Loot Boxes Microtransactions: Necessary Evil Or Just Wrong

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It's a sad truth that plenty of video game ideas are cut short far too early, while less imaginative or promising franchises are turned to due to their profitability. But as this list of spiritual successors and sequels shows, developers often have the last laugh, and prove their prior publishers wr


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That's right, the most profitable mainstream video game series of all time, Call of Duty , began its existence as a spiritual successor to the critically acclaimed Medal of Honor: Allied Assault . After the game marked a high point for the Steven Spielberg-led franchise, 22 members of the development team left to found Infinity Ward , entering into a relationship with publisher Activision to create a brand new WWII series of their own - Call of Du


Publishers are learning what they can and cannot get away with in terms of nickel-and-diming consumers with microtransactions, much like they had to learn about what they could get away with in terms of larger DLC content. Capcom's fighting games became infamous for including DLC characters on the game disc, but employing the shady practice of keeping them locked behind a pay wall. These days, consumers are more savvy to such practices, and the practice of slicing off part of a game and selling it later is far less prevalent than it once was (although pre-order bonus missions remain the bane of many a gamer's existence). In a way, loot boxes are a way around that, as the content granted by the crates can usually be earned within the game itself. It's locked away from most players, but in a different way than Jill Valentine in Marvel vs Capco


For the most part, barring atypical examples like Sonic 3 and Knuckles , expansions were exclusively the domain of the PC gaming space. That all changed with the launch of the Xbox 360 and PS3, with their easily-accessed internet capabilities. Almost immediately, nearly all games had some sort of DLC avenue, from extra multiplayer maps in titles like Call of Duty and Battlefield , to new areas to explore in narrative-driven games like Fallout 3 and Borderlan


Typical DLC (downloadable content) comes in the form of levels or expansions. Back in the old days, PC games would receive "Expansion Packs," such as StarCraft: Brood War or Diablo: Hellfire ; they're not sequels, but they, as their classification suggests, expand upon the content of the original game, while working within the same framework and engine as the origi


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It's been said that DLC and microtransactions are a necessary evil. The price of a video game in 2017 is the same as it was in 2005, and the secondhand market continues to eat into profits. DLC and loot boxes allow some money to ultimately find its way into the hands of publishers and developers, even if that player purchased their copy of Shadow of War from GameStop or a local used game st


The Fallout series was tossed into the headlines over the nature of sequels/successors/reboots when Bethesda revealed that they would make Fallout 3 a first-person shooter, not a classic role-playing experience. The game's success among modern RPG fans killed much of that debate, but is especially interesting given the fact that Fallout was itself a spiritual successor to Interplay's previous post-apocalyptic RPG Wastela