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Children should NOT be advertised to. Period.
What kind of advertising, exactly? MTX in games like these are far from the only advertising to children out there.
Man be quiet. my favorite childhood memories were watching those Fox Kids, Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network commercials from the 90s in between my shows. Advertising forever.
@@NinjaxShadowXx I'm older and loved the 80's commercials for awesome toy brands like He-Man, Voltron, Transformers, G.I. Joe, etc. It was all about entertainment and separating your parents' money from their wallets.
Infeasible. Regulate all ads to not be predatory instead
@@NinjaxShadowXx Yeah, but Fox Kids, Nick, and CN weren't collecting your *ID* and your other PII. That's what makes this disgusting.
"13 year old" "their credit card" - Is this some sort of inside joke only Americans understand or do _children_ over there seriously have their _own_ credit card???
Not their own but the parents can give them a card based off their credit card account with"limits", often not explained or they don't know how to set, this are meant for emergencies and teaching the value of money... But here we go with corp shit
'credit card' is also colloquially used for any card that transacts via the credit card system. Kids do have debit cards.
I knew people who had their parents buy prepaid visa gift cards so they essentially had their own wallet on xbox to just buy whatever
In Italy we have some card that underage can use (one is called Postepay and there is a normal one for adults) it's specifically set to have limitations, can be charged from other bank accounts/specific place. Can be used for online purchases without using the parent bank account/main account.
I’m 14 (UK), don’t play video games, and have a debit card on which I get my pocket money and use to spend on e.g. food when I go out with my friends, cool tech I want to buy, …
Solution to Micro-transactions: if you have micro-transactions in your game it should be (required by law) automatically rated M, prevents a a majority of parents buying these games for their kids and allowing companies to predatorily target children.
Assuming parents do their job of parenting and dont just buy to satiate and quiet their kids
its a free game so that would really not do anything and besides kids can easily make enough money now to buy their own games. I dont know the solution an outright ban seems the most logical. Maybe a value cap? like all in game items can not exceed a real world value of 100 dollars in a calendar year?
@@zachmoyer1849 that would kill whaling, which is a big revenue stream for most f2p games (esp. smaller ones)
I wish
"Solution" is too big of a word, but it would at least put a damper on paid games with microtransactions, forcing most devs/publishers to pick one or the other, as it should be.
There's def an argument to NOT link digital item with REAL item. I can see a company selling shitty products(dollar store tier electronics) that will end up in the trash.
Or consider this: The price of the digital item goes up due to being linked to a physical item you don't want.
So if you want a skin you have to pay more and get something you don't want just to get it.
@@Honerkamp Yup. Incredibly wasteful market tactic, potentially, and we all know Capitalists will not give a shit about tens or hundreds of thousands of things being discarded like the trash they are, just to make sales.
They had this years ago already, no one seems to remember Webkinz
"Child, send us your ID so that we can take your parents' money."
Uh.... No.
What government issued ID is a kid even gonna have? I genuinely think the only "ID" I had as a child was my SSN, which would be horrible to share with Walmart 😅
Exactly.
Passport.
@@pikepikepikepike Most adults in the US don't even have a passport.
In Maryland ANY age can get a ID, even a infant can!!
@@FrietjeOorlog I was going to ask "then how do you visit other countries?" until I remembered that for most americans, the answer is "I don't".
These games really are the coin-operated arcade machines of the current era when it comes to addiction.
Much worse because they’re in your house. Before you had to travel to an arcade and beg your parents for money.
You aren't spending coins either, you're sending whole $100 bills
But only if the coin operated game gave you "limited edition" heroin bundles every week
Worse because there's decades of psychologist intervention to ensure the systems are as addictive and insidious as possible. We needed to regulate them at the turn of the century during the PS2 era.
Ah, the good ol’ “The Skins and the Lootboxes” talk.
Any micro-transaction resembling gambling should and must be given the same treatment as one
I have paid for exactly three microtransactions in my whole life
Each time because I enjoyed the game very much and wanted to actually pay for that enjoyment
But I also have the mental fortitude to decide when I spend money and always know how much money I have available
Children don't have that.
Same.
@@metalsnakezero yeah ive played several free to play games. and after dumping 100hours into it i was fine with buying something. but not throwing money at it like some.
As a lifelong gamer who has never bought a single micro transaction, I can safely say that you are part of the same problem you so confidently disconnect yourself from.
@@CrAzYpotpie there is a difference between games. Paying for stuff in fortnite is stupid. Because why would anyone want to support epic games as a company?
And don't buy from any game where skins and micro transactions are the main thing. Or have scummy tactics like limited time to purchase items and basically no way to earn free things.
But there are games which are made for fun and then the in game purchases come. Like helldivers 2. You can get a decent amount of premium currency by just playing the game. But the game is so good that buying stuff and supporting a game which has a way better system feels good.
Another relatively new game is the Finals. And it's a FPS and has a store. But the game is just fundamentally fun. And I've earned so much free stuff from just playing and doing quests.
And there are no time exclusive premium items. There are event exclusive items. But all of those are free. The battle pass is the only time exclusive thing.
Supporting games which just do micro transactions. In a good way is not bad. Because we want more of that. We want more of those good games.
I spent 40p on a tf2 item to be able to use chat on valve servers. Am i part of the problem too?
The gaming industry is f**ked. Who would have imagined this in the 90’s and early 00’s? An absolute disaster. It’s disgusting. I hate it. And yet gamers love this - WHY.
Because they make excuses for giant megacorps. Gamers will say stuff like "erm you're just poor" or "akchooally it's just a cosmetic skin"
Getting kids to scan their id….. ya this is priming
That's shady af
@@makatron Roblox is known for a pedophilia scandal, too. Whoever had that "brilliant" idea need to be:
1. Fired;
2. Investigated.
Can't wait till someone hacks Walmart and then have the kids explain that their credit card information was stolen
I actually JUST bought a mattress from a, "going out of business" sale, but the owner, name, and model of the business isn't changing at all. What IS changing is their distributor. All of the major manufacturers don't cross-sell in the same physical location which is why Sleep Number doesn't carry Sealy, or Serta with Stearns and Foster (may be wrong about specific brands). The "out of business" is basically them clearing out stock and basically re-opening with entirely different stock. Definitely a bit scummy, but it's also technically true... They are basically mattress dealerships.
It'd be like a Ford dealership "going out of business" only to have the exact same owner and crew reopen a Toyota dealership in the same location. Both can be named, "Motor Park Sam's" and change nothing visually except for the branded adverts.
*I hate microtransactions in video games.*
Linus is not just being a good parent but one that is properly informed and doing reasonable limits on things.
Before I watch the video, I must comment. Now that I'm broke (until new job) I realized how much I've spent on micro transactions. The truth is, I hate them but every time I made a micro purchase my thought was "well I kind of want it, I have a extra money. But I really don't want to support anymore micro's. Ahh screw it, I'm only 1 person it won't make a difference."
For those who think like me....We are the problem.
Back in the 1970s (I'm old), I saw an anti litter poster which was completely covered in speech bubbles all saying "My little wrapper won't make any difference." As you can tell, that stuck with me.
@@DavidCowie2022 I'm a 90's kid (born in 89) and I must say advertising was very effective with it's wording. I was replacing walls on a house and it turns out when they built it they used news paper. My God the ads where very direct.
youre not the problem man. there are real people who spend every second of your day using every trick in the book to convince you. it’s a social ill, don’t let anybody put all that responsibility on you
@@andrewdupper973 Sorry I cannot agree. I don't like to blame others for my decisions. I made the purchases, I had final say. I am not a liberal who thinks everyone else is to blame for me having made dumb decisions.
5:52 "I'm just kinda tired of having things shoved down my throat this hard". Linus, 2024 😂
Those predatory "games" (in name only) should be banned. They are actively damaging to children, and adults too if they never grew up.
what is predatory about it
Fortnite is a game in name only? Games should be banned because parents can't monitor their children's addiction to them?
It's not the government's place to ban things like this. That's how you end up with a nanny state. It our duty to just not buy them.
@@LoganChristianson I'm pretty sure they're talking about Roblox.
@@samhouston1288 Never worked, won't start working now. Seriously, libs and rightwingers seem to not think at all.
I knew at some point I was going to have to have the talk with my kids about addiction and being careful, and peer pressure. I did not expect I was going to have to frame that discussion around fucking microtransactions.
Been a while since I was 13, but exactly what kind of government issued IDs are they carrying around? First one I ever got was my Learners Permit at 16. There are (or at least were) Proof of Age cards you can get here, but does that count? If so, they need to actively go out and chase down this ID so that they can then be predatorially targeted for advertising designed to manipulate their developing minds? Quality work guys.
FYI there is a bunch of LTT themed items on the Roblox market for sale
How do you think he pays for his mansion??
@@allahdoesnotexist3823with the massive company he owns not by selling things in Roblox, there is no affiliation with LTT and roblox so those itema are made by someone else for profit.
For Luke’s comment on the merch messages I think the bigger problem is that it sets a price floor for what it takes to get a comment in. If I want to ask a question then you guys answering is the thing of value that I want, so I might be totally find spending $1 on that. But by locking it behind a merch purchase now I’m looking at a $5+shipping minimum. That price floor is more what people dislike.
They covered this already the issue is when there's no price floor people give their last 1 2 or 5 dollars when they really shouldn't, the idea is if you can't afford the 10$ you really shouldn't be spending money on somthing like this
@@Schmuly Oh yeah I don’t disagree with their decision, I also think they actively want to limit the number of paid messages because if anyone could ask something for $1 they’d never get around to actually talking about anything. But I think there are enough differences that it wasn’t a good comparison to make.
Im just tired of getting nickle and dimed from every game im interested in
The shady FOMO (fear of missing out) and "going out of business" tactics have been around for decades. I recall the classic "Roscoe's Oriental Rug Emporium" sketch from Almost Live. (Going out of business since 1957!) It's the same old scummy methods with a new name.
On the parenting advice topic - make sure you keep a running tally of exactly how much money was spent on any micro transactions. Ten dollars a skin feels like a mid purchase in the moment, but six skins and you say hey man sorry you can't get that new game because you spend sixty dollars on a free game. Can't do both.
I don’t even consider playing a game if it has micro transactions in it. My brain just turns off immediately to the idea that this game is any good. A good game doesn’t have micro transactions. Period.
It's all about the motive structure.
@@j100j I disagree…they’re all designed to abuse the player and separate you from your money.
I dont think the issue with buying both a physical and digital thing is that you would rather have just digital ones, I think you would rather have just digital ones and pay 2-5 dollars instead of 50+ for the real ones you don't need want.
My kids play Roblox quite a bit. I very rarely get them Robux. It took them a while of me saying, "Sorry, I'm not buying that" for them to get it. They very rarely even ask anymore, but still find ways to enjoy it.
What I tell them the most is if they want to earn Robux, they should develop a game people want to play and make money that way. They're working on it.
Child labor is honestly so based.
@@ForOne814🤣
LTT should do a video on online safety for children, it could help a lot of people
Roblox and Minecraft are legitimately excellent learning tools for kids. Even with the transaction angle from roblox, arguably if that's a problem you are missing a parenting opportunity. Watching my son set up if/then Rube Goldberg masterpieces in Minecraft in 1st grade, and not having an adult lead him to that activity, was extremely cool. I appreciated that.
Props to the less predatory game models that have a smaller cap on the amount that can be reasonably purchased/used. I love that helldivers caps at like $20 and does not have a $50/$100 bs bundle strategy for whale hunting.
and you dont have to buy SC to actually get stuff or the warbonds.
What is your opinion on the opposite? - games like Master Duel, in which every bundle, even the $200+ ones, have completely shit value, but the f2p experience is stellar.
@@Sovek86 they make you to grind for ages essentially forcing you to go and pay to get it faster. Pay to unlock fast is still pay to win.
From my personal experience i stopped endulging in microstransactions a few years ago. If I spend on games its to buy new games or dlc. In game purchases are a big no no for me. However with fortnite because I have Save the World founders edition this means I get on average 30k vbucks "for free" per year and this is the only way I get new cosmetics which Ive calculated to be wrth about 13 US cents each for the most expensive skins(just by dividing how much I spent on buying the founders edition va my total number of skins I gotten Thanks to it)
Since most of these games dont have options like this that benefit the customer more than the company in the long run
Something else that needs to change massively with MTX is forcing people to buy "premium currency" bundles while pricing everything in such a manner that the items offered never lines up with the amount you purchase, so that you basically always have to buy more currency instead of just either buying it outright or only purchasing the specific amount you are looking for.
This is actually done specifically to comply with gambling laws. If the game's currency is non-fungible and does not directly convert to any real-world currency, it cannot legally be considered gambling.
@@NovanByworks Gotcha. I guess they likely couldn't just allow you to buy the thing without their currency then either.
@@OutLanderUSN They do seem to prefer it anyway since the inconsistent pricing obfuscates the purchases' "real" value, making it easier to compel you to buy them. Honestly if I had any say, microtransactions would just be straight-up illegal. I can't think of a single game that has benefitted from their inclusion.
@@NovanByworks Oh of course. They bank on people buying a pack of currency to use in game, and buying another one later on because they're just short of the perfect amount, for something else, and so on and so forth. It's really scummy and I don't know why people defend it.
Agreed. They ultimately serve no purpose but to separate fools from their money.
We wanna talk about the deep dark hole of star citizen I’m guilty of 8+ years of supporting that imagine that amount………
I still laugh at people buying cosmetic garbage in call of duty warzone, I played for free until I got enough COD points to buy the battlepass and from then on I just get enough points to buy the next one without using money.
If I play a free game so much (100hrs+) I think it's fair to put back $20-60 depends on my financial situation though.
The problem is some of these microtransactions (lootboxes/gacha in particular) are just gambling. It inflicts all the same social ills that gambling does. It's an addiction, and people who are weak to it, end up spending all their money on things they do not need, and will even neglect their rent and food to keep playing the addiction.
they great part about Helldivers 2 is that you can earn super credits on your VERY FIRST mission. Chances are while you grind out one warbond (basicly other equipment and cosmetics) by doing missions, a good squad of find everything will get you SC on every mission you do while you'll need to do several just for one part of that warbond.
At no point do you have to buy SC unless you want everything unlocked off the bat and even then, its kinda a bad thing if you do.
If your kid is not 13 years or older he probably shouldn't be on Roblox, the Roblox moderation system has been known for being not being that good.
I usually participate to the development by freaking paying the product. I'm not a lemon to be squeezed, and I can't be squeezed by games that squeeze my kids. I'll die on this hill.
Linus is such a good parent and i wish more would be like him
it's so easy not to buy microtransactions, I will never understand the compulsion
Certain personalities are more prone to it.
There is a boatload of research into the best way to keep people hooked and spending on apps and games, and it's being perfected more and more. A lot of people will still resist of course, but the more normal it is, and the more necessary it feels to get the most out of a game, the more people will be sucked in. Especially young people.
I have an aversion to microtransactions because I grew up back when a game was a game, and not a.... I don't even have an analogy. But for kids these days it will just be normal.
U need to learn different personalities of a person. Thungs that work for you might not work for others especially children
Before I ever played Fortnite, I swore to never spend any money on the game. I just wanted to play with friends, but they ended up bullying me for not having a skin, so I bought the "cheapest" £4 skin pack.
If you play a lot of Fortnite, you can work your way through the battle pass, where you can unlock limited time cosmetics. Every 3 months, all your progress is reset, and there is a new battle pass to work through. The only catch is that while free players can unlock the skins but cannot use them. And if you do not buy the battle pass during the 3 months "season", you can never ever unlock those skins again. Just before the reset, I ended up buying the battle pass because I'd spent 3 months working for those skins and I did not want to miss out.
3 years later, I can so clearly see how I was manipulated into spending money using incredibly unethical tactics, AND I cannot refund any of my digital skins.
I'm the type of guy Luke mentioned. I've had a lot of restrictions on my spendings as a child. No consoles other than a handheld Tetris machine and a Famiclone an I was never allowed to have any phone that was over $100, which always left me with envy towars my peers. The time I've started to have my own pay checks pretty much lines up with the time Android started seriously spreading, then a few years later I landed in a job that paid way more money that I was ever taught to handle. So I can't handle money, and now I have everything I was never allowed to have: High end gaming PC, Switch, PS5 and everything I need for them. And I can't even count how much money I've wasted on virtual goods.
I was given pretty much everything as a child, to the point that it's my parents that were suggesting that they should get me a new phone and I refused, because I didn't need or want a new one. I also asked to be given money as birthday gifts, because I could accumulate decent sums to buy cool stuff. So I did a lot of research on what I actually wanted, and through that learned how to spend money. I also made a lot of money off of CSGO gambling back when I was 14, when it was a new thing. My mom used to let me play slot machines, they were everywhere when I was little, before the regulations were introduced, so I also learned how to gamble correctly. The most crucial thing I learned is to never bet what I'm not willing to lose. And also to never play slots, those are boring anyway, roulette is way more fun and sports betting is way more profitable.
I like the days when I was a kid, you paid for a game and you got all of the game's content.
The only winning move is not to play.
I don't understand the arguement for "i don't need the real headphones i just want the digital one*
Never in my life have I purchased anything extra on a game. Literally 5 years ago they used to include eveything in the game and was unlockable by doing in game tasks.
This is basically Webkinz, the Internet has come all the way back around
$8.99 for a battle pass that gives you on average 5 skins, a ton of cosmetics, and way more that enough vbucks to buy the next battle pass isn't a big deal to me. My family has never bought extra skins or cosmetics outside the original purchase unless we were gifted a gift card or something.
i think battlepasses are the most acceptable (currently available) form of micro transactions, if you genuinely enjoy the game you’ll complete it anyway, that’s like $10 every 3 months? that’s acceptable to me, it should cover 95% of your cosmetic cravings (obviously i’m not saying everyone should buy battlepasses, but if you play a game a lot it’s not a big deal)
Games like Fortnite also give back 50% more than they cost. My brother bought it once and hasn't spent money since
It’s very important to teach self control with micro transactions. I was very susceptible to it and had spent a few thousand in the last decade between Clash of Clans, Fortnite, and Destiny 2. I could have easily had built another beast of a computer with that money. Those were dark times indeed, luckily I have mostly regained my senses of control over the desire for instant gratification.
My sister started playing Fortnite a couple of months ago. To incentivize self control I have clearly told her that I would only be buying her first battle pass. She will only receive the in game currency from that pass. She can choose to save it to buy the next battle pass and continue getting in-game items, or she can squander it and wait till a birthday many months away. She still makes poor decisions on “cheap” items, but she has learned to control herself enough that she can still get the next pass. A friend’s mom had asked my mom if my sister would like some more in-game currency since they had an extra card, and I told her to turn them down. It would just have messed with the self control curriculum I had set.
I am childless but I would make myself very unpopular and ban all social media and any game that isn't buy once and play forever(nearly).
The parenting strategy that you describe does work, as a young adult whose father employed similar strategies for in-app purchases in the early 2010's. I've stuck to F2P and light spender accounts, knowing that traps like the ones that you mentioned for Fortnite do exist.
learn from that i love my gadgets too but i definately am putting a moritorium on more stuff.
"Their" credit card information
I understand you want people to get something physical out of their money. What i dont understand is why you actively dislike when someone wants to only GIVE you money.
How about this, lukus lébastion,
Let them recive nothing. Take that T-shirt they didnt want, sell it and donate the money to charity.
Or, donate the T-shirt to charity.
Or, dont take the money at all, donate the original donation to charity.
You're in a position to pass on goodwill. Let people give you the money, knowing that you will use it wisely. If you think they are being foolish with their money, perhaps you can put it to a better use?
Hey Linus, about the micro transaction talk, I as a kid was always taught to save money and not spend it unless it's for a pretty special occasion and i can tell you as an adult I'm I am pretty stingy sometimes, I'm kind of a money hoarder, the feeling of money go up surpasses any feeling I'd get for buying something i want by this point lmao
im 16 i played fortnite and roblox alot when i was younger and wasn't allowed to spend money on it, so i just earned free robux by doing surveys, and i got free v bucks from the battle pas. when i had enough i got the battle pass and finished it every time so i got enough v bucks to get it again. and that way i still got the items i wanted without spending a dime.
5:52 🤣
This is why I've never been angry about myx all that much because the answer is simple. Don't buy them. I don't know why that's so hard to understand.
I don't understand why they can't understand that merch messages don't appeal to everyone. If I wan't to send a payed message now I'm forced to buy something I don't need and pay expensive shipping. That doesn't make sense if I just want to send a message to the show. I can get it that this can reduce the amount of messages you'll receive and it incentivises people to buy more often on the store.
I don't understand why you wanna send a message that badly. I just don't send a message to the show, it's pretty easy. Cause here is the thing you are litterly throwing money at the screen as they don't have to and might not even awnser your message.
I could have put a down payment on a college education for my kid with the money spent in fortnite. The best part is that after a few years suddenly one day fortnite isn’t cool anymore. He never plays fortnite anymore. If that’s not a reason for other parents to avoid buying stuff in fortnite idk what is. They WILL eventually stop playing these games and you can’t sell a Fortnite NFT.
Buying digital stuff seems a silly waste of money to me, but, if getting a hat for your character makes you feel good for a while at least when you get tired of it then it won’t immediately go into a landfill. So many dopamine hit purchases are fast fashion or tech or whatever plastic thing you want in the moment are just going to be garbage.
sounds like they tryna bypass the 30%
1:11 best dad advice, Respect
It’s not just the advice that was good; it was the way he handled it too. Good parents learn that just telling kids not to do something isn’t that effective. He asked a question that primed the kid to respond with the ‘correct’ answer then praised him for it. [Chef’s kiss]
Its almost as dumb as a solid gold controller
A solid gold controller retains value. Digital microtransactions and your opinion, on the other hand, hold no value.
Skylanders was huge a decade ago. Amiibo and Disney Infinity to a lesser extent.
5:53 - Linus out of context.
Saying no is the right decision but also pointless as long as there are enough whales that say yes. Most people do not buy into this stuff.
why is this a thing when a standalone app is the same thing
and it's spending money on virtual digital crap that ain't real and doesn't really matter
A vid on micro transactions that I could show my kid would be nice, given that he trusts linus.
The amount of friends I have with 10 thousand dollar plus inventories in csgo, but also don’t have their own home is astounding to me.
Homes cost way more than 10 grand, maybe that will end your confusion. Seriously, how old are you to say something so inept?
@@CrAzYpotpie I think you misunderstand the concept of a down payment + they pay rent similar to that of a mortgage where I live (in Michigan houses are rarely over 200k, most around 100 with rent being around a grand a month for an apartment) I don’t think you understand how home buying works??
At least they could sell the skins
@@bilboswaggens2975 Buying a house usually requires applying for a loan, and most likely a large down-payment. Buying an item in CS:GO just requires a credit card.
How do you know they even want to own a house? There are _some_ advantages to renting.
Also for a bunch of these games such as Fortnite....If you play it enough and moderate your "spending" of the in-game currency. You can actually play the game for free while receiving a lot of content for free. You just have to be patient and earn the in-game currency through playing the game.
On the topic of merch messages: I don't want to pay import tax just send a message
I thought that Luke was joking about showing the id, credit card and addresses
I’m currently living in Fortnite/V-Bucks hell. My son constantly asks to buy skins and emotes. I’ve come to absolutely hate Fortnite.
Ha they ask microtransactions to be on floatplane to them read chat.
That’s part of the reason my kids still don’t own a smartphone while majority of kids in their class do. My kids adore reading books and I’m going to keep it that way as long as it’s humanly possible. And I’m a geek. I love tech, smartphones, video games, you name it. I will never allow my kids to join the dummy club of microtransaction crap. Ever. They’ll be allowed to play games eventually, and own items and games. But no microtransactions period. Not until they’re adults making their own money. At that point, if they still do it, then I failed as parent I guess.
I'm definitely more liberal with my spending on certain games as an adult because I couldn't as a kid, but so many of the "microtransactions" of today are obvious consumer exploitation.
I have 5000 hours in fortnite, I love the game and the time of life I was in when playing - A $20 skin once every few months felt the equivilent of buying a new game. I'd much much MUCH rather do that as opposed to shelling out for "Day 1 DLC" or go way above board and pay $80 for a "triple A" release that's actually terrible.
Chilrean are preyed on though and it is remarkably understated. Linus' generation of parents should be way more aware than they are, given they grew up with this evolving right in front of their faces
Parents having a sit down with their children?
How could you say something so controversial yet so brave
I applaud you Mr. Techtips
i bought the single player/coop gamemode in fortnite and even a couple of skins in the pvp gamemode after it just came out.
it was really unpopular back then and the devs were puping out updates as crazy and i just honestly kinda wanted to support a "hidden gem".
i don't like what they did to the game, like trying to compete with robox or whatever????????
It’s obviously just a way to pick money out of pockets. If the game has micro transactions, I stay away. Usually not a very good game to begin with if you have to sell extras
if mcdonalds had to stop its cartoon because it was advertising to children then everyone else should be banned too.
Why not have a limited time item like halo headphones and you can ONLY get them via buying the in game skin that would be cool
The biggest problem I can see is that if this anywhere near somewhat successful it’s going to set the precedent for other companies to follow suit. Gaming should be about fun, not let’s shove these items in your face so you and all your friends feel like they should buy said item. Some micro transactions aren’t bad per se, but as a whole something that was just a way to improve profits, became a way to make profits. Battle passes, 20 dollar skins, and in some cases actual pay to win. Its ruined games that could have been good. I feel that something that costs more than 5$ is no longer micro transactions. 20-25$ cosmetics for a game that cost 70. Just a little over 1/3 the price for a cosmetic, it’s stupidly insane, but it will never stop because people keep buying them. The only way to make change is when a vast majority of the gaming community band together and actually work together to either, stop them or cause there to be a limit on how much a single item can cost.
Somehow the word 'Microtransactions' stuck? George Carling discussed the use of language like this talking about what was originally called Shell Shock. Google it, its funny because its true. Microtransaction feels small, insignificant, irrelevant. But your right and I think it was never 'micro'. There should be some renaming going on. Games companies are really happy with this language as its in their favour. Standardise the language so when you read about in game spending you know it can costs lot of money.
Microshoplifting. Digital door greeters. Virtual layaway. Ewww.
Can't wait for them to be addicted to Gacha Games.
I wish we could regulate these games into oblivions. I wish we could make all forms of micro transactions so restrictive that all of these games die. No league no valorant no csgo no fornite. Force these comapnies to atleast make shitty yearly releases again
I start to appreciate that some characters are paid skins in fortnite. I was worried that solid snake was going to be a level 100 skin. I would have had to pay the battle pass (9.99 usd) plus the extensive 50 hours of grinding doing objectives instead of playing for fun, so you can have a skin.
1 hour of work = fortnite skin
1 hour of work + 50+ hours of grinding = fortnite level 100 skin.
Of course, if they start charging more than $10 usd per skin, I'm out
lol fanatics.. I have no doubt that fanatics actually does sell out of stock that fast
I have a 30 year old friend who is absolutely addicted to fortnite skins and he justifies it by saying he has no kids.
restricted things are the best, bought all my restricted things as soon as i went living on my own :)
You bought robux at age 20? Thats alittle sad😂 Or you saying you bought meth and cocaine as you weren't able to as a kid?
The only sad thing is your demeanor.
Imho micro transactions is fine if your game is free to play
If your game already cost you 60$ they shouldn't add micro transactions
Ive heard these lootboxes and in some sense all microtransactions tickle the adiction part of the brain
Saying just dont buy them is like telling an crack addict to just dont do drugs. Yah easier said than done
I dont mind some games having it as i still see a micro transaction addiction is "better" that actual cocain addicion
But my complaint is that it is in almost every fucking game right now
honestly why are minors even allowed legally to buy online anyway.
Tricking people into merch messages is brilliant. You actually convince people you are the generous ones even though your actually just making money and leeching from people.
Not that it's bad, I'm genuinely impressed with your sale tactics. No hate.
pro Linus opinion. I refuse to participate in microtransactions, but I do support DLCs or deluxe editions of some games, ie Helldivers
if a game is going to restrict me by multiple paywalls i just dont play it. if its something like a skin i jdut ignore it. Dont waste money on shit like this.
LinusTechTips builds his fortune with young impressionable people wasting away on CZcams watching his content. But God forbid someone else does it.
well then u better start complaining about every ither u tuber.
In Fortnite what I do is just play enough to get the v-bucks in game and then get the battle pass. If you have smart money spending skills, and patience you can get skins without paying real world money, and that's what's great about Fortnite.
the way it works is that each season you can get up to 300 v bucks by doing quests. If you save up through 3-4 seasons you can get the battle pass for 950 v bucks, and if you complete that battle pass you end up getting your original v bucks back, thus you can get next seasons battle pass.
So it really is just patience and smart spending skills
I like to imagine the majority of adults who are familiar with the gaming industry share the same attitude as Linus and I, people who buy microtransactions are "suckers". However a single mentally ill gambling addict can make up for 1000's of us not buying.