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JESUS CHRIST at the amount of suckers talking about MTX being okay in this game because "yOu CaN eArN tHe ItEmS iNgAmE" are missing the point!
Good lord, what happened to being in an uproar about horse armor DLC? I miss those days!
If you add 20+ items of "DLC" into a singleplayer game THE FIRST DAY, you deserve for your company to go belly up. Full stop.
I'm not against the idea of MTX, I think there's a place for them. For instance I don't mind if a game sells deluxe edition upgrade as a MTX because that's ultimately pro-consumer. Without that option you're either going to have to bite the bullet and hope you enjoy the game or pay extra to get the same game twice if you do enjoy it enough. I know I used that option with BG3.
That said, selling in game resources as MTX is fucking stupid. It's just fundamentally incompatible with good games. If the resources are abundant there's no reason to sell them as MTX. If they're scarce then they're either deliberately scarce for the purpose of selling the MTX which is just scummy, or they're scarce for some other reason (like if you don't want to make fast traveling everywhere easily accessible) then selling that resource as MTX just undermines the purpose of the scarcity.
Deluxe editions of games are anti-consumer even if it is an upgrade. Just sell the whole fucking game to me or don't sell anything at all.
So you'd much rather pay $60 for helldivers 2 than $40? Because that's the monetary difference between standard and deluxe.
Deluxe editions are generally for people who want extra fluff in their game. Not everyone wants the fluff and they shouldn't pay for things they don't want. Your idea "makes sense" only if you assume they're going to give away deluxe stuff for free and the final price of the product doesn't increase, which frankly is just naive thinking.