Manipulative and nasty.
Wayfinder is out in early access, and while we all wait for the 20,000 people in queue to log in ahead of us I’d like to talk about the game’s cash shop. It’s really dirty. Really really dirty. As in they need to fix the prices before it harms the game’s reputation. Even more.
One thing I noticed in the cash shop, and others have as well, is that a fair few items are priced at 1,150 Bison Bucks. That may seem like a specific amount and it is. But what makes it dirty?
Simple; you can buy a $5 bundle of Quatloos that gives you 500 currency. For $10 you get 1,000 with a bonus 100 C-bills. You see where I’m driving at here? If you buy the $10 package you end up fifty cents worth of Burger King Kids Club currency short of said cash shop item, and you’ll need to spend $15 to get an item the $10 bundle should have covered.
Nah brah.
There’s no weaseling out of this. It’s deliberate. It’s predatory. It banks off the idea that their consumers are morons. It threatens both the company’s reputation and the game’s longevity in a genre already saturated with games that died too early.
And the only thing more insulting than the fact that they did it is the audacity, and by audacity I mean hubris overweening pride, of the people in charge of coming up with prices thinking the public wouldn’t immediately recognize it for what it is. Because it’s been done so many times for so long that Microsoft canned the abusive system ten years ago.
Nothing says out of touch like being ten years behind Microsoft in the ethics department.
Go to hell with this predatory garbage.
MMO Fallout 