I understand where you’re coming from, and not to sound like a shill, but GGG has made their mtx about as non-onerous as possible. Stash tabs are the closest it gets to p2w, and you get plenty for free, with plenty of free QOL features.
Also, the ratios of real money to the premium currency are more than fair without any of the ‘oh no, you’re a buck short, better spend $25 to get this thing. And now you have almost enough to buy this other thing, better spend another $25us!’
Premium currencies are just very anti-consumer, I’m sure you know most of the arguments against it so I won’t reiterate them.
GGG are great developers, but their sales department is as predatory as every other game, FOMO sales, lootboxes, premium currencies, supporter packs… Not being p2w (the standard on pc btw) is really the only good thing you can say about their current monetization.
I understand where you’re coming from, and not to sound like a shill, but GGG has made their mtx about as non-onerous as possible. Stash tabs are the closest it gets to p2w, and you get plenty for free, with plenty of free QOL features.
Also, the ratios of real money to the premium currency are more than fair without any of the ‘oh no, you’re a buck short, better spend $25 to get this thing. And now you have almost enough to buy this other thing, better spend another $25us!’
Premium currencies are just very anti-consumer, I’m sure you know most of the arguments against it so I won’t reiterate them.
GGG are great developers, but their sales department is as predatory as every other game, FOMO sales, lootboxes, premium currencies, supporter packs… Not being p2w (the standard on pc btw) is really the only good thing you can say about their current monetization.