Xbox One Exclusive Ryse Will Feature Microtransactions
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Yea, they're still missing one or two checkboxes on the whole AAA rip-off cliche. The most unique feature in all this is that they fucked up their naming, and made it sound like a LoL champion got his own game.BrotherRool said:
I feel truly sorry for the ones whose job it is to satirize this.
If a high profile launch title is working mincrotransactions into its game then i can already see so many others following suit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX8szNPgrEs
The future of gaming is going to become microtransaction rubbish... inch by inch by inch. Sigh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX8szNPgrEs
The future of gaming is going to become microtransaction rubbish... inch by inch by inch. Sigh
... You just HAD to ninja me with exterminatus, didn't you?Cecilo said:
OT: It is quite sad, really. I don't mean situation with this particular game, but in general. I just hope that only the smallest part of companies will continue this scheme, and will drop it in the end.
This is one of the things I could not forgive Mass Effect 3 for (it's ending doesn't even bother me).
This is the nadir of micro-transactions, it's doing almost everything you shouldn't. Hell, as far as I'm concerned micro-transactions shouldn't even exist in a fucking $60 game, optional or not. DLC is one thing since it can be argued all day what qualifies as cut content, but micro-transactions exist solely as an alternate path to something you could already get anyway. This isn't being done because it will be fun, it's being done for more money and Crytek so freaking knows it.
To me, Ryse represents everything currently wrong with the industry, and how it will be brought into the next-gen. Blowing insane amounts of money to try and impress people with the most advanced graphics, you-can't-lose gameplay like an overprotective mother, and now trying to make up the exorbitant costs by pitting peoples patience against their wallet.
If ever you needed a justification that games aren't art (they are though) then look no further. This isn't being made for some grand creative purpose or because people would enjoy it. This is a game engineered to try and make money first and foremost, and concepts like fun, engagement, or creativity were likely tossed out the window as acceptable sacrifices.
This is the nadir of micro-transactions, it's doing almost everything you shouldn't. Hell, as far as I'm concerned micro-transactions shouldn't even exist in a fucking $60 game, optional or not. DLC is one thing since it can be argued all day what qualifies as cut content, but micro-transactions exist solely as an alternate path to something you could already get anyway. This isn't being done because it will be fun, it's being done for more money and Crytek so freaking knows it.
To me, Ryse represents everything currently wrong with the industry, and how it will be brought into the next-gen. Blowing insane amounts of money to try and impress people with the most advanced graphics, you-can't-lose gameplay like an overprotective mother, and now trying to make up the exorbitant costs by pitting peoples patience against their wallet.
If ever you needed a justification that games aren't art (they are though) then look no further. This isn't being made for some grand creative purpose or because people would enjoy it. This is a game engineered to try and make money first and foremost, and concepts like fun, engagement, or creativity were likely tossed out the window as acceptable sacrifices.
I remember when people were so excited for this game.
Ah? good times?
And then it was actually shown, and we've been going downhill ever since.
Ah? good times?
And then it was actually shown, and we've been going downhill ever since.
It's funny how much I was able to forgive Mass Effect 3 for when it came to this. The combination of fresh, decent multiplayer gameplay in a series I (Used to?) like combined with multiple free content packs and my own willingness to try new tactics out regularly meant the booster-pack system didn't bother me, despite my understanding of people who weren't fans of the setup. After all, it was Mass Effect! Shut up and take my money!
This? This game lost the benefit of the doubt a long time ago.
This? This game lost the benefit of the doubt a long time ago.
By combining the oh-so-beloved "pay-to-win" and "press-x-to-not-die" schools of game design, they have found the way of the future: "press X to waste money".
It's a button masher... why would you need help with that first off all and who the fuck wants to play god of war online? That would be the most boring thing on earth where we basically flail at each other until an execution button appears. Or it ends up as another horde mode.
Hmm, do any of these packs allow to actually play the game without it being nothing but QTEs that don't even result in any possibility of failure?
As I understand it, that is one way to get the characters if you want to, but not the only way. I thought it was buy the game, or if you prefer you can play it piecemeal with just the characters you're interested in.RJ 17 said:
As for the point of this article and RYSE, well I wouldn't have bought that game anyway. But it's still pretty despicable.
Last I checked, Perfect Dark Zero actually had some hype and some potential behind it.MCerberus said:
Ryse is a laughingstock through and through.
This "fee-to-pay" system, as Jim so eloquently put it, is getting fucking out of hand.
It's just a money grab and it's boring. Games are suffering for it.
Multiplayer is now 100% about milking your customers like cows and making sure they're on the treadmill.
I remember when just making a fun game to play online, like Unreal Tournament or Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, was all it took.
I'm not going to tell people what they should do with their money, but damn there are better things than this.
Moreover, this system sounds like gambling to me. In Japan, they recently had to put an age restriction on games using similar systems to this as the courts considered it to be to gambling with real money.
It's just a money grab and it's boring. Games are suffering for it.
Multiplayer is now 100% about milking your customers like cows and making sure they're on the treadmill.
I remember when just making a fun game to play online, like Unreal Tournament or Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, was all it took.
I'm not going to tell people what they should do with their money, but damn there are better things than this.
Moreover, this system sounds like gambling to me. In Japan, they recently had to put an age restriction on games using similar systems to this as the courts considered it to be to gambling with real money.
