Devil's advocate (Gaming)

by CyberKN , Oh no, Destiny 2 is bad, Sunday, May 29, 2016, 04:32 (3107 days ago) @ cheapLEY

While I personally believe that Microtransactions are an abhorrent practice designed specifically to exploit a certain segment of the population with poor impulse control, Overwatch actually handles it a lot better then most.

There's an in-game currency system in overwatch. Players can only acquire this currrency in two ways:

-As a random drop from Loot-boxes, in various amounts
-If a player gets an item they already own from a Loot-box, that item is converted into a small amount of currency.

Meaning, there's no way to outright buy currency (unless you count buying a large amount of loot-boxes, which will probably give you a fair amount)

You can then use this currency to buy ANY specific cosmetic unlock you want (that is obtainable randomly from Loot-boxes).

The Destiny Equivalent would be having a vendor that sells all Exotics for a certain amount of Exotic shards. So If you really want that Jade Rabbit, but keep getting other exotics, you would be able to eventually just bypass RNG entirely.

It's still dumb that we live in a culture where Microtransactions in Full-Price games are accepted. Hopefully we'll grow out of it.