I agree with the optimizations, but the MTX here really isn’t that bad by modern gaming standards. It’s “pay for convenience” where the convenience is getting some items a little faster. I believe all the MTX are available in game and not that hard to get.
The port crystals are the worst offense, but I don’t think anyone knows how bad it is yet. I’ve tried to look up how many there are in game, and all I found is there’s a soft cap at 10, where any more isn’t useful, but I’m not actually certain that’s even true or some AI generated crap that pulled info from the first game that had the same system.
The game does run fairly poorly though, which absolutely should get all the shit it’s getting.
Yeah, no. I don’t agree with those new modem standards because why in the world would you pay for glorified cheats? We used to get them for free! It’s corporate greed just wanting to extract every single cent out of you.
Sure, but are you consistent? Do you also rail against Helldivers 2, the Resident Evil Remakes, and all the rest? (I literally can’t think of more because I avoid almost everything like this.) I totally agree that it sucks, and it creates a situation where the games end up designed to be worse in order to sell the solution.
However, this game it looks to me like the director had pretty much as much control as is possible. The MTX are very minor and not all that useful. It seems to me (no personal experience yet) that the only people who will be buying these MTX are people with way too much money to spend, and it really won’t do much for them. In this situation I’m really not that bothered by them, despite being one of the strongest opponents of MTX generally. It’s just that if you decide you hate every game with MTX you can’t play modern games at all.
As an additional fun fact, Bethesda, creators of the infamous Horse Armor DLC, actually had an additional crystal-based teleport option DLC for their diegetic-only fast travel game Morrowind. This was in 2002 before this was really even heard of, but it was luckily free in this instance. Just a weird bit of synchronicity. https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Master_Index
I agree with the optimizations, but the MTX here really isn’t that bad by modern gaming standards. It’s “pay for convenience” where the convenience is getting some items a little faster. I believe all the MTX are available in game and not that hard to get.
The port crystals are the worst offense, but I don’t think anyone knows how bad it is yet. I’ve tried to look up how many there are in game, and all I found is there’s a soft cap at 10, where any more isn’t useful, but I’m not actually certain that’s even true or some AI generated crap that pulled info from the first game that had the same system.
The game does run fairly poorly though, which absolutely should get all the shit it’s getting.
Yeah, no. I don’t agree with those new modem standards because why in the world would you pay for glorified cheats? We used to get them for free! It’s corporate greed just wanting to extract every single cent out of you.
Sure, but are you consistent? Do you also rail against Helldivers 2, the Resident Evil Remakes, and all the rest? (I literally can’t think of more because I avoid almost everything like this.) I totally agree that it sucks, and it creates a situation where the games end up designed to be worse in order to sell the solution.
However, this game it looks to me like the director had pretty much as much control as is possible. The MTX are very minor and not all that useful. It seems to me (no personal experience yet) that the only people who will be buying these MTX are people with way too much money to spend, and it really won’t do much for them. In this situation I’m really not that bothered by them, despite being one of the strongest opponents of MTX generally. It’s just that if you decide you hate every game with MTX you can’t play modern games at all.
As an additional fun fact, Bethesda, creators of the infamous Horse Armor DLC, actually had an additional crystal-based teleport option DLC for their diegetic-only fast travel game Morrowind. This was in 2002 before this was really even heard of, but it was luckily free in this instance. Just a weird bit of synchronicity. https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Master_Index