Macrotransaction - would be more appropriate.
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map packs are in my opinion infinitely worse than not being able to put blue on my spartan. You are literally barred from half of your matches if you don’t pay for them, and some people just can’t afford that extra $15 per map pack.
At least with cosmetics they can still play but have to be fine with a different shade of blue.
You use pounds (£) but say chips… what kind of monstrosity are you.
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but thats what it is…
Haha, I say crisps but I put potato chips for the Americanos.
I usually just put stuff in dollars as that’s what the majority of the people on here seem to use but I forgot this time around.
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To add insult to injury, these cosmetics could be fit into the Season Pass if they would just take out all the Challenge Swaps and Xp Boosts.
That’s because they aren’t microtransactions, they’re macrotransactions. People should be calling them what they are, macro.
Dota 2 was the first to have a battle pass.
I’m fine with the challenge swaps in the Battle Pass, but they shouldn’t take over actual item spots like they are. Each tier should give you an item or shop currency and then the challenge swaps should just be an extra item we get every few levels to help out with the impossible challenges.
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You’re right, I’ll start calling the $20 armor bundles “megatransactions” instead. Micro is misleading. :]
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Umm they are technically called micro-transactions even if the naming is sort of different to what it was originally meant to mean but what else are we going to call them? it’s not as if there content is like an expansion due to the predatory system. Yes I do agree since I blame mobile games too and that’s why I generally avoid mobile games and 343i are just reminding of that fact since there pushing their luck with the MT predatory system and I’ve had enough of F2P games.
This. Right here.
I had a moment of revelation about microtransactions one morning as my DnD group was called off and I then had no reason to get my starbucks that day, as I always did before sessions. I’d booted up this card game app I played and they were running a $5 deal for a decent amount of stuff and the thought crossed my mind that I’d enjoy this for a longer span of time than getting that drink. Suddenly all the domino’s clicked in place that so much of what we buy IRL is frivolous from others’ views and at least digital stuff can have a longer lasting life of enjoyment than the effects of an espresso.
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We’ve already seen the reach armor in the shop.
Too many iterations of people being okay with this lead us to this. Its only going to get worse. It doesn’t help that in some regions of the world microtransactions and pay to win are considered fine.
Every time a person tells you to stop complaining, that its only a beta or alpha or flight, or first patch, they are enabling this behavior.
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Yeah, they’re extremely blown up prices. The worst part about it is you don’t even really get anything for the money you spend. I’d have less of a problem with it if they gave you enough content for the money you’re spending. But oh well, they messed up. I was gonna buy the campaign on steam for $60, the battle pass for $10, and likely spend $100 or more throughout the lifetime of the game. Now they get nothing. I’ll play the campaign for free on game pass, not buy anything from the store, and MAYBE buy the battle pass with Microsoft Reward Points and make them pay for it. I encourage everyone else to do the same.
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Yep its full blown price gouging and diagusting to see. This game is a trainwreck of failure, incompetence, and greed.
But its only cosmetic people have ruined gaming
But thats what there called 
But meh textures are ruinin’ meh gameplay.
Macrotransactions more like.
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