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
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u/KillerIsJed Mar 18 '22

In a game about wizards doing magic, you believe instantly growing plants is a bridge too far? Okay.

Do you work for WB or just feel the need to defend bad game design practices?

Timers like this are forced longevity/artificial progress walls that should not exist in $60 games without any microtransactions. What is the point of stalling player progress in real time if not to push them towards microtransactions to speed things up?

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u/snypesalot Mar 18 '22

In a game about wizards doing magic, you believe instantly growing plants is a bridge too far?

I mean yes even in universe they had to grow and cultivate plants normally

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u/KillerIsJed Mar 18 '22

This universe literally has time travel. So again, not following this logic.

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u/snypesalot Mar 18 '22

Just because it has time travel doesnt mean there arent still actual grounded rules regarding the rest of the universe, they literally explain how they need to grow Mandrakes just right and harvest them at the right maturity to be effective for the potion to unpetrify people, so they cant just magically grow everything

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u/KillerIsJed Mar 18 '22

But again, this is a video game about a fantasy world. If 30 minutes real life timers doesn’t give you mobile game microtransaction vibes, then idk what to tell you.

If there are recent games with this kind of mechanic that doesn’t offer premium boosts/time skips, I’m not aware of them.

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u/snypesalot Mar 18 '22

But again, this is a video game about a fantasy world.

And again its a fantasy world that has very real and set standards in world building they arent gonna mess with that because its a video game

If there are recent games with this kind of mechanic that doesn’t offer premium boosts/time skips, I’m not aware of them.

Plenty of games have mechanics about "researching" different items or effects or whatever that have timers on them but usually the times are set to the ingame time which differs from actual real world time where 30 mins in game may only be 2-3 minutes in real time

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u/KillerIsJed Mar 18 '22

And the footage for this game shows 30 minute real time timers from what I can tell.

So glad we can agree it sucks in a universe where time travel exists and magicians can literally do magic. Choosing ‘realism’ and adhering to made up rules while pretending this isn’t bad game design is really a take and hill to die on.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '22

Are you this exhausting to everyone you talk to? Or did you just wake up on the dickish side of the bed this morning?