My problem with the microtransactions is that they gutted the customization to boster the number of crap items to piecemeal out with RNG, and half-made the maps to justify it.
Armors - We can no longer interchange parts because they wanted to pile on a crap-ton of re-skinned copies, just so they could say “175 Armor Sets” when the real number is only half that. There is only ONE set of armor you can legitimately work for; all the rest you just have to pray they fall into your lap at some point.
Maps - “Free DLC”. Yeah. After a bunch of boring launch maps, I’d be pretty mad if they charged money for more maps. First of all, they lied about having 20-ish maps at launch when in reality there are only like seven crappy, soulless metal boxes slapped together with a gaggle of ramps and corridors like a godda** Unreal Tournament map.
On top of that, they’ve already confirmed at least a portion of the BTB “maps” were made in Forge by Forgers, and they counted Forge maps in the vanilla game’s map count, so who’s to say the “Community Cartographer” maps won’t be part of those “15 DLC’s”?
Emblems - Same as armors; Gut the system and piecemeal them out as “sets” to bolster the REQ system.
So while the REQ system may not be directly detrimental to players, it’d be foolish to say that it hasn’t had a negative effect on the game.