Ananasdoener@feddit.org to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 2 months agoMarvel Rivals' latest gambit is seeing whether you'll pay real money for colourswww.rockpapershotgun.comexternal-linkmessage-square9linkfedilinkarrow-up153arrow-down11cross-posted to: gaming@lemmy.zip
arrow-up152arrow-down1external-linkMarvel Rivals' latest gambit is seeing whether you'll pay real money for colourswww.rockpapershotgun.comAnanasdoener@feddit.org to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square9linkfedilinkcross-posted to: gaming@lemmy.zip
minus-squareMagiilaro@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·2 months agoBlizzard tried this with the Dark Pathways Bundle for Diablo 4 before, 30$ to change the colors of the Town portals. Was not very successful!
minus-squarebrsrklf@jlai.lulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·2 months agoInfamously Dead or Alive did that with character hair colours. That is, not paying to unlock the option, not even paying to unlock individual colours to swap them when you want : you’d have to pay every time you wanted to change a character’s hair.
minus-squareMentalEdge@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down1·2 months agoI love fighting games. But holy fuck is the monetization some of the most outrageous I’ve seen.
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minus-squareampersandrew@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoGenre wide? I wouldn’t say so.
minus-squarePolarKraken@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months ago“Dark Pathways” indeed, really telling on themselves lmao
Blizzard tried this with the Dark Pathways Bundle for Diablo 4 before, 30$ to change the colors of the Town portals. Was not very successful!
Infamously Dead or Alive did that with character hair colours. That is, not paying to unlock the option, not even paying to unlock individual colours to swap them when you want : you’d have to pay every time you wanted to change a character’s hair.
I love fighting games.
But holy fuck is the monetization some of the most outrageous I’ve seen.
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Genre wide? I wouldn’t say so.
“Dark Pathways” indeed, really telling on themselves lmao