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New Diablo 4's Horse Bundle Costs More Than The Game Itself
NoLootBoxDev
Member
LectureMaster
Gold Member
At this price it should be a whores bundle.
TommyCronin6969
Member
Someday Star Citizen devs will be blushing at Blizzard's practices
HeisenbergFX4
Gold Member
Pretty cool looking mount.
Haven't played the game in months but these MTX seem to really piss people off, might go buy it
Haven't played the game in months but these MTX seem to really piss people off, might go buy it
Lupin3
Targeting terrorists with a D-Pad
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Blizzard’s artists are on a whole other level. It’s sad that their talent is wasted on bullshit.
analog_future
Resident Crybaby
Horse Armor 2.0
Arsic
Loves his juicy stink trail scent
Does everyone ignore the 7000 coins?
No. You’re paying for 7000 coins which is 7 battle passes you can fund for yourself, and you get the bonus of the horse armor.
At $65 you’re saving $5.00, and getting the skin.
This bundle is really only for someone who plans to buy other MTX anyway, or wants to just buy future battle passes as they come for a little lower price than usual plus this skin.
People are blowing this way out of proportion.
No. You’re paying for 7000 coins which is 7 battle passes you can fund for yourself, and you get the bonus of the horse armor.
At $65 you’re saving $5.00, and getting the skin.
This bundle is really only for someone who plans to buy other MTX anyway, or wants to just buy future battle passes as they come for a little lower price than usual plus this skin.
People are blowing this way out of proportion.
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Revolutionary
Member
clarky
Gold Member
Sush you! let us be outraged a bit longer!
Heimdall_Xtreme
Hermen Hulst Fanclub's #1 Member
Sáquese!!!
Diablo 4 players face yet another microtransaction controversy. This time, the price issue is for a new mount bundle priced higher than the base game itself. The Vitreous Scourge mount, adorned with crystals and bones, can only be purchased through a $64.99 bundle. This price point is a huge hurdle over the current $41.99 cost of Diablo 4.
The controversy centers around the exclusivity of the Vitreous Scourge mount. Unlike previous cosmetic options, this mount is unavailable for individual purchase and is only accessible through a bundle. This bundle additionally includes 7,000 Platinum, Diablo 4’s in-game currency, which can be used for other cosmetic purchases or premium Battle Pass access (thanks, IGN).
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DaleinCalgary
Gold Member
MS originally wanted to do a subscription of $14.99 for a new horse armor every month.
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Draugoth
Gold Member
Just wait until the Xbox podcast
ChorizoPicozo
Member
35 years
killatopak
Gold Member
How about letting us buy the horse on its own without spending $65?
This is like selling items with prices in increments of 20 but only selling currency at increments of 30.
You're uneccesarily forced to pay more than what you need.
Arsic
Loves his juicy stink trail scent
The horse is more of a bonus on top of the $7000 coins, also discounted.
It’s meant as an incentive to purchase a lot of coin up front, and then be in their MTX eco system.
This is NOT new in gaming or Blizzard. Blizzard does this shit with buying 6 month subs for WoW. Has been for a long time.
Eventually some of these mounts show up as free monthly things in WoW many years later if I’m not mistaken.
Would it be nice to buy the horse by itself? Sure, but then why would someone potentially want 7000 coins up front? This is meant to push that type of consumer to make that push.
MiguelItUp
Member
At this point, studios are just going to keep on doing this because "someone" will buy it. It's exactly why mobile & F2P games contain $100+ bundles and more. It costs nothing to set it up, and someone will buy it. If no one does, no big deal, but if they do, great! As long as it happens, it's not going anywhere, and we're just going to continue to see things that are stupid or make very little sense.
analog_future
Resident Crybaby
NO! WE'RE MAD EVEN THOUGH WE PROBABLY AREN'T EVEN PLAYING THE GAME RIGHT NOW AND NEVER INTENDED TO BUY THIS IN THE FIRST PLACE!
Halo is Back
Member
So much for "micro-transactions." This shit is getting way out of hand and fuck anyone who actually pays for this overpriced garbage.
Shake Your Rump
Gold Member
“Saving” $5 by spending $65 on literally nothing of value. Nice.
Tajaz2426
Psychology PhD from Wikipedia University
People are upset that this has become normal to spend the amount the game costs on fake currency with no value. It is also teaching children that this is normal to keep handing over there money to a corporation that gives you no actual value, while you fill their coffers even more.NO! WE'RE MAD EVEN THOUGH WE PROBABLY AREN'T EVEN PLAYING THE GAME RIGHT NOW AND NEVER INTENDED TO BUY THIS IN THE FIRST PLACE!
We can dig deeper on how they just don’t attack whales with this and even hurt poverty stricken folks as well. We had these discussions all the time in college in different psychology classes and how they keep pushing this to normalize it, so that children will continue to grow into adulthood and are groomed to become more bank accounts for said corporation.
It will only keep getting more exspensive and keep pushing till your at some point paying actual money to reload a digital weapon. There is absolutely no real value in digital transactions and only use these different types of currency to get around gambling.
I’m pretty sure that’s why folks are upset. It isn’t just as easy as saying don’t buy it. They use and hire psychologist to study people and figure out the best way to pry every cent they can from you. The issue is very complex and has a lot of variables to the equation.
Edit: some of you have to have the gaming version of Stockholm syndrome. It is crazy to me folks just accept this kind of stuff.
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Shake Your Rump
Gold Member
It’s called “empathy”.
It’s normal to be upset when you see people being preyed upon, especially if they participate in the same hobby.
Halo is Back
Member
Imagine defending this business practice saying "you're actually saving $5.00." This transaction already cost more than the full price of the game. The fact that this shit in now normalized just shows how conditioned gamers have become.
nkarafo
Member
By exploiting our envy and pride the industry made microtransactions a standard. Everyone wants to look more special than the rest. And when they see others looking cooler, jealousy ensures more "horse armor" purchases. And the more expensive they are, the more special you feel because there are less people like you.
I mean, the industry managed to make the online marketplaces a standard, killing the second hand market and paving the way for online DRM so they can have control over our stuff, just by exploiting our sloth. We value convenience over control.
I wonder how they could exploit the rest of the deadly sins for their gain. Either way it's our sins, so our fault.
I mean, the industry managed to make the online marketplaces a standard, killing the second hand market and paving the way for online DRM so they can have control over our stuff, just by exploiting our sloth. We value convenience over control.
I wonder how they could exploit the rest of the deadly sins for their gain. Either way it's our sins, so our fault.
amigastar
Member
OMG, you're right, i forgot the portal colors.
Shame on you Blizzard, shame on you. Greedy bastards.
It's one of the better priced things in the D4 Store really. It's really a platinum bundle with enough platinum to get you through 23 seasons or so (so like 6 years) assuming you complete the tiers. If one wants to sperg about microtransactions the $25 class-specific skins is a much better target.
Nydius
Member
I remember a lifetime ago (ok, well, 15-ish years) when people were righteously pissed off that we had to buy fake currency in the form of “Microsoft Points” in order to buy games and DLC on Xbox Live because they only sold those points in increments that guaranteed we’d never be able to spend all of it without buying more.
People were so pissed off that they eventually got Microsoft to drop “points” all together and just charge regular currency values.
Every time I see these games with “coins” or “silver” or whatever fake currency MTX trash doing the same thing, it always makes me remember how, for a brief period, we didn’t tolerate this shit and forced a trillion dollar company to change their system.
Diseased Yak
Gold Member
I remember getting my Vitrious Stone Drake mount in WoW by killing a dragon over and over again until it finally dropped.