{"id":135613,"date":"2017-12-11T23:33:58","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T06:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135613"},"modified":"2017-12-12T07:30:08","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T14:30:08","slug":"micro-transactions-lose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/11\/micro-transactions-lose.html","title":{"rendered":"Micro-Transactions for the Lose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While this is labeled as a parody against EA&#8217;s <i>Star Wars Battlefront,<\/i> the fact is it works as an explanation of why micro-transaction games of any title are &#8230; just &#8230; rrrg &#8230; no.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll pay for a monthly sub if it a game&#8217;s that engaging. I&#8217;ll pay for an occasional nice quality-of-life bonus. But a constant death-of-a-thousand-micro-transactions? No thanks.<\/p>\n<p>(Note: this applies to Real Life, too, where such things are more likely to be called <i>&#8220;a la carte<\/i> services&#8221;. Give me a package deal where I&#8217;m not constantly digging into my wallet if you want me to consider something enjoyable.)<\/p>\n<p>(Except for Cable TV, where I would love to go <i>a la carte.)<\/i><\/p>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AGmXPk5MhuU\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/e6grKAzQv5B\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While this is labeled as a parody against EA&#8217;s Star Wars Battlefront, the fact is it works as an explanation of why micro-transaction games of any title are &#8230; just &#8230; rrrg &#8230; no. I&#8217;ll pay for a monthly sub if it a game&#8217;s that engaging. I&#8217;ll pay for an occasional nice quality-of-life bonus. But &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/11\/micro-transactions-lose.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Micro-Transactions for the Lose&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,22],"tags":[377],"class_list":["post-135613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-gaming","tag-gaming-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Microtransaction-Comic1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4978,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/11\/21\/all_your_e_comm.html","url_meta":{"origin":135613,"position":0},"title":"All your e-commerce are belong to us!","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 21-Nov-03 10:22am","format":false,"excerpt":"AT&T has a patent on e-commerce. 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