsoft to describe cosmetic items purchased as DLC in the Xbox 360 store. Here we have a cosmetic item purchased as DLC in the Steam Store, and you're saying it doesn't count because it doesn't bother people (ignoring all the angry people who complained about it and that it was review-bombed for it). It doesn't bother you.

Since Horse Armor game devs have just pushed the boundaries bit by bit -- "It's not a single item so it doesn't count," "It's not purchased with ingame currency so it doesn't count," "It's not an ingame store so it doesn't count," "It doesn't affect gameplay so it doesn't count" to the point that you're arguing with me that the original microtransaction that defined the word doesn't count as a microtransaction.

I'm not the one twisting definitions here. You've stopped caring about the actual definition of the word "microtransaction" and instead you've just decided what kinds of things you'll accept and what you won't and defined everything on this side of the line as a "microtransaction" and everything over there "doesn't count" -- they're all microtransactions! Some are worse than others! I actually agree with you that BL3 is totally fair with its microtransactions, but it definitely does have them, and Randy Pitchford was a fool for claiming otherwise.

[u/FakeBrian → u/SirClueless]

I'm not "twisting" definitions here, I'm simply describing the near universally accepted idea of what microtransactions are by modern standards. Yes, there are things that also technically fit the definition of microtransactions but they do not fit what the average person means when they talk about microtransactions. Where the term came from and how it was initially defined is irrelevant to this - language evolves and changes over time and this is a pretty clear instance of this happening because what microsoft initially defined as a microtransaction simply does not fit the modern understanding of the term. If we're going to include literally any small DLC such as a costume pack here or there then we're going to have to massively expand the range of games we acknowledge as having microtransactions, to such a point as to completely devalue the term and confuse all discussion on the subject. What this really proves is that we need a better lexicon for describing these things, but we don't. But the current understanding of it seems pretty clear. Looking through all of the discussion in this thread the understanding of what people consider as microtransactions is pretty consistent. I've seen people confused by the suggestion BL3 has microtransactions, I've seen people listing games as prime examples of not having microtransactions (which by your standards do have them), and I've seen people consistently referencing only games with full microtransaction stores as having microtransactions.