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Steam News or whatever it's called informed me that the Devil May Cry franchise was on sale, so I idly took a look at it, not expecting to be buying anything.
Here's what I saw.
Devil May Cry 5 costs $59.99 (normal, not sale, price). They make sure to note "(with Red Orbs)" next to the name, which seemed weird to me, so I looked and saw that it said "Includes 2 items: Devil May Cry 5, Devil May Cry 5 - 100000 Red Orbs." Which made me WTF again, so I looked down at the DLC.
Here, among other shitty, pointless, microtransaction-y things were these, the shittiest, most pointless, microtransaction-y things of all:
Devil May Cry 5 - 1 Blue Orb $0.99 (normal, not sale, price)
Devil May Cry 5 - 3 Blue Orbs $1.99
Devil May Cry 5 - 5 Blue Orbs $2.99
Devil May Cry 5 - 100000 Red Orbs $1.99
Devil May Cry 5 - 200000 Red Orbs $3.99
Devil May Cry 5 - 300000 Red Orbs $5.99
Devil May Cry 5 - 500000 Red Orbs $9.99
Devil May Cry 5 - 1000000 Red Orbs $19.99
If you know anything about Devil May Cry games, you know that red orbs are basically the "experience points" that you pick up for killing enemies, used to buy skills and such, and blue orbs are the ones that increase your health bar, usually found in the environment or as rewards for completing challenges.
Copy/pasting one of the negative reviews for the 100000 Red Orbs DLC:
Don't support this practice, the game's balance doesn't even account for this to pressure a purchase.
And don't you dare "fix" that last point, Capcom.
Just sell us some real DLC.
None of the DLC appears to be "real" DLC. All of it appears to be similar microtransaction garbage (e.g. alternate color packs and such).
Most of the reviews are negative, like the above. That said, there still exists a double-digit number of "positive" reviews for it, left by dumbass morons, which is depressing. Especially enraging are the ones that appear to have been made just for the purpose of trolling people who properly believe that dumbshit DLC like this is terrible, such as that one "positive" review for which the entire text was nothing but "reeeeee microtransactions." (Is it too awfully wrong of me that I actively and sincerely wish literal lingering death on douchenozzle asshats like that? Failing that, I had to settle for merely flagging the so-called "review" as "Troll/flamebait. Not a real review.")
Yeah, no, at this point now, because of this, I will never be buying Devil May Cry 5. I refuse to support a developer/publisher who believes that the above is an even remotely acceptable practice. I don't even care whether or not the game is designed in such a way that grinding is tedious enough to make the DLC "required" in order to properly play the game or whatever. Even if the game is just fine "normally," and these orb packs are completely "optional," the fact that such DLC is available for purchase at all is beyond the pale, in my opinion, and is an utter deal-breaker for me as far as ever buying this game. And, as always, I'm not sure who I hate more, the people (i.e. Capcom in this case) who sell asinine dumbshit like this, or the dumbfuck idiots who buy the asinine dumbshit, thus making it a worthwhile thing for the sellers to sell. I mean, I guess it's better that these stupid fucks are wasting their money on buying orbs in Devil May Cry 5 rather than using it on actually harmful shit, like political donations or whatever.
To go off on a bit of a tangent, I noticed that, for some strange reason, I was still "following" Capcom on Steam. That has now been changed to "ignoring." I also used to have pretty much all of the Devil May Cry games (and a few other Capcom games) on my Steam wishlist, a problem that has now been rectified. The only Devil May Cry game that is in my actual Steam library is that shitty DmC remake. Not even sure how that got in there, unless it was part of a Humble Bundle or some shit. *pause to check* Yep, it was part of the "Humble Capcom Bundle" which I got in October 2015.
To fucking goddamn hell forever with the modern video game industry. Once again, I hope this industry utterly crashes super hard within the next five to ten years or so, sooner being better than later. Sadly, that's almost assuredly a pipe dream on my part, though, due to the existence of far too many imbecilic assholes willing to pay for horseshit like the above.
Here's what I saw.
Devil May Cry 5 costs $59.99 (normal, not sale, price). They make sure to note "(with Red Orbs)" next to the name, which seemed weird to me, so I looked and saw that it said "Includes 2 items: Devil May Cry 5, Devil May Cry 5 - 100000 Red Orbs." Which made me WTF again, so I looked down at the DLC.
Here, among other shitty, pointless, microtransaction-y things were these, the shittiest, most pointless, microtransaction-y things of all:
Devil May Cry 5 - 1 Blue Orb $0.99 (normal, not sale, price)
Devil May Cry 5 - 3 Blue Orbs $1.99
Devil May Cry 5 - 5 Blue Orbs $2.99
Devil May Cry 5 - 100000 Red Orbs $1.99
Devil May Cry 5 - 200000 Red Orbs $3.99
Devil May Cry 5 - 300000 Red Orbs $5.99
Devil May Cry 5 - 500000 Red Orbs $9.99
Devil May Cry 5 - 1000000 Red Orbs $19.99
If you know anything about Devil May Cry games, you know that red orbs are basically the "experience points" that you pick up for killing enemies, used to buy skills and such, and blue orbs are the ones that increase your health bar, usually found in the environment or as rewards for completing challenges.
Copy/pasting one of the negative reviews for the 100000 Red Orbs DLC:
Don't support this practice, the game's balance doesn't even account for this to pressure a purchase.
And don't you dare "fix" that last point, Capcom.
Just sell us some real DLC.
None of the DLC appears to be "real" DLC. All of it appears to be similar microtransaction garbage (e.g. alternate color packs and such).
Most of the reviews are negative, like the above. That said, there still exists a double-digit number of "positive" reviews for it, left by dumbass morons, which is depressing. Especially enraging are the ones that appear to have been made just for the purpose of trolling people who properly believe that dumbshit DLC like this is terrible, such as that one "positive" review for which the entire text was nothing but "reeeeee microtransactions." (Is it too awfully wrong of me that I actively and sincerely wish literal lingering death on douchenozzle asshats like that? Failing that, I had to settle for merely flagging the so-called "review" as "Troll/flamebait. Not a real review.")
Yeah, no, at this point now, because of this, I will never be buying Devil May Cry 5. I refuse to support a developer/publisher who believes that the above is an even remotely acceptable practice. I don't even care whether or not the game is designed in such a way that grinding is tedious enough to make the DLC "required" in order to properly play the game or whatever. Even if the game is just fine "normally," and these orb packs are completely "optional," the fact that such DLC is available for purchase at all is beyond the pale, in my opinion, and is an utter deal-breaker for me as far as ever buying this game. And, as always, I'm not sure who I hate more, the people (i.e. Capcom in this case) who sell asinine dumbshit like this, or the dumbfuck idiots who buy the asinine dumbshit, thus making it a worthwhile thing for the sellers to sell. I mean, I guess it's better that these stupid fucks are wasting their money on buying orbs in Devil May Cry 5 rather than using it on actually harmful shit, like political donations or whatever.
To go off on a bit of a tangent, I noticed that, for some strange reason, I was still "following" Capcom on Steam. That has now been changed to "ignoring." I also used to have pretty much all of the Devil May Cry games (and a few other Capcom games) on my Steam wishlist, a problem that has now been rectified. The only Devil May Cry game that is in my actual Steam library is that shitty DmC remake. Not even sure how that got in there, unless it was part of a Humble Bundle or some shit. *pause to check* Yep, it was part of the "Humble Capcom Bundle" which I got in October 2015.
To fucking goddamn hell forever with the modern video game industry. Once again, I hope this industry utterly crashes super hard within the next five to ten years or so, sooner being better than later. Sadly, that's almost assuredly a pipe dream on my part, though, due to the existence of far too many imbecilic assholes willing to pay for horseshit like the above.
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Date: 2019-10-04 06:28 pm (UTC)From:Each one costs 3,000,000 red orbs. Do the math from your list above, and that's why they're hiding the cost of the DLC as red orbs instead of telling you how much they're actually charging you because it's really the only reason anyone would buy the orbs instead of earning them through gameplay - just for these things. Everything else according to Angry Joe is appropriately priced for the red orbs earned through normal game play.
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Date: 2019-10-04 06:37 pm (UTC)From:The reason is because of what he disclaims - the game is by Capcom, and he's in them middle of creating and releasing a minatures board game that's based on Street Fighter. IE: He has a reason not to go ruffling any feathers at Capcom. Especially back then when the board game was still very early on.
Even when he points out the fact that the extra costumes for the main characters would cost WAY more than the game itself (3 x 19.99 for each costume) Not sure why I think there are 3 characters as I haven't been paying attention to the game at all since the review but either way. Even just having 2 characters means you'd have to pay up 120 bucks for just 2 costumes to get "The complete game", or play the game constantly for a year or more. We both know any sane person will no longer be sane, or have long since lost interest playing the game by then.
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Date: 2019-10-04 06:46 pm (UTC)From:It's to prevent refunds. Steam doesn't do refunds of DLC or games bought with DLC. Up until the sale started apparently you were still able to buy the base game by itself, which would have been refundable. Take a look at this game again when the sale ends to ses if the DLC-less game option returns.
In short, Capcom using scummy tactics.
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Date: 2019-10-04 06:55 pm (UTC)From:If that's accurate, then it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest, what with it being modern video game industry dogshit and all. Gotta nickel and dime the whales to death, after all.
And no, even if these taunts or whatever the fuck they are were actual DLC that you just bought straight up, directly (which would be bad enough), instead of it being already in-game unlockable shit costing excessive amounts of in-game currency to tempt people to spend actual cash money to buy the in-game currency to buy the already in-game shit (which is even worse), I still wouldn't consider it to be "real" DLC. It'd be more useless bullshit microtransactions.
Unless this is the thing you're talking about, which "only" costs $7. That's pretty bullshit that they're charging $7 for something that costs 3,000,000 orbs, but charging $20 for 1,000,000 orbs. Wait, though, is that 3,000,000 total as they claim, or what? If it's $7 for 9,000,000 orbs worth of dumbshit, that's even worse, actually, what with the $20 for 1,000,000 thing.
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Date: 2019-10-04 06:57 pm (UTC)From:DLC5, more like.
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Date: 2019-10-04 07:08 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2019-10-04 07:13 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2019-10-04 07:34 pm (UTC)From:A practice which still has assholes defending it. As I know I've already said dozens of times before, this, right here, is the true reason why the modern video game industry is shit and will forever be shit, because not only do idiotic consumers accept and tolerate all the corrupt bullshit that the companies do, too many of them go above and beyond to actively defend it as well. If they didn't, then the companies wouldn't and couldn't get away with doing the corrupt bullshit.
But then, I suppose this is true of all companies in all industries and not just the modern video game industry. Too many people just don't give a fuck, and they let them get away with everything.