Micro transactions

[Bootstrap]

Puts me off immediately. Why cant we have a good modern ARPG without them?

[Nefser]

I used to think that, but these are pretty fab.

If you play light/casual, you don't really need to spend anything. However, if you've jumped into early access, then the credit you get will be worth picking up some stash tabs to store loot, skill gems, etc.

They are open about it and people can decide what they want. It helps fund their development (i.e., in their opinion, better than a single charge for the game), so everyone get's to decide what sort of investment they make into it.

I've spent far less on PoE than I recieved in value (probably < £20-30), so I will just decide what I'll do for PoE 2, as 1) I get to keep my current purchased stash tabs and 2) I now have 300 credit to spend in the shop.

[Kostoprav]

Can't be helped. PoE 1 is free game which offers like 10k hrs of gameplay and PoE 2 will be free on full release. GGG as a company needs money not only to just keep servers running but also to improve and innovate and they have 10 years track record of not ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ up their Micro Transactions policies.

[Bacuda]

Originally posted by Bootstrap:

Puts me off immediately. Why cant we have a good modern ARPG without them?

I mean micro transactions suck, they always have and always will, but it also depends what kind of microtransactions, if there's no actual power you can buy with irl money then it's not as bad, besides, the game is free to play, how else are they going to make their money back, you can't expect them to do it for free.

[Mr_Mojo]

Originally posted by Bootstrap:

Puts me off immediately. Why cant we have a good modern ARPG without them?

How do you expect the people that work for this game to get paid?

[侍Kage]

How do you think devs will earn money then? Can you buy a coffee and say i wish this coffee didn't cost money and it was free. Does it makes sense to you? There is MTX but it's nothing related to p2w items, just mandatory stash tabs, you can buy those like the real cost of the game price, 30$ pack gives you enough coins for it. Then you'll be good forever and ignore mtx completely. How is this not a good deal?

[Gh0st]

It's a free game when it launches, they need to make money of some kind to keep the game running. It's either MTX that you can choose to buy, or a forced purchase of the game. GGG handles their MTXs better than 99% of other companies. What is it that you want them to do?

[radekim]

TQ 2 incoming to ♥♥♥♥ on MTXs. With endless stash. Yep

[BadToast]

It makes more money than paid games so every dev does it.

It's why every developer is trying to force a live service game even if they fail. Only need to succeed once and you have a guaranteed revenue stream with tons of income to make up for all the failures.

[Echo]

Here's the thing, MTX in poe is most often pay to lose especially skill MTX or MTX with tons of effects, you buy the MTX, you equip it thinking this thing makes you better than others, then you run a map, it kills your frame rate and increase your input lag then you meet a big group of monster, you attack and then suddenly the lag intensifies and due to that, three things can happen, your character either died or your game crashes or even better your game just logout for you and you will be facing the login screen again.

[Kopejka]

Originally posted by Echo:

you equip it thinking this thing makes you better than others

Pretty sure everyone who pays for mtx in this game knows its only cosmetic and doesn't give you any advantages

[Euphytose]

Originally posted by radekim:

TQ 2 incoming to ♥♥♥♥ on MTXs. With endless stash. Yep

TQ2 won't have multiplayer at the start of Early Access.

I loved and played TQ1 to death, but they're shooting themselves in the foot by doing this.

[EthicalPixel]

its the day and age we live in. few companies are going to leave that money on the table knowing how eager people are to buy skins at least with poe its their main source of income

Originally posted by Bootstrap:

Puts me off immediately. Why cant we have a good modern ARPG without them?

[Nico]

Because it is very hard to make a free2play game without microtransactions or DLC's that still manages to actually earn enough money to pay the developers.

[Bootstrap]

Originally posted by Mr_Mojo:

Originally posted by Bootstrap:

Puts me off immediately. Why cant we have a good modern ARPG without them?

How do you expect the people that work for this game to get paid?

Sell the game for full price. I'd happily pay $70 to avoid having to set my eyes on a cancerous, immersion breaking cash shop.

[xXBulletJusticeXx]

Originally posted by Bootstrap:

Puts me off immediately. Why cant we have a good modern ARPG without them?

Because GGG makes a fabulous game and deserves to be paid compensation for their efforts.

The microtrans in this game are purely cosmetic. (EDIT) aside from stash tabs, but that's to help offset costs of server space.