re: Rolling Stone Article: COD files patent to base matchmaking off of microtransactions

You did.

Here's an interesting question for the Gaming Board since we are all on the topic: Would you pay $80-90-100 for a game nowadays if it meant the Devs didn't leave anything up to microtransactions, updates, DLC.

not talking about DLC 4 months later with new maps. I've talking about when games and their Devs make usually standard included content out and calling it "DLC".

If you think about it: the price of a video game hasn't gone up in 15-20 years. So maybe this forces Devs to take this microtransaction path.


(credit to another backchannel for bringing up this counter)

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Trying to "keep up" even ruined Overwatch for me. I felt like if I wasn't playing every day and buying loot boxes, I was losing ground.

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This makes no sense for Overwatch. There is nothing you can get from a loot box that gives any type of competitive advantage.

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if it meant the Devs didn't leave anything up to microtransactions

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Microtransactions are going nowhere.

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Here's an interesting question for the Gaming Board since we are all on the topic: Would you pay $80-90-100 for a game nowadays if it meant the Devs didn't leave anything up to microtransactions, updates, DLC.

not talking about DLC 4 months later with new maps. I've talking about when games and their Devs make usually standard included content out and calling it "DLC".

If you think about it: the price of a video game hasn't gone up in 15-20 years. So maybe this forces Devs to take this microtransaction path.


(credit to another backchannel for bringing up this counter)

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Well, maybe companies have to rethink how big and how expensive their games need to be. The cost of games is directly related to the relentless pursuit of power over anything else.

Devs aren't "forced" to take the microtransaction path because they aren't "forced" to make games with twice the budget of games from 5 or so years ago. That's a choice that they make.

Maybe if they would have slowed down, they could have reduced burden on development creating more efficient technical systems to handle escalating technical scale.

The price of games haven't gone up because they know they the market won't support $100 games. There is more than one choice, though, in how to proceed.