Future Updates to Middle-earth: Shadow of War Will Remove Microtransactions

Hmm this is weird, did it not sell well? As a primarily SP experience (other than the invasion aspect), I would have thought that most people who have the game have played through it as opposed to a primarily MP game that can woo people back.

It really does feel that it pays to hold off buying big games at launch which can't be good for the industry.

"the ability to purchase orcs from the Market undermined the Nemesis System", I highly doubt that was the reason...

Then I'll be buying it brand new on the 17th of july.
Decisions like these are to be rewarded.

I'm sure this is good intentions and not because of backlash and poorer than expected sales...

I read this as "the money we are getting from the microtransactions doesn't justify the level of flak we took from everyone and the number of cancelled pre-orders we got. So lets pass it off like we are doing everyone a favour and 'listening to gamers'. But we all know that we devised this system in the first place to gouge as many people as we could"

Skipped it on release largely because of the stupid ‘buy an orc’ system, so yeah, I might pick it up in a sale now. Mordor was dumb fun.

I'll buy it on sale then, back then I plan to buy this brand new but the whole mobile like microtransaction has soured me on the game.

I think this is a good thing. I realize many people who liked the game reported that it can be enjoyed without utilizing a single microtransaction, so this makes me much more interested to buy it. I enjoyed the first game, but just had this one on my watch list. Come July, I might finally go ahead and buy it.

6 months too late. They know the majority of the lootbox booty has been raked in already. Now, it's retroactively fixing their PR. Absolute rubbish and gutting for people who did partake in its toxic economy on release. I stand by never buying games with lootboxes and this is just one of the reasons why.

Too late, Damage is already done

Avoided because of mtx economy. Will buy when this update drops

@JoeBlogs I am cynical because I believe that the revenue has now dropped for microtransactions, so it makes business sense to drop them, make the claim for goodwill and ride that wave to the bank with new sales.

Was going to get it as I really enjoyed the first one, then as with others here, all the loot box / microtransaction involvement put me right off it completely and I'd completely dismissed it.
However now they seem to be making these changes then I'll pick it up when cheaper, perhaps wait for inevitable GOTY edition too.

@Johnnycide Wait for the inevitable GOTY edition that will be released (with this changes and all DLC)

Another game trying to score points by removing a system that no one liked to begin with.

I see some saying their new game wont have micro-transactions again just to promote the game.

I guess we owe Battlefront 2 for showing these publishers how much we hate mirco-transactions! Should had been much sooner.

Fight the power!

No reasonable farmer would milk a dead cow...

To quote one of Gandalf's famous lines, "buy, you fools"

I don't really care at this point, I doubt the game is even that good. I'll stick to games where fun is the priority from day one rather than how to squeeze customers' wallets to maximum. Plenty of much better games to choose from.

Good decision, but it's too late for me.

Yeah, they're only removing them because the game came out a while ago and made as much money as it's ever going to make. They'll make almost nothing from microtransactions this late.

All good news. Might warrant another playthrough and this time actually do the Shadow Wars portion.

Eh, I'm glad I bought the game on eBay for $13 a month or so ago, because that's about all I'll pay for the game, regardless of the status of microtransactions within the game.

"They earned how much they wanted to and now they are just telling that to appear as good guys."

So now that they have made their money they are going to remove the loot boxes which spoiled the game in the first place. With a bit of luck they have learned their lesson and won't use them in the first place next time

Still no gonna change how disappointingly basic the open world activities are, but kudos for them for stripping the loot boxes out, shame it's 6 months too late.

Hopefully this is the beginning of the end for lootboxes. They have no justifiable reason to be in ANY games. Good work everyone voicing their concerns to publishers and platform developers and now we can move on to better game design in the future.

I've never fully understood what the big deal was about the lootboxes in the first place, and to cancel your preorder over it seems like a serious overreaction. You could just as well not buy the lootboxes in the first place, it's not like the game forces you to buy them and they're in no way necessary. To me, lootboxes always struck me as a way for gamers who have work, school, families, and other responsibilities that make the grinding associated with getting good orcs a less appealing option. I'm not a fan of lootboxes either and never bought a single one, but the overreaction against them always struck me as a bit ridiculous. They have nothing to do with the game and Shadow of War was an overall good game with or without lootboxes. I think at this point, gamers simply associate lootboxes with greed and react negatively to their very existence, even if said existence has nothing to do with the game and is purely optional. I was much more annoyed by the amount of clothing, guns, and other items locked behind a paywall in Ghost Recon: Wildlands than I was lootboxes for this one.

The fact Monolith is able to simply take them out proves all along you never needed the lootboxes, but I do agree that their existence undermined the Nemesis system. The idea of simply buying boxed orcs sounds a bit weird anyway and paints the mental image of a box of ors being boxed up and waiting shipment. Does Mordor have Amazon/Ebay too?

Sales of the game must have dried up.

I'll get the game eventually, but it's not a priority.

Nice news, happy the devs have turned the MTCs off. I'll add this to my shopping list now!

Well done blah blah but maybe just don't add them in the first place next time eh!?

They've made there money from it and noticed the game isn't making anymore so now they decided to remove them. **** WB because they squeezed every dime out of its fans of the first game and thought us the gamers would take MT and loot boxes and it didn't get any news after a few months. EA then do it with SWBF2 and then everyone takes notice it's this what pissed me off because the this very game should have started it all not SWB2

middle earth shadow of war on ps4 is extremely awesome to me i love the combat stealth exploring and the nemesis system it is my favorite middle earth game ever and it is my 1st favorite game ever

hey nakatomi i'm not online on ps4 so i don't have any microtransaction's at all