
Confirmed earlier this week, upcoming action-shooter Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 will feature two dedicated multiplayer modes on top of its single-player (or co-op, if you like) campaign. It'll feature both PvE and PvP offerings, which sounds great in terms of value, but the reveal had some players wondering about in-game purchases — or microtransactions. After all, you'd be incredibly hard pressed to find a 'live' game that doesn't have some form of immediate monetisation these days.
But no, according to publisher Focus Entertainment, as reported by PCGamesN, Space Marine 2 won't have any microtransactions. "We’re happy to confirm that there aren’t any microtransactions in Space Marine 2. No in-game cash shop. All gameplay content and features will be free to all players. Any paid DLC will be cosmetic only," the company explains.
So while it does sound like the game will be supported through cosmetic DLC drops, the title won't succumb to any of the more... questionable monetisation practices that have become so commonplace in current gaming.
Space Marine 2 is still on track for a PS5 release on the 9th September, but will you be grabbing a chainsword and butchering hordes of aliens later this year? Wade through the entrails in the comments section below.
[source pcgamesn.com]
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I am really looking forward to this game. There are not enough great action-oriented Warhammer 40K games. I need more!!
So there will only be cosmetic dlc drops? Are they free because if not that constitutes a micro transaction in my book.
Big up ya’selves
So it does have MTX its just cosmetic MTX 🙄
@Northern_munkey By their logic Diablo 4 doesn't have MTX because they only sell cosmetics on the store.
@DennisReynolds as far as I'm concerned they are still mtx's...A turds a turd no matter how many sprinkles are on it.
@Northern_munkey @DennisReynolds It is possible they consider mtx to be micro, like buying coins or tokens or what not for $1 or $2 but they are only selling dlc packs for $7.99 or more.
I don’t play a lot of online games but I can see a difference between games like Horizon and Elden Ring that have a $20 or $30 or $40 dlc and games like Fortnite or Disney Speedstorm that are selling tokens and V-bux to buy stuff with for a few $. Feels like a lot of games these days have both which muddies the water, like CoD or Destiny or any game charging you for a season pass and also selling smaller items. It’s non-stop $60-to-start gaming.🤑
@rjejr I don't consider expansions as mtx's as they add to the longevity of the original story. Cosmetic add ons are most defiantly mtx's no matter how they try and persuade themselves they are not.
I enjoyed the first Space Marine on PS3 despite i never follow Warhammer series. I just grab the game because the Space Marine armor / suit looks cool.
But hey good news. More devs needs to abandon MTX and random loot boxes.
Warhammer fans always show up. Been hoping for another TW historical game from the masthead studio but they will be making WH and 40k stuff forever. That is a fandom that buys up stuff.
@rjejr Expansions and story DLC aren't MTX but cosmetics certainly are. Diablo 4 only has cosmetics for sale as does Suicide Squad yet are we to believe they aren't MTX? Are the skins in Mortal Kombat 1 and Tekken 8 not MTX? I get the logic the Devs have but selling cheap skins is still selling MTX.
@Konks It's a very strange fandom, I'm finding. Lots of gatekeeping. But I'm fine with that. From the outside, it looks like Dewritos central. Not necessarily fedoras, but a fed-aura, if you will.
I don't care if a game has microtransactions, as long as the game itself is good.
Chargeable cosmetic DLC? That’s just another name for microtransactions. It’s the same thing!
@DennisReynolds @Northern_munkey I think while we're all in agreement that expansions, while not mtx, are still dlc, and skins are dlc by definition, I think the definition of mtx is still up for debate.
I just finished showing my wife the 5, five, different currencies in Disney Speedstorm, and it's kinda crazy. There are 2 different season passes as well. It's insane.
So if this guy wants to say he isn't doing mtx b/c there isn't an option to buy 500, 1,110 or 2,500 tokens for $5, $10 or $20, but he is selling bundled packs for $10, well I'd say it's open to both discussion and interpretation, but it doesn't necessarily make him a liar or a fraud, as these terms are all still somewhat new and somewhat interchangeable.
Personally I'm old and don't like any of it. Make a game, make it gold, sell it, make another game. But that's just me, and I still play Fortnite and Disney Speedstorm every day, I just don't spend any money on them.
@rjejr I'm in the same boat as you being an older gamer and not liking mtx's etc. I agree that the definition of what an mtx etc is very much open to interpretation but at the end of the day I can just choose not to purchase them if I don't want them.
One of the reasons I got a ps5. But I'm not paying £60, that's a personal decision. I'll wait for the price to come down, get some other games out of the way of my backlog and let everyone else beta test it for me. 😉
If i can just buy a skin then that is fine better then buying points were you always get w few left over just to make keep spending.
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