You'll need to pay to edit your Monster Hunter Wilds character beyond the first free redo
Capcom's latest beast-slaying sim comes with some familiar cheeky DLC.
In the grand scheme of nickel-and-diming I wouldn't call this abysmal
This is the mentality that ruins it for the rest of us. It's shameful.
Well scratch that off of a game I will ever play
Well, that and all the people buying the game full price day one. Even here on Lemmy I've seen comments unapologetically saying they bought it minute one, day one.
It's kind of disgusting to see, tbh.
What exactly is the issue with buying it minute one day one exactly? How many minutes, hours, or days after release do they have to wait to avoid your arbitrarily defined disgust?
counterpoint: it's the far more prevalent mentality of "blaming foolish consumers" that ruins it for the rest of us.
Expecting consumers to ever do differently at scale is a dead-end fantasy we all need to stop having.
Only market regulation stops manipulative market practices.
Doing anything less then "advocating for laws to stop this shit" izza giant waste of brain cells, yet i see threads of people making that useless case every time something like this happens.
Change will not come from consumers voting with their wallets, FULL STOP
If someone readin thinking it will, NEVER think this again.
Hey! I see you, looking for an example of consumer action making a difference: Go find me 100 more. You'll need about 100 to start make up for alla times deregulation have hurt and currently hurting consumers now.
Hear me: anyone advocating for consumer action or blaming consumers is doing them companies dry-fucking us a huge favor. These bad actors can and will continue as long as it is legal to do so.
When it comes to video games, idgaf if someone wants to give a game dev thousands of their own dollars because they want to pay an idiot tax.
It's a free market, and we're all free to just not play the fucking game. Actually that's the default so just doing nothing is plenty.
I get what you're saying but we're not talking about groceries here, we're talking about something that could literally cease to exist and aside from some folks maybe being out of work nobody would even notice or care. I do agree though that strong regulation is much better than expecting consumers to stop consuming something as long as it's a necessary thing or something with quite inelastic demand (ie: medicine).
Don't buy these predatory games, refund if you did. Stop supporting these scummy companies, it's the only way they will learn.
Honestly, out of all of them - IMHO Capcom puts out quality games that you can buy once and then buy a dlc and be able to fully enjoy an amazing game with incredible replayablity. I'm not saying I agree with the pay for cosmetic reroll thing, but if Capcom wants to put in cosmetic 2-3$ trinkets, whatever. It affects the game barely any at all, and in the case of Monster Hunter, there are so many in-game cosmetics and trinkets you can unlock already that look awesome. On the flip side of this you have scum bag companies that lock FUN behind micro transactions, not solely cosmetics. Still, the pay for reroll is fucked and I only hope we can mod in the ability to change it like we had in World.
They did the same shit in the last MH game and people bought into it anyway. They slowly chip away at consumers with this shit. Remember the outrage over horse armour? These companies normalised this mindset of "cosmetics being paid are fine!". You should buy a game once and be done with it. Expansions I can get behind paid, but that is as far as it should go.
I doubt they would even learn from that.
Oh they would, but instead of being rational, they would just lay off their workforce.
We were never gonna shop our way out of this abuse.
Capcom regularly puts out certified bangers. Iāll keep buying their games for as long as those games are high quality experiences are worth the money. They can learn about microtransactions by me not buying those lol.
Nothing inside a video game should cost real money.
Only legislation will fix this.
I'm fine with things like expansions costing real money. I'm not fine with things like cosmetics and upgrades costing real money. If they want to sell expansions in the game, I'm cool with that.
I draw the line at mixing in-game currency w/ real currency. In-game currency is a mechanic to manage progression and customizations. Real currency is for buying more content.
they have been doing this for a while. at least since dragons dogma online. In monster hunter worlds I used cheats to give myself the cosmetic edit currency item but no idea if that works in any others.
DD2 is highly cheatable and moddable, the cash shop is just a really poor joke honestly. The game has absolutely no way to check for cheating unless you give your pawn equipment they can't actually use or edit their stats to be something impossible.
Can't wait for Square to charge money to swap materia from weapons in FF7.
Don't give them ideas!
Don't they already charge you for Fantasia in final fantasy 14 beyond the one free that you get?
World was like this too. Are RPS not outraged about that, or is it the case that Wilds generates more traffic for them?
Often times, including this time for sure, changes like this are made after the review period specifically so that they'll fly under the radar from press. But also, they may just be informing their readers who didn't know the last several times Capcom has done this.
During the betas at least, it was mentioned in at least one of the interview/preview videos that you could adjust your character whenever before release but after release it would cost money. Not sure how accessible the information was but it wasn't a total secret.
So Im stuck with what I chose at the beta test as I wouldnāt want to blow my chance at a free change later?
You can create your character, don't have to used the one from the beta
Apparently you get a free redo, per the headline
Yes but if I were to play Iād hold on to that free redo forever since it was the only one.
I imported my beta character and for some reason the voice bugged out and is completely fucked up. Not sure if I want to use the edit voucher just to fix my stupid robot voice
I thought this was for stat distributions at first, which would be annoying, but at least somewhat understandable. But this actually seems to be just cosmetic re-rolling, which is just absurd.
I get it if a developer doesn't want it to be free to reroll a character's appearance. But don't charge them money for it, just make them do a quest or something. God damn.
Off-topic, anyone remember the early days of rockpapershotgun? Goddamn i miss the stylings of the og writers. Now it's just another game site but I'll never forget some of their early pieces
Yeah, they had a really good thing going on and it's sad that it didn't last.
Guess I will stick to warframe, No Man's Sky and BG3.
No Man's Sky is the other extreme, I actually feel kinda embarrassed that I get so much new content without paying for it.
Like, other companies would make it into 20 DLCs already. And even the non-shitty companies would make at least 2 DLCs out of the content.
I think they redeemed the shitty start many times over, they should really charge for some DLC.
Just recently start Skyrim again, with a laundry list of mods, of course.
COOL
If theres 1 free redo, you get 2 chances to do character edits. Im not a fan of the "pay to edit" thing but like........if you cant get your character right after 2 tries and you pay to edit again, i dont exactly have sympathy. Playing dressup is supposed to come with the armors, not the character editor.
On the other hand, what cost is it to Capcom to let players "redo" whenever they want? Some people just like trying new things.
This is just a cash grab aimed at people who have alternative ways they want to play, with no real benefit to anyone but Capcom. I don't care what people look like, as long as they don't throw a hunt for the lols. And if it makes someone else happy to have a weird troll with an underbite one week and a giant Smurf the next, who am I to say that's the wrong way to play?
Just seems like Capcom further forcing people to fit within their box. First it was the anti-mod rootkit, now it's limited in-game customizations.
In Cyberpunk 2077 it took me forever to figure out the perfect sized tits to pair with the perfect sized cock on my V so I think we play games differently.
Wow this is one of the most pathetic comments I have ever seen.
"If you haven't figured out how to enjoy the game in two attempts, get fucked buddy! That's your fault for attempting to explore avenues if enjoyment! You need to do it my way, or face the consequences of payment!"
I don't know how we got to not just complacency in these predatory practices, but outright defending them too.
Pretty soon you'll be asking the company to directly shit in your mouth rather than present it on a plate.
Yeah that is NOT what im fucking saying. Thank you for putting words in my mouth and attacking me over it
If this feature is unneeded, why is it then available for paying users?
