Fans constantly fault the company for unfriendly practices including intrusive DRM (the cause of the SimCity debacle) and questionable tactics with regards to micro transactions and DLC, which are sometimes felt as a type of gouging.
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The online rage over micro transactions is really not as wide spread as some would like people to think, nor is the issue nearly as new or ill received as critics would have the public think.
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However, one solicitor told the BBC that the practice became "legally grey" once micro-transactions were involved.
The latest sci-fi horror shooter from EA includes micro-transactions, despite being a paid game.
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The game will likely employ micro-transactions, which have become all the rage in the free-to-play gaming space.
Nelson says WGT gets more than the industry average of 3% of its users paying for these micro-transactions.
Rather than generating revenue from micro-transactions, the LEGO Group will continue to rely on monthly subscriptions for the game.
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Mass Effect III included its own multiplayer micro-transactions, and that model seems a likely one for Ubisoft to emulate.
The increases (in micro-transactions) is better than the opportunity in real money gaming.
The game will embrace micro-transactions, allowing players to buy new card packs with hundreds of options of spells, weapons and characters.
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Last June, the company added the ability for game developers to enable micro-transactions and the sale of virtual goods in their games.
Approximately one-quarter of those players are paying for micro-transactions in the game.
The rise of micro-transactions in video games can be traced to Asia, where they were introduced as part of efforts to combat piracy.
Whether cheating in games with micro-transactions qualifies as theft is something I suppose the courts and the IP lawyers will need to hammer out.
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Now that micro-transactions are at play, all that might be changing.
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These micro-transactions will allow players to move through the progressive "grind" of leveling up and unlocking content, but Welch said the battlefield will remain even for all players.
Bad reviews due to slow or crashing apps cost their owners real dollars if users pick higher-rated competition, be that in retail or a game depending on real-money micro-transactions.
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Other cash-generating businesses on the horizon for publishers include subscription fees and micro-transactions for small pieces of game content sold over online channels like Xbox Live and PlayStation Network.
But I also think it serves as a distraction from other complaints leveled at the game publisher, such as DRM concerns, day-one downloadable content, and micro-transactions included in full-price games.
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The free-to-play business model that now dominates the U.S. games industry was forged in China, where piracy forced publishers to offer games for free while making money through in-game micro-transactions.
From the team that created Titan Quest, Grim Dawn has big ideas for the future, including full-blown expansion packs rather than micro-transactions or DLC that will introduce new stories, classes, and so forth.
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Enter Sibblingz: a startup that Tuesday launched a cloud-based game server that allows game developers to more quickly and easily create free-to-play games with micro-transactions in them, across Facebook, iPhone and the Web simultaneously.
Kotick notes that there will be many difference from the U.S. version of the game, including the business model, with a free-to-play model supported by micro-transactions in the game to do things like buy weapons, vehicles and armor.
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