Thursday, August 29, 2013

News::Spending Time: The Creeping Horror of Microtransactions in Full Priced Games

IncGamers' Peter Parrish takes a look at the devious business of adding extra charges to full priced games. "Of all the pernicious publisher practices out there, microtransactions in games youve already paid full price for are surely the worst. In fact lets dispense with the term microtransactions altogether, as it seems to have been designed by committee to make the concept sound as inoffensive as possible. Using the word only legitimises that deception. Most of the time they are anything but micro."



via N4G: pc news feed http://n4g.com/news/1343280/spending-time-the-creeping-horror-of-microtransactions-in-full-priced-games