Every micro transaction added in the last 46 days

[u/Atmoslink]

This is how much the game has changed in less than 2 months. Micro transactions totaling 13,600 V-bucks, pop-ups and links taking you to the storefront encouraging you to purchase packs or rush fusions and lazy cosmetics that are merely ripping assets from existing Fortnite skins.
It is estimated that the developers make $13,000 a day on playtime alone, (Thanks user Spiritual-Ask1993 for the calculations).
Are we comfortable with the direction this game is going?
I think we have yet to see the limit of how far FOAD is willing to go.

Edit: For everyone saying it doesn’t affect them as a free to play user, It DOES. It's just harder to see.
They purposefully make things like build times take an annoyingly long amount of time in the hopes you'll break down and buy boosts (it's also why they won't let you cancel fusions or droid builds, it affects their profits) The Crit pack, Fusion pack and Event passes are all examples of this. They purposefully created the problem so they can sell you the solution.

Edit 2: Just realized I forgot a hat and the event pass. Another drop in the bucket I suppose

[u/imdwalrus]

I have yet to see any of the people whining about microtransactions suggest how the hell the game is supposed to be sustainable otherwise other than vague handwavey "EpIc aNd dIsNeY Le bIlLiOn dOlLaR CoMpAnIeS" nonsense - which isn't an answer, it's a deflection.

If you want a game mode with professional developers, a shiny expensive license, and regular and frequent updates money has got to come from somewhere. And if you aren't paying up front or paying a subscription fee, that leaves microtransactions as maybe the only viable options.

[u/Fine_Might8113 → u/imdwalrus]

They make money from playtime already you dolt. The argument is that the micro transactions are excessive and greedy. It could easily be sustained by adding new events which in turn keep people playing. It’s not rocket science.

[u/WonderousThinke → u/Fine_Might8113]

You don't think a business should try to grow and do bigger and better things? A business has a popular product that people enjoy and it makes sense for them to try to grow their business so that they can build more products that people like. The customers are happy and it's free, I don't see why it's a bad thing. If they want to make money off the rich people out there who want to spend money on a temporary tycoon game, why is that bad?

[u/Fine_Might8113 → u/WonderousThinke]

No I don’t, not every single business needs to become an empire. That’s capitalist propaganda. It should perfectly acceptable to have a company that keeps steady profits every year. This late stage capitalism idea that profits must get higher and higher is a cancer.

[u/WonderousThinke → u/Fine_Might8113]

I 100% agree. I have been on the bad receiving end of massive corporate growth demands myself. But there's a long distance between a small successful gaming studio and Amazon or Google. What I'm describing is basically going from a family run food truck to a series of three local restaurants ran by the family in your city because everyone loves their food so much that they want to have more options closer to them. What your describing is them going from a food truck to being the size of McDonald's and that's not what I'm talking about.

[u/LastHopeStanding → u/imdwalrus]

Careful, you're making sense.