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@zaratustra

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their "uncompromising design" sure got compromised real quick

i'm gonna commit a cardinal sin now

i'm gonna say something whose conclusions align me, however temporarily, with a gamer opinion

listen i'm sorry capcom dressed up your own personal dark souls with a hideous Freddy Fazbear suit of microtransactions and now everyone hates it but take it up with capcom

capcom are the people that loyally botched the game's first impression

capcom decided to try to use steam's shit DLC system designed to sell single-purchase upgrades to the Shovel Knight campaign as some kind of candy aisle where you can purchase all flavours of Fast Travel A through J

when you go "oh sure there's microtransactions but you don't really need to look at them it's a perfectly okay game really you can grind for any single-use fast travel items you need" you're doing capcom's job, which is to hold back on their primordial, all consuming greed for five minutes in order to make people consider buying a game

nobody has to enjoy seeing microtransactions, not if they're unnecessary, not if capcom has been doing this shit for five or ten or a hundred years

nobody has to give the newbie inexperienced capcom a "break"

nobody needs to accept a little mold in their food "you can just eat around it i don't see why you're complaining" no have some self-respect for god's sakes

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Kayin
@Kayin

I hate this because on one hand I agree, even though I'm doing capcom's job, but at the same time it's so fucking infuriating that they've been doing this FOREVER and it has ALWAYS sucked but the weird game comes out and everyone is like "Can you BELIEVE IT??? That they'd REALLY DO THAT???" while I'm playing SF6 with only two colors for every character, being offered the shittiest fucking battle passes, seeing things that made the ACTUAL END PRODUCT WORSE and people like.. idk, they grumbled a bit and then shrugged. Like THAT'S compromised design. The candy aisle before the register is shitty but it doesn't compromise my milk.

This is like if people finally started hating ripoff "Pre Order Special Editions", something I've been rallying against FOR YEARS, and they did it with DD2 of all games. I'd fucking eat every last motherfucker on twitter I swear to god

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JustDecker
@JustDecker

It is unfortunate to agree with the Gamers, but you're right.

It is 2USD to change your character appearance in a single player game. Something that could be done with a save editor or modding tool (which also opens the door for them to crack down on modding tools)

But more importantly, people who play games tend to be able to remember things. So that item bears the weight of the micro transaction. Whenever you find one in game or see it in a shop. That little flaw you made in character creation you want to change. Every time you think about using the fast travel. That all makes you remember the cruft of the micro transaction every time you see it.

It's not just "you can eat around the mold" but "try to not think about the mold you can see while eating."

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