Biggest Rip-Offs In Gaming - Microtransactions, Psychological Tricks, Skinner Boxes, Dark Patterns And Greed

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Star Citizen!!! If I remember right years back you had to spend 1000? bucks or so to unlock the ability to spend even more money on special ships that only existed as a png file.


Talking about insanity ... funny how all this started with a fucking horse armour.

"The PC game with the most expensive DLCs when combined is the Train Simulator series, specifically Train Simulator 2018: Steam Edition, which had 420 separate DLC releases available on Steam as of January 2018, totaling £4,684.61 ($6,627.36) to purchase all of them. This record is recognized by Guinness World Records for the most expensive DLC for a video game (combined)."
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World of warcraft "membership".

-their servers are hot garbage.
-updates are slow, lacking and riddled with bugs.
-customer service is garbage.
-can't banter in game without facing a suspension or ban for the mildest insults.
-absolutely filled with bots.
-micro-transactions and p2w garbage like official gold buying.

and to top it off you have to pay for the next expansion anyway which has tiered pricing letting whales play new content a week early
 
The Couriers Stash DLC for Fallout: New Vegas immediately comes to mind. Imagine making the most interesting New Game builds utterly pointless because you now have snowflake-tier equipment and weapons handed to you at the very start. Also getting inundated with you take a sip from your trusty vault 13 canteen isn't content, it's annoying as fuck.
 
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