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this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2024
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I'll repeat my comment from [email protected]:
Gonna be honest, I have mixed feelings about this.
On the one hand, I do agree that it's kinda shitty to charge $6 ($8 here in Aus) for something that was basically the thing people already had in the original game.
On the one hand, the description of it as "22-year-old JPEGs" is wrong. They're at the very least upscaled, but certainly in some form higher quality than the originals. There's also the fact that they're completely optional and unnecessary. They provide nothing but cosmetics, and not even cosmetics that you see in important places like character models. I also think it was primarily intended as a small added bonus for people with the Premium Edition, and to me the Premium Edition is a no-brainer for reasons completely unrelated to this. It costs like $20 extra, and includes the first two upcoming expansions free, each at $15 (or similar maths to that), as well as the Freyr god pack (like $10?). It's able to be bought stand-alone, but I don't think that's really what's intended.
Still, yeah I really think trying to upsell with this pack is kinda penny pinching in a way I wish they wouldn't do things.
I hate this argument, because videogames themselves are completely optional and unnecessary. That's the whole point of them, they're just for entertainment, to have fun and enjoy playing them. So I don't see how something being cosmetic makes any difference.
It's more like we didn't like pay2win on online games, so they started making it "just cosmetic" in those, and somehow now people think it's acceptable to have to pay for parts of a game they bought, in every game ever?
Well, people waste their money on useless crap all the time, so I guess I'll just be the cranky old lady and go back to playing my original AoM, where I'm actually playing a game and not an advertisement.
Yeah i hate that argument too. Cosmetics used to be unlockable, not purchasable. We've took a massive step back and people just give it a pass. Not me though