Re: The gate is on sale
Mainstream games are underpriced compared to the cost of production. Hence, microtransactions out the wazoo. Yes, AAA games crush the so-called quality of commercial audio games like the superficial crunchberries they are, but AAA games also have a guaranteed audience that outnumbers every person who has ever heard of audio games by an order of magnitude or two. Maybe three. And that audience actually has money and buys things.
So we either get more Kickstarters, overpriced games, Microtransactions, or we just wait for another miracle.
And to have microtransactions, you have to have a bucket of content worth the microtransactions. Like, if there were special Manamon you could only unlock by paying for the DLC, that might make sense. How in the world would reasonable DLC for The Gate or Psycho Strike work?
And microtransactions are kinda ... terrible, in general. They tend to devolve to pay-to-win crap, or cheating on in-game currency, or something like that. Sometimes they can be flashy but mostly useless perks that primarily matter for MMOs, or showing off to friends, or something. And really, who wants to pay for the game, only to have to pay again, and again, and again, or be taunted by content too small to be worth a whole game on its own? And yet, without that, AAA games would cost, like, $100 on launch.
(Oh, hey, I guess the BK3 English dictionary counts as DLC, kinda. Welcome to the future. There are cookies, but they will give you diabetes. There is internet, but it will give you politicitis. There are games, but they have paid downloadable content. Bwahahahaha!)
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