Yep, it's not killing it for me, but I can also see why it comes across really badly. People don't want to feel like they are being gouged, you'd think companies would learn. And if it is the point of the game then just don't add the option to pay your way around design decisions.

Oh yeah, not justifying it. Just working out how much it would matter to me if I got the game.

Also will be interesting to know why reviewers haven't said anything.

Sneaking micro transactions in on launch day on a €65 single player games just sums things up for me. What a complete shambles this industry has been the past few years. I haven't missed being actively involved one single bit.  

Disgrace.

There's always something for the howling at the moon brigade to be upset about

I'd rather howl at the moon than lube up, bend over and let devs slam me. More fun, to begin with. Depends on how ya swing.

Anally

They're not as I'm not buying it but I love to froth, middle aged now, stops the right wing tendencies kicking in

By putting micro transactions in a single player game? By designing the fast travel system to be tedious - but wait, you can buy items in the shop to help with that. How marvelous. 

Why shouldn't a single player game have micro transactions? They've been in Capcom games for as long as I can remember. Easy enough to just not buy them, isn't it?

The fast travel system is designed to make you traverse and explore the map, which is what the game is about. Same with the first one

Dark Soldier wrote:

I'm a staunch believer in stuff available via microtransaction, if non-cosmetic, should be freely available in game also. It is in game but is rare. SP, MP, progression or mechanic should not be locked, no matter how small the blockage is, behind a pay wall. Even if it's 50p.

I'm also very weak and would buy them so am slammed.

You got plenty of the fast travel stones in the first one, so I'd assume that the same applies here. One extra stone isn't going to make a big difference either way

It's not even that there are micro transactions, I tend not to buy them myself. It's just weird that no one mentioned it in the reviews, even the site that broke the story about the transactions, then oh our reviewer didn't read that bit, can't believe that no reviewer read the review guide. Definitely smacks of the industry wanting people to like and buy this but not educate customers as to what they may or may not want to consider.

paul be paulin’ xoxox

Dark Soldier wrote:

Because its a slippery slope and the more they pump in and profit from, the more appear. The more the main game itself gets affected. The more and more it becomes cash grabs on top of cash grabs.

It's been a aeedy cunt practice for a long time but eh its rhe norm don't spend etc. I've posted about my issues with such things, primarily Fifa, before. If you csn ignore them, grand. My tendencies and problems with addiction just lead to me inevitably buying such shit for fear of missing out, and it's those kinda minds it prays on.

Exactly this. It's gross as fuck tbh.

If they want to let people experience the game the way each one wants, then just let them. Charging them to play how they want seems shitty. I mean if my preference is fast travel then I have to pay whereas someone who doesn't like that way can play with no extra charge.

There seems to be a single player bad, multiplayer acceptable argument here even though it's multiplayer games where these things are giving people an advantage over others who don't pay.

Personally, I couldn't give a flying fuck if people want an extra fast travel crystal in their single player game for a few quid. Doesn't matter to me at all. Impossible for me to summon the rage about it. Some cunt loading into CoD DMZ with a UAV in the back pocket which they've bought with real money? Down with that sort of thing.

I'm not really seeing the slippery slope stuff either. These things have been around since Oblivion horse armour. If they were going to destroy video games they'd have done so by now. This game is not a tick on the doomsday clock, get a grip on reality.

What is weird is people having a pop at me because I'm not going with the pearl clutching and outraged flow