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Microtransactions Dominate 58% of PC Gaming Market Revenue in 2024, Full-Priced Games See Decline
The PC gaming market continues to grow, with players showing a strong preference for spending money on microtransactions rather than full-priced games. According to the latest 2025 Gaming PC and Console report by Newzoo (thanks TechSpot), the picture is clear: microtransactions made up 58% of all PC market revenue in…
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Microtransactions are Ruining Video Games, Says Creator of It Takes Two and Split Fiction
During the launch of Split Fiction, Josef Fares, head of Hazelight Studios, shared his strong views against microtransactions, a topic he is particularly passionate about. In an interview with Fall Damage, Fares explained how these systems negatively affect game design. He said, “Every time you make a design decision to…
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CD Projekt Red Speaks Out Against Microtransactions After Dragon’s Dogma 2’s Fiasco
According to a comment that was made by the Chief Financial Officer at CD Projekt Red, the company won’t be adding any microtransactions to their upcoming and current single-player games. I’m sure this made every gamer everywhere sigh a sigh of relief, as it should, because microtransactions don’t belong in…
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EU Votes to Officially Investigate Loot Boxes and Microtransactions!
The debate surrounding loot boxes and microtransactions within games, despite much talk, continues to wage on. – Publishers like EA, Ubisoft, Blizzard, Activision, etc. do not believe that they are a form of gambling, but rather ‘surprise fun mechanics’ (EA’s own words there). The thing is though that pretty much…
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Resident Evil 4 Remake Concerns as ESRB Rating Cites ‘In-Game Purchases’
With the Resident Evil 4 Remake scheduled for release on March 24th, the hype for this upcoming title is already pretty high from the community and particularly since this is, at least in its original form, one of the most beloved games the franchise has ever produced. – With that…
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EA Says Gamers “Love” Loot Boxes – In Other News, PR Team Accused of Smoking Crack!
I think it would be fair to say that despite the number of people who spend money on loot boxes, overall, the various methods of microtransactions that have continually and more pervasively crept their way into games over the last 10 years are an overwhelmingly unpopular thing within the gaming…
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Diablo Immortal Player Spends $100K And Are So OP They Can’t Get a Matchmake!
The predatory nature of Diablo Immortal’s microtransaction system is hardly any secret and my opinion on the game has always remained the same. Don’t play it or if you do, please don’t feed the beast of modern gaming loot box mechanics! – Simple right? Well, apparently not. You see, despite…
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Diablo Immortal Has Reportedly Made $24M in its Opening 2 Weeks!
You would’ve been forgiven for thinking that given all the negative news surrounding Diablo Immortal (pretty much ever since it was originally revealed) that it was probably shaping up to be one of the biggest gaming flops of 2022. – This is, of course, primarily driven by the fact that…
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Blizzard is Hiring a Microtransactions Manager for Diablo 4
I daresay that it probably hasn’t escaped your attention that the decent release of Diablo Immortal has come with more than a little controversy for Blizzard over the predatory nature of its in-game economy. – Put simply, while the game itself is actually pretty good fun, to get a truly…
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Twitch Streamer Spends Over $6,500 on Diablo Immortal – Gets ZERO 5-Star Gems
While Diablo Immortal might seem like an excellent game on the surface (which it is), it’s hard to deny that the predatory nature of its in-game economy has caused it to (quite rightly) be maligned by both fans and critics. With it being estimated that it would cost either $110,000…
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Diablo Immortal Character Max Out Costs $110,000?! (More Like Diablo Immoral!)
Diablo Immortal didn’t get off to the best of starts when it was initially revealed at Blizzcon back in 2018. – A moment somewhat cemented in the history of the internet when a moment in the Q&A led to a fan asking if this was “an out of season April…
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Gaming Legend Sid Meier Warns Devs ‘Focus More on Gameplay, Not Monetisation!’
Sid Meier is undoubtedly one of the most respected names in gaming. Well known for his highly-popular ‘Civilization‘ franchise, when he has something to say about the current state of the industry, you know it’s probably not just worth listening to, but what he has to say is probably going…
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UK Introduces New In-Game Ad/Microtransactions Rules!
Microtransactions and in-game advertisements are undoubtedly a huge and very lucrative part of gaming. Particularly so in regards to the mobile remit. For many years, however, people have increasingly voiced their concerns not only over the general nature of gambling involved in many such ‘loot box’ items but also the…
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FIFA 22 Will Introduce ‘Preview Packs’ to Battle Loot Box Controversy!
Being as fair and diplomatic as I possibly can be, the opinion of whether ‘loot boxes’ in past FIFA games is a form of gambling is devided. EA says that they are not, and (nearly) everyone else says they are. Given that you ultimately don’t know what you’re going to…
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Google ‘Considered’ Buying Epic Games to Stop Lawsuits!
As you’re probably aware, Epic Games is currently in the middle of more than a few legal battles as it attempts to take on both Apple and Google and, specifically, the commission they charge for sales on their respective platforms. Put simply, Epic Games doesn’t think that it’s fair that…
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