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[–] nac82@lemm.ee 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

How did none of the critic reviews catch any of these issues?

[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Iirc the microtransactions were put into the final game on release. I guess also all of the dlc - they probably had everything unlocked for reviewers, and then locked it for players buying the game.

[–] nac82@lemm.ee 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 9 points 7 months ago

For any other industry it would literally be "bait & switch" fraud.

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This seems to happen more and more lately.

It's misleading and scummy as fuck, and I won't be picking up the game because of it.

[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

Sure, but gaming boycotts don't work. That's why they are doing this. They rake in tons of money and alienate maybe 1% of their userbase. The reason is simple. The first paid mount microtransaction in World of Warcraft made more money than the entirety of Starcraft 2 Wings of Liberty. They won't care about reviews - sales will go through the roof anyway, and they'll rake in a shitload of cash on microtransactions.

[–] zagaberoo@beehaw.org 2 points 7 months ago

Because they want to keep receiving review copies of games.