Why microtransactions, IAPs and LootBoxes are here to stay thread

[wakka]

https://paulbutler.org/2021/play-to-...bull****-jobs/


Argh you’ll have to copy and paste due to swear filters. Worth a read though.

Great article and sums up exactly my thoughts on Axie Infinity and other play-to-earn 'games'. I've read a lot of credulous takes on these from relatively august tech news sources, which has really surprised me. It seems obvious that for someone to take money out of the game, a lot of others must be putting money in. There is nothing of actual intrinsic value being produced by the 'labour' of players.

[Cassius_Smoke]

Ubisoft is pushing ahead with NFTs.

https://www.polygon.com/22906525/ubisoft-gamers-dont-get-nfts-interview

[Asura]

Ubisoft is pushing ahead with NFTs.

https://www.polygon.com/22906525/ubi...nfts-interview

Honestly they're in the toilet, PR-wise. They can't go much lower. This is like when a car company has an emissions scandal; they then do like 5 product recalls in the following month because the situation can't really get worse and people have short memories.

I suspect they've just decided to bank on the idea that people don't care. I hope they're wrong.

[Neon Ignition]

It's amazing how hard they fought off that takeover just to come out the other end as being worse than the thing they fended off

[Asura]

It's amazing how hard they fought off that takeover just to come out the other end as being worse than the thing they fended off

You mean with Vivendi?

I'm not sure what the deal is with Ubi and Vivendi. Like IIRC that takeover saga has been going for a decade.

[Neon Ignition]

Vivendi seemed at one point to effectively be on the tip of a bit of a hostile take over leading Ubisoft to start doing anything and everything it could to hoover up shares in order to stoen wall the effort. There was a lot of chatter from them about stopping a corporate body taking them over, them losing creative control etc and yet here we are now knowing Ubisoft was deep down that hole already with an extra toxic sprinkle on top. Feels like the whole thing is more about which CEO survives than it is the company itself.

[Neon Ignition]

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2022-02-01-team17-u-turns-on-controversial-worms-nft-project-following-intense-backlash

Having sleep walked into this trouble, Team 17 backs out of their NFT plans

[Neon Ignition]

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2022-02-02-ea-seemingly-backtracks-from-earlier-nft-enthusiasm

EA cools its jets too

[QualityChimp]

Activision made a record $5.1 billion from microtransactions in 2021

[Brad]

Activision made a record $5.1 billion from microtransactions in 2021

*leaves hobby*

[fishbowlhead]

Throws up in mouth.

[Cassius_Smoke]

Like I said on the Xbox thread. Does MS just carry on with the MTX and take the cash, or do they move away from having a first party studio riddled with MTX?

[QualityChimp]

"Guys, we made a sweet five point one bill last year in microtransactions last year. I know, I know that's great, I know I'm driving a bit faster in my upgraded Bugatti! Ha, but seriously - we need to make a game first to sell those microtransactions.

How can we just sell microtransactions without having to pay to make a game?"

Why Video Game Makers See Huge Potential In Blockchain—And Why Problems Loom For Their New NFTs

[Neon Ignition]

Bearing in mind as well, that profit comes in the same year that the new Call of Duty underperformed

[QualityChimp]

Bearing in mind as well, that profit comes in the same year that the new Call of Duty underperformed

Not that new new one? That wasn't included in those stats as it came out after.

I can't remember the name of it, so I'll make it up.

Call Of Duty: Blast Zone