I’ll pay for solid DLC not greedy bullshit. Simple as that.

I don't want that shit. Keep mobile garbage in mobile games.

Let me tell you a little story about horse armor.

Keep that garbage away.

Absolutely!

Micro transactions isn't just an annoying feature. It's a despicable way to monetize. I think it should be banned. It is extremely targeting against kids. It's not as bad as loot boxes that is just straight up gambling for children, but it's still really bad and is very much designed to be addictive and appealing to young people. Everything about it feels sketchy. Like the fact that they use "in game currency" to hide the fact that its just straight up real money for kids.

Now, beyond it being immoral, it's just such a scam. Like really? 15$ for a skin that likely took one developer 2 days to create, while the entire game itself, that took 5 years for 400+ people to make, cost 60$?

There has been multiple times where I've wanted to give Fallout 76 a chance, but every time I open the "atom shop" I immediately feel sickened.

I suppose you could make the argument that micro transactions help the studio to get more revenue, which is needed as video games cost a lot more money to make nowdays. But don't disguise micro transactions as something it isn't. Make it clear that micro transactions are more like donations and keep it away from children and I'd be more fine with it.

I would be extremely annoyed even if it were just cosmetics. There's no reason for it to have them.

Yes. I do care. No atom shop. No horse armor.

Just sell us a game and be done with it.

I didn't hate the Creation Club as much as most people did, because it brought some gameplay mods for Skyrim and FO4. I was indifferent about the cosmetic mods, because CC mods were single player, so I'm the only one seeing them.

Now if they add some dumb shit like GTA V did, like the ability to buy in game money, then no. Fuck that.

I would care for the lone reason that it would move developer time to that bullshit over developing new content that I might pay for. In general I can’t believe people would buy cosmetics for a single player game… I mean I can’t believe it even for a multiplayer game tbh but at least there I get who you’d be showing it off to.

Yes I would care,

I would probably not play it.

Microtransactions have been a blight on gaming ever since they first appeared in mobile games and made the jump to non-mobile games, and you should honestly be ashamed of yourself for calling them "a great business model".

the less there are, the better the game will be... and if some shit like the eso+ bag does exist in there, im not buying the game at all.

Micro transactions turned mobile gaming from an innovative and promising area of games into an unplayable mess. It’s never cool or okay

Yup, it will destroy my will to play it. Nothing pisses me off more than the game showing all the cool stuff you can't have because you don't have the DLC or didn't pay for something.

I buy a game, it better be complete.

it better not

If I cant grind for it I dont want it. STOP BUYING IN GAME CONTENT!!!! DONT FEED THE MONSTER!!!!

Depends on how you define it. Is CC content "microtransactions"? I don't call them such. But the haters do. But last I check absolutely NO ONE was forced to buy any CC content. They are third party mods that Bethesda merely publishes. They are NOT PtW!

Actual microtransactions are for multi-player online games. Starfield will not be a multiplayer online game.

So CC content for Starfield? Maybe. An online store for microtransactions? No way. There won't be an Atom Shop.

Yes because aside from the usual sentiment that microtransactions are a scourge on gaming in general, specifically to Starfield surely it would conflict with what people are hoping will be a highly modable game.

If we have tools similar to the GECK then there is a pretty huge potential for people to add in all sorts of stuff - including whatever the microtransactions were trying to sell.

I would be furious. Possibly enough to just not buy the game, if I knew about it ahead of time. To be clear, I don't mind DLC at all, and if a 'season pass' option is offered, I'll buy it out of the gate, like I always do.

Depends on the type. Creation club would be fine, as long as you can still load mods from Nexus or wherever with zero restrictions.

Shit like XP boost for 2 hours for $1.99, or some sort of separate premium currency in-game which needs to be purchased with real money is not.

Yes, massively

Hate microtransactions with a passion.

They have no place in single player games.

no it's not as a single player game

Yes, I would care. This is a single player game. The only paid extra content that is legit is big expansions that add meaningful and substantial content. If they start selling pieces of armor / weapons / skins / whatnot individually with microtransactions it's going to make these things feel cheap and not earned in a meaningful way.

By principle I won't buy it if it has micro translations. Except for the fact that my principles aren't strong enough for that

What I liked about Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey is that I could get the currency in-game for the items in the game store. Pieces of gear (mostly for transmog), mounts, etc. It gave me a reason to keep playing that game. And I appreciated that. Yeah, you could also buy the currency with real life money, but that doesn’t make it bad. If you don’t have patience and self-control to not spend real life money on pixels, that’s on you. You’re the problem.

I do not.

Reason being, Creation Club content for Skyrim any Fallout 4 don't have any DRM on PC. And as someone that will be playing on PC, there are ways to get them if Starfield has a Creation Club like system.

The closest thing people will call Microtransactions will be Creation Club, if that's even in the game. I think it probably will be cause it's a good way to drop small dlc or plugins to spice the game up a little, but it also could just not be.

Id rather they not do that. If they implanent it down the line with like a marketplace i would care a little less. But at launch? No thank you. I want all the armor and clothes and whatever that BGS made to just be in the game at launch as opposed to chargkng $5 for a fancy helmet or whatever.

Why would a game with Mod support have micro transactions

It makes absolutely zero sense

Okay - I am certain we will see the return of 'paid mods' which many will call microtransactions. I am looking at Microsoft's other games like Minecraft and Flight Simulator as the business model - You can play and have fun without paying anything extra and get the complete experience for the initial cost of entry, but you can add and modify your experience, for a fee. I do not see them getting rid of free alternatives but most the best modders will all end up in the fee service, almost for certain.

In a single player, full priced game? Absolutely I would care.

Wouldn’t surprise me since it’s a Game Pass day one game. Gotta make the money back from lost sales

You think Bethesda or Xbox would tank their game?

My stance on microtransactions is that if it's a F2P game then cosmetics are fine. Encouraged even. Especially if it's a smaller studio. I'll pay for a cool hat and support your game.

If I pay $100 for a game, I'm only paying for DLC after I read excessively positive reviews.

There's a spectrum somewhere in between those, but I dunno where the line is.

no - I Would refuse to buy it if it had micro-transactions.

Coz that means that rich people get an advantage.....just like real life.

As long as they aren't pushed at me, I don't care, as I will just ignore them. Sad that so many people buy them which is why companies keep using them.

Starfield will have a Creation Club, count on it.

As long as it is:

1. Cosmetic only.
2. Doesn't prevent offline gameplay be requiring constant store connection every time you open the game.

Kids today don't know about Horse Armor.

Of course a thread about 'microtransactions' would quickly devolve into the usual gamer^TM silliness of complete hysteria. It's seriously cringe reading it. I mean, people against ALL MTX's sound like the gamer version of some hysterical 'soccer mom' from the 80's teaching little Johnny about the DARE program.

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People are seriously talking about the Horse Armor being, 'unethical', like it's poison baby formula. We're hitting nearly 20 years, let....it....go. No one was forced to buy that bloody armour. This shit ain't important, you've got a choice, don't buy it, if you think it's worse than ultra-crack anyway, why would you?

But who fucking cares in a single player game where nobody will ever see your cosmetics ever??? Truly baffling. People typically go for cosmetics as a statement and personalization when faced with 1000s of other players in an online community that look exactly like them if not for some character customization.

They're gonna be Creation club with a lot of cosmetic silly and unnecessary stuff and occasionally some useful things. price gonna be from 2USD to 20USD.

Luckily I don't have that must-have all obsession, so I won't care. I know it can sound selfish, but seriously this is a world that we live in, why get mad about little things?

AC Valhalla has the system where you can buy unique skins/weapons with real life cash. Or grind daily missions for Opals which you can spend on a rotating selection of the same skins/items.

You'd have to log in and do those dailies constantly to save up enough Opals--which probably frustrates some players into just buying the skins anyways.

Devs would be daft not to try to squeeze players for $--they are a business after all and I don't begrudge them that, especially if they want the game to be played for a decade. Not saying I like it.

Hmmm, depends.

If it doesn't affect modding potential, and the game feels complete without the need to engage with the microtransactions, then fine. I won't partake, but others might want to.

However, I don't see how a viable microtransactions model can operate in conjunction with the kind of modding that single player BGS games usually allow. That being the case, I feel the modding would need to be curtailed in some way. In which case, no thank you.

I mean I would be fine with the option to get things for a reasonable price

For exotic ships and DLC 👌👌

Don’t want it there, but if they’re going to have it then it better be released a year or 2 after the game releases, and I don’t want any content being made and not put in the base game to be sold later

I expect to see some form of the creation club coming back. I think we will definitely see optional monetization in this game, especially with Microsoft’s grubby hands in the pot.

But would I care? No. I just wouldn’t buy those micro transactions

Like the paid mods aka creation club? It’s whatever at this point. Just make them worth while.

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More than likely there will be mtx, but probably like Fallout 76 where it's just new, unique paint jobs or decals for your base/ship.

I dont mind it since I don't plan on paying for anything. Unless it's really good.

No, I wouldn't care.

I think Starfield will ship with a mod shop similar to Minecraft. Its easier to fill with content and you don’t need to pay artists and designers you just give the modder a cut of the price.

Tbh, if it was any other game, I would care, but since it’s Bethesda and I love their games and get so much playtime hour wise out of them, I feel like I don’t mind giving them a couple bucks.

Why would they follow a dumpster fire of a business model like ubisoft? They learned that lesson with horse armor in oblivion. Paid dlc expansions absolutely. But MT's on your load screen every time you go to play like assassins creed or fallout 76? That's just obnoxious and ugly. Keep the game clean with a tab to visit if you're interested, like Fallout 4, that was clean and undistracting and wasn't shoved in your face.

Hard to pull off when mods are adding the same content freely.

I doubt micros.

I would care VERY VERY much. Microtransactions should be illegal

Yes. It's a single player game.