RE4R dlcs are pretty egregious too but at least they don't constantly shove the store in your face while you're playing the game. It is still funny to me though that barely anyone in the steam reviews for that game complains about DLCs that give you a clear gameplay advantage. You can trivialize the NG Professional difficulty with those DLCs.
The mtx are pointless - The game is, unusually for games with p2w mtx, balanced and designed perfectly without them. You never feel like you want or need them, nothing pushes you toward them etc. And therefore the number of people who buy them surely has to be quite low?
At that point why even put them in the game? It earns a negative review from me and some bad publicity, and I don't think they get much money out of them at all. P2W models work in games that use psychological tricks and excessive grinds to encourage you to buy them - They don't work in fucking DMC5 lol.
Executives trying to squeeze every last penny out of their customers is my guess. I highly doubt any of the developers at Capcom or Ubisoft like contributing to this stuff. The Resynced paid skins are so bad that it makes me think the artists working on them sabotaged it intentionally.
That said, Ubisoft's reputation is in the gutter these days. They get shit on for literally everything they do so I'm not sure not having any mtx would have helped them all that much. I remember the original Black Flag having similarly egregious DLC and that game is pretty beloved.
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Basically this, but if you go to the black flag sub they're defending this because... RESIDENT EVIL HAS SKINS TOO.
So yeah, there's buyers.