Agreeable-Display-77 t1_j0xim36 wrote on December 20, 2022 at 3:34 AM

Reply to comment by Light_Error in Epic Games to Pay $520 Million Over Children’s Privacy and Trickery Charges by 08830

Wish all of you would stop buying the additional trash. Believe it or not. Companies used to only have map packs to make money off of. It made them step it up on making awesome game modes that people wanted to play for a long time. They needed people to buy copies, and then maps later. Sometimes they even gave map packs free to bring more people in. Madden had Squads with regular team ranked mode. Could name your squad and everything. Halo used to bring out new maps constantly. Many for free. It was awesome. Let them make their $69 or $59 and thats it. We dont want game modes that need spending money to be competitive, and we dont need skins. We need good games.

Light_Error t1_j0xm7rp wrote on December 20, 2022 at 4:04 AM

I don’t buy lootboxes or anything. My point was that something that can seem benign in one company’s hand, like Fortnite in OP’s post, can be taken to greater extremes than thought before. I saw it happen to both the app stores and games over a decade plus. There are degrees of badness that can be discussed while still agreeing they shouldn’t be there. I am with you though on the wish for games to have less ways to spend. The only stuff I ever buy is stuff that’d be equivalent to expansion packs on PC back in the day.