Players Point Out Destiny 2's New Crossover Cosmetics Probably Cost More Than The Witcher 3 and All Its DLC

Microtransaction prices has honestly gone completely of the rails. And they are just gonna get worse, and most likely also just get away with it. Even with negative response most developers don't seem to care. Sad times we live in.

People defended microtransantions for years. "It's just cosmetic", "if you don't like it, don't buy it" ect. We're now in an age where skins cost the price of full games and I imagine the younger generation don't know any different. Madness.

The madness won't end. Yes, us rational level-headed people would never even entertain the idea of paying £17/$20 for an in-game cosmetic. However, the reason companies feel like they can get away with charging these sorts of prices for microtransactions is... well, they can. Enough people are obviously paying these prices on a regular enough basis, or the prices would go down.

It's not right, but it's the sad truth. As people more attuned to games we can vote with our wallets and not buy this stuff, but we're outnumbered exponentially by casual gamers - who maybe just play free-to-play live service games - who have no issue spending ridiculous amounts of money on cosmetic microtransactions.

A lot of thought and care has been given when creating these skins so it is completely normal that they cost more than the game.

I love Destiny 2, I buy the expansions but I would never buy any armor sets at anything close to these prices.

If you take the approach of just buying something you’re actually going to wear you’ll be fine. You don’t expect to walk into a clothes shop and get one of everything. You don’t expect to get every skin in Destiny 2. Both are ruinously expensive.

@Kanji-Tatsumi yup it’s a case of consumers attacking consumers for their outcries instead of the corporation

Atleast it's free to play. 😆😂🤣

But seriously these things should be called something else now they are not microtransactions anymore.

£17 for a single cosmetic is madness.

I just spent £12 to buy Final Fantasy 15 Royal Edition (full game plus DLCs and cosmetics).

Think of all the work that went into that game, people pouring out their hearts into it from designers, writers, artists, musicians and so many more. They created an art piece that tells a story, plays with your emotions and gives hundreds of hours of content and I bought it for less than a single cosmetic.

This is why I have also said mobile games were cancer to gaming. They gave birth to micro transactions which have now infected gaming as a whole.

They charge this because they can. If people didn’t buy it it wouldn’t be priced at that.

Because “gamers” are dumb af and gullible. They will repeatedly buy unfinished games on launch, pre order them too, even tho digital won’t sell out. They will pay whatever Destiny/CoD/insert game charge for whatever digital tat they offer. They will complain about it, but still get it, then get something else.

Until people actual act smart this stuff will carry on. In years we will look back at this period and be ashamed of it.

Not only prices, but the way microtransactions are shoved into player's faces is what also really bothers me.

A friend of mine wanted me to try Farpoint a few weeks ago, it's free-to-play so why not, and when I first started the game up, I couldn't believe how much they shove dollar signs at you about buying stuff, it's insanity. I played one match and uninstalled it lmao.

Absolutely ridiculous.

It’s a good thing I don’t fall into the mentality where I think purchasing any digital cosmetic is a wise investment to make.

It's amazing when you think back 10 years ago at what DLC cost and what microtransactions cost.

I think LBP costumes were like 0.99$ each. That's a real microtransaction, when a full game expansion cost 15-20$.

Now we don't even get expansions as DLCs it's just costumes that cost the same price as the game a year after it launches.

@Flaming_Kaiser MACROtransactions

Remember when Horse Armour kicked off a sh#tstorm at costing less then £3? Funny how nowadays that would be considered extremely generous.

@Deadlyblack That's why I really dislike Ubisoft games they have a special tab in a singleplayer game just for the microtransactions its getting so blatant they don't even feel shame anymore.

@Hessianmeistsr I think should be the new name it's just to much now the macro transaction as just expensive as a games nowadays.

@DennisReynolds I remember one YouTuber warning us for this James Stephanie Sterling he said it from the start.

Probably will end when the Sony Digital lawsuit gets going.

@Flaming_Kaiser - Nah mate, it's free to start. There's next to no content in the base D2 game because Bungle removed it all when it went f2p. Everything meaningful is in the paid expansions.

@Kanji-Tatsumi it's just a cosmetic, and if you don't like it don't buy it. You didn't refute this point...

@Markatron84 Why do you say it's "not right"? Why do you care about other people's spending habits? For example, CSGO has bottomless spending options for skins. You can buy tens of thousands of dollars worth of skins on the Steam marketplace, or buy crates there & keys from Steam directly and open your own. But why would I care as a player of CSGO? Other people's skins don't affect me at all.

@zhoont If no one bought them then prices wouldn't increase nor would more and more MTX appear. Look at Mortal Kombat 1 that game has endless overpriced skins and its because whales love throwing money at them. Its why its shocking a game like Spider-Man 2 has around 60ish skins in game you can unlock by playing not paying despite how easy it could have been to take 50 of them and put them in a MTX store.

@DennisReynolds prices of what wouldn't increase? MTX on skins? Like- tell me why I need to care about the MTX...?

With Sony in the firing line we should expect more cases against studios who abuse MTX. Hopefully as this trend needs to die. I wonder if I can get an AI lawyer to get the ball rolling.

@zhoont If people didn't buy MTX then that means pay to win stuff would stop being a thing and games like MK1 wouldn't put all the cool skins behind a cash shop and you know would instead do what every past entry did and have them as cool unlockables. The only reason MTX exists is because whales and kids with daddy's credit card are happy to throw 1000's at them. Not only thqt because of people buying them the prices have increased more and more, Oblivion got a ton of flack for charging nearly £3 for horse armour while nowadays Diablo 4 charges up to £20 for it. Give it a few a more years and that Batman skin based on his new film will be £70 for whatever live service £70 game WB have put out.

It's supply and demand. Bungie and other companies charge egregious prices for digital goods because dum-dums buy them.

@Shigurui So it's even worse? That's really sad to hear.

@Flaming_Kaiser - Yup, they completely removed the entirety of the D2 campaign along with Mars, Mercury, Titan, Io and The Tangled Shore. The original game and most of the first 3 expansions no longer exists.

For me it's conceptually unimaginable to ever buy a costume for even half of those prices. I'd always rather just buy a new game instead -.-'

@Shigurui Seriously that kinda shocking news for me. They made the game worse how can they be the ones to tell if the Naughty Dog game is not good enough thats insane.

So did they wipeout the singleplayer content or do you need to buy everything now to play it?

@Gunnerzaurus I never had a issue with the price increase bigger games higher quality costs money.

It's really funny if it's the same people that buy things like COD who dont even need the increase because of the massive monetization.

I do have a issue with the normalization of announcements for DLC and Expansions before the base game is even released.

And they need to stop calling it microtransactions there is nothing micro about them anymore. With stuff going up €20 for skins.

@Flaming_Kaiser - They wiped the original Red War campaign completely, everything that is on the physical game disc is now gone, unplayable.

@Shigurui And I thought digital was the future to preserve gaming. 😆

Who would have this to be a lie. 😅