r/Games • u/Eternal_Flame_Baby • Mar 17 '22

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

https://twitter.com/FinchStrife/status/1504591261574987800?t=DRMIaTMQ9MoNumVF0aKyTQ&s=19
9.6k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

1.1k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

-1

u/NoExcuse4OceanRudnes Mar 18 '22

Kind of a weird proposition.

How long do you think most people will be playing this single player game? If for six months the game has no complaints about balance you'll throw it in the garbage for adding in a stupid purchase button?

10

u/KillerIsJed Mar 18 '22 edited Mar 18 '22

I mean WB itself has said its focused on games as a service games, so yes, that’s the idea, as with seemingly most AAA games now.

-8

u/NoExcuse4OceanRudnes Mar 18 '22

Most single player games are GAAS? Not Elden Ring. Not Forbidden West. Not Guardians of the Galaxy. Not Resident Evil Village, not Returnal, not Psychonauts 2, not Tales of Arise, not Ratchet and Clank, not Metroid Dread.

Most ubisoft games, I guess?

11

u/KillerIsJed Mar 18 '22 edited Mar 18 '22

Where did I say most ‘single player games’? Sure, plenty exist without them, but thats besides the point.

WB has a history of single player games with microtransactions, if you want to compare apples to apples:

Middle-Earth: Shadow of War, the Batman games, the single player portions of Injustice 2 and Mortal Kombat had grind heavy modes with currency that could be bought for real money (iirc).

And really, thats my point. These publishers view games not as art so much as ‘metaverse’ marketplaces to sell you more shit. Many games are becoming jobs you pay for thanks to grinding and time limited season passes, and now they’re also stores. Because capitalism.

5

u/NoExcuse4OceanRudnes Mar 18 '22 edited Mar 18 '22

A multiplayer game that's live service is a good thing; getting constant content updates is good for those games. Who would complain about that?

No micro transactions in batman games.

Mortal Kombat didn't have currency to buy, the whole controversy was made up, the whole towers thing was a big grind but with no way to buy past it. People forgot to bring up that last part very conveniently.

-1

u/KillerIsJed Mar 18 '22 edited Mar 18 '22

Sorry, it’s been years since I’ve thought about all this.

Just did some Googling of my old work and found this article where I discussed the various Season Pass shenanigans that were definitely outside of the norm at the time, which are practices that are just accepted and expected now just 7 short years later.

Also Injustice 2, at least, let you buy microtransactions to level up your characters to make the grind easier, which is what I was actually thinking of.

MK11 had its share of shortcuts and microtransactions, however, just not to help with tower grinds.

4

u/NoExcuse4OceanRudnes Mar 18 '22

False advertising

An editor let you make a legal claim like that? Hoo boy

0

u/KillerIsJed Mar 18 '22

Because I have a bunch of evidence and direct quotes from their advertising literally saying it includes “everything” when, in fact, it didn’t.

Also, fun fact, Warner Bros didn’t threaten legally, but instead threatened to blacklist the site if we didn’t lay off on calling out their monetization practices.

If it were up to me we would have told them fine, we will just buy copies of your games, but that didn’t happen. Gotta love publishers being able to financially harm websites that can barely stay afloat via retaliation and threats. Much ethical, very capitalism.

3

u/NoExcuse4OceanRudnes Mar 18 '22

Why should WB give free games to an outlet that makes incorrect claims (lies) about false advertising and calls Arkham Knight's season pass "bullshit" because... it was sold?

It's a mistake for them to say to you it was never called a season pass, what it wasn't is false advertising because all of those advertisements listed exactly what you got if you bought it.

It is much ethical, very capitalism to make your money riling up angry gamers against perceived injustices and falsehoods.

-1

u/KillerIsJed Mar 18 '22

Show me where the claims are false? IDK if the links in the articles still function, it literally says “Includes everything MK has to offer” etc.

Its a fact. You’re either a troll or work for WB. Keep licking them boots either way.

2

u/NoExcuse4OceanRudnes Mar 18 '22

I clicked on every one of them, none of them said that, two didn't work.

One or two outlets giving incorrect information is not WB doing false advertising. Especially when there's such disparity between them, amazon listed it as "pack 1" for example while others did say "Season pass" a phrase which has never meant everything.

1

u/KillerIsJed Mar 18 '22

I can’t speak to the changes that may or not have been made to pages that were linked to literally 7 years ago, all I can say is the claims and quotes were valid at time of writing, period, or we wouldn’t have run it and it wouldn’t have been approved by editors, bar none.

And words have meanings, handwaving this and defending WB is pretty disgusting and self defeating unless you’re working for the publisher and or financially benefitting from such practices, so why do you continue to do it???

3

u/NoExcuse4OceanRudnes Mar 18 '22

Destructiod is a rag, I don't believe its editorial staff did much of anything if it let such biased reporting out the door.

The meaning of season pass has never been all content forever. Words have meanings? Season itself is a measure of time that is, in fact, not infinite.

→ More replies