Originally Posted by battles_atlas Originally Posted by

What a crock, from start to finish. There is nothing inevitable about microtransactions - they will not happen if enough people resist them, certainly not in forms so blatantly anti-player as implemented in 2K18.



As for the rest of your post, you're portraying this as 'consumer choice', like its empowering for the player. It's not empowering if the grind is formulated to push you towards microtransactions, and punish you if not. There are so many ways in which the focus on pushing players towards microtransactions is detrimental to the game play. Most obviously the endless grind just to get an actually decent player but elsewhere too. Want to make gameplay more engaging by adding different dunks to your guy? Nope, need to spend that VC you need for upgrading. New haircut, new clothes, new tattoo? Nope, nope, nope. One of those bikes, so getting around the pointless shopping mall - sorry 'neighbourhood' - isn't so slow? Nope. The developer's dishonesty is holding back the game time after time. If they want players to pay more, raise the sticker price, drop the microtransactions, and let people make an informed decision and play a game designed for enjoyment, not squeezing more cash out of wallets.



As for your Old Man routine, taking a pop at 'Generation Now', again, total crock. If players can buy most of their way to 99 then there is nothing to be earned. The microtransactions destroys that as an achievement. And there is nothing free about a game that they bought full price already.