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.
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.
Nothing inside a video game should cost real money.
Only legislation will fix this.
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.
We were never gonna shop our way out of this abuse.
I doubt they would even learn from that.
Oh they would, but instead of being rational, they would just lay off their workforce.
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, 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.
Can’t wait for Square to charge money to swap materia from weapons in FF7.
Don’t give them ideas!
So Im stuck with what I chose at the beta test as I wouldn’t want to blow my chance at a free change later?
Apparently you get a free redo, per the headline
Yes but if I were to play I’d hold on to that free redo forever since it was the only one.
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.
including this time for sure, changes like this are made after the review period
Could you clarify? As far as I can tell it was there when Wilds launched on PC.
The review period is typically pre-launch. In a perfect world, the benefit there is that reviewers aren’t all rushing to get their review done first, and publishers get to have good review scores correspond with the launch of the game, right when interest in buying it is at its peak. But in this case, they can review the game before the release date, praise it, and then Capcom can sneak in a patch on day 1 of its real release that adds in microtransactions like these that might sink the score if they were there for the reviewers.
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.
This game already costs $70. People should be able to play the game they paid for however they want. If they want to keep redoing their character, let them.
Yeah I agree, its pointless monetization that only hurts the consumer
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.
