ASidCast: "When I first heard about Steam supporting paid mods, I was kind of optimistic, however it’s becoming more and more obvious as each minute passes on how this can be a terrible trend developing in the industry that is just not required. Like quite a few ideas, paid mods seem really great on paper and everyone wants to support their favourite Modders and mods, I know I do, but in application this entire theory falls flat on its face because of various reasons. In this article for the most part I’ll be writing down the several cons of paid mods and why we are generally better off without them and why Valve should seriously rethink it’s policies on regards to paid mods."
Blindfolding myself and clicking a Steam page at random would serve me better recommendations than Steam’s algorithm
Hmm, not sure I agree with that. The recommendations I get are usually pretty good, but then again I have pretty large library of games on Steam and hundreds of them in my wish list, along with lots of curators I follow for it to build recommendations off of. On occasion it will throw me a random FIFA game or something I've never bought or shown interest in, but mostly its decent IMO.
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Players can pay to edit their character, resurrect the dead and other actions.
Yet Helldivers 2 gets a pass? Y’know a GotY contender by the name of RE4 had them and so does Devil May Cry V. The funny thing is I enjoyed both of those games thoroughly without having to buy a single microtransaction.
What I do consider a valid complaint is not being able to start a new game or being able to edit your character. That’s kind of a seriously baffling decision, but then I think how I played Dragon’s Dogma 1 and I never edited my character and I just did a 100% playthrough on a single file and didn’t start a NG since. So, I don’t think these are really going to impact me, but I can see how it will others.
I was going to pay full price to support this game because I've been waiting for it for forever but I think I'll wait until I get it for free from Epic or a Humblebundle monthly.
I am not defending Capcom, as I am not a fan of MTX in single player games. I do however belive they were open to reviewers about having MTX in their game. The reviewers just decided to leave that part out. Which is very disingenuous. There are some companies that get away with these things. Image if this was done by EA, Ubisoft, or even Activision? I am positive those defending Capcom, would have had their pitchforks ready if the companies listed above did this
I think the biggest fault in this whole situation is the fact that Valve and Bethesda believe they are entitled to 75% of the profits made on mods. Not only does it devalue the mod makers, but it just goes to show how huge corporations try to nickle and dime every part of their product. Eventually, this and the many other things game companies have been pulling off recently WILL cause the gaming industry to collapse.
I think it's time for gamers to take a step back and realize what kind of companies we are supporting in the long run.