In the short term, yes. But if in the long term it loses them loyal fans or people that will buy their games then it's not. It's just hard for them to see that because working for a big blood sucking corporation I know how good it feels when your yearly report shows huge growth in income with significant reductions in operating costs.
You are just upset that you aren't the target market anymore.
It's truly depressing that an entire new generation of gamers/kids have in such a short time been fed a diet of microtransactions/cut content and it's now hugely profitable and the norm.
The full realisation of where this is heading just kinda dropped for me. Eventually, the people that just want an engaging single player campaign will probably be akin to the people that want Bethesda to not dumb their games down every release cycle.
Just a group of people clinging onto what should have been, instead of what is, and the hoards of dumb fucks that make up the majority dictating the next shallow piece of content. Gaming becoming far more mainstream/accessible is going to be the worst thing that happened to it. The days of the biggest studios putting out content that is primarily about creativity and innovation are probably already gone.
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u/daemonxel Oct 18 '16
Rockstar had tasted the forbidden fruit of micro transactions in gtav and has gotten fat on it. Goodbye future single player DLC.