Microtransactions (Gaming)

by Xenos , Shores of Time, Sunday, May 29, 2016, 16:58 (3103 days ago) @ Kahzgul

For all of these things, the players have no means of guaranteeing that what they are buying is in any way worthwhile. There are no legal protections to force the company to deliver on its promises of "your microtransaction fees pay for future development." There's no recourse if you feel like you've been ripped off. And there's no guarantee that there isn't some kind of super shady algorithm working behind the scenes to figure out who is willing to pay money when RNG screwed and then RNG screw them over and over, or - conversely - give favorable outcomes to people who paid money over F2P players.

I would say that there is SOME accountability needed on both sides here though. Buying microtransactions just to support "future development" is not why they expect people to buy them. I'm loving Overwatch, and they put in microtrasactions to help them pay for future maps and characters, which will be released for free. Does that mean that their obligated to give X amount of content in the future for my microtransaction today? Absolutely not, because they straight up tell me what I'm getting for my money: a loot box like every other loot box I earn when I level up. That's not worth it to me so I have no plans to ever buy any loot boxes from them, but it's about the merit to you personally for the purchase that matters. As far as pay to win, they are never successful in mainstream gaming (mobile is a strange space).