News - Micro-transactions Ruined Warzone 2, Will They Ruin Cod 2024 Too

The article game we're talking about, by itself, turns away such large portions of the player base. Cod used to be a working-class article game, a playground where nothing mattered but how will you pone noobs now it's just another bgea fashion contest where the kids with no money have to have it rubbed in their face the kids with money are wearing better clothes it's dumb and it's boring and when you [__] up the incentive system like that you unsurprisingly disincentivize people from participating, the long-term thrill of online multiplayer was working towards impressive unlocks and better stats It gave every kill and every victory extra meaning, extra dopamine as you felt it moving you closer to this or that goal, the satisfaction of making a little progress on this recreational project each day after school, pushing your skill further and testing it in different ways, but it just feels silly to put in that kind of long-term effort when we all know you can get light years further in a heartbeat just by dropping the 20 bucks on it that whatever you do accomplish people will just think you bought it, so how many players play how much less, how many wouldbe tweeters tweet how much less, and what do we lose when we lose the participation?

Of so many of our peers, both social media and online multiplayer, live or die by the network effect, the more people there are participating. The higher the quality of the product, the more playlists and shorter matchmaking times, and the better pins and tweets. A higher rate of great tweets a bigger audience for your tweets on either platform, more connections, more friends, and more jokes more laughter and more love, more to learn, and way more dopamine—how much network effect has been sacrificed so that Activision Musk can farm extra revenue out of the worst people in the world?

What happens when all that's left on COD or Twitter is a small group of dards? With so little imagination, they can't think of something better to spend their money on than hollow tokens of virtual status to try and fill the empty void left in the wake of their brutal apathy and entitlement. And most horrifyingly of all, what if the corruption of these platforms is just a symptom of a much larger rot in Western culture?

I ended up buying the blue check mark myself, despite checking Twitter every 3 to 7 minutes for the last decade. I don't actually tweet that much but I do tweet out my new articles and its important traffic and even with a few thousand followers and having had an OG check mark my tweets got literally zero views after the new microtransaction, model and so I realized I was going to have to play along musk had [ __ ] strong armed me so I did and sure enough my tweets went back to getting the kind of traffic they used to and I was bitter but it had to be done because this was the game of real life now and in that moment it occurred to me how much of the real world is locked behind microtransaction, barriers the same way like if you want to be a star athlete or artist or whatever you better hope your parents poned up the cash to get you in all the clubs and extracurriculars.

From the time you were 2 years old; otherwise, you'll never compete with the kids whose parents did, and what is college tuition if not the world's worst battle? Pass a clear 20 to $150,000, dividing line separating the halves from the have not, the salar workers from the wage slaves, and now all public space punishes anyone not driving a car, so everyone has the car payment insurance payment maintenance gas To have any kind of real-world social life, you've got to be able to afford the bars, and that [__]] adds up to running for public office, which is an absurdly costly endeavor, and so unsurprisingly.

The majority of the Congress are millionaires, and we all know that every study confirms that people treat you so much differently based on how you look, so it's $75 for Designer's Plain and $200 for makeup and body spray, breast implants, and testosterone pillars in overpriced gym memberships in Tinder Gold and Twitter Blue.

And if you can't afford that [__], you're definitely not getting laid, but even then, it's another $2.99. For an orgasm on only fans, it's a pay-to-play world, and a lot of people can't pay, and they don't get to have a life, and they don't get to move up in the world, and those that do so increasingly.