Monolith has announced that Middle-earth: Shadow of War will feature micro-transactions. As such, gamers will be able to spend real money in order to purchase Loot Chests, War Chests, XP Boosts and Bundles via the game’s Market Place.
According to the developers, no content in the game will be gated by Gold. As such, players will be able to collect in-game currency in order to unlock everything. Naturally, players will have to grind so it will be interesting to see whether the farming/grinding is in ridiculous levels (so that it can force players to pay with real money in order to unlock things).
Going into more details, Loot chests contain gear of varying rarity and can sometimes boost players’ XP. War chests, on the other hand, reward with new Orc followers of varying rarity. Last but not least, Training Orders can help players customise the Orcs in their command.
In order to unlock Loot chests, players will have to use the in-game currency (Gold + Mirian). Mirian is a form of in-game currency that players earn by playing the game. On the other hand, Gold is a form of in-game currency awarded in small amounts at specific milestones and for participating in community challenges.
Monolith concludes that Gold will not give players any advantage over other players, and that a player who invests enough time can progress the same amount and have access to the same content as a player who purchases Gold.
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lost 60 bucks from me for sure
Thats the spirit, love it
This is just pure greed. 60 Euro should be more than enough for them but no no no no We want more. F@ck WB, they lost me on this one.
60$ for the game + season pass + slot machines.
ohh and if you just want to ignore the slot machines, lets find out how much grind you will go through.
you cant trust the people that that build the system for financial gain to have you(the custumer) in the best interest.
They weren’t going to have us in best interest either way but this just puts it into no no territory
no it’s good, people who pay for their games got no problem with this video games development is getting very complex and expensive gotta support the developer for such a good series
“people who pay for their games got no problem with this”
Lol nope.
“PCPirateRace”
Aha. Obvious troll be obvious.
(now cue dagoatf*cker whining about me calling this obvious troll out for being a troll)
what? this game is only around $25 in my country steam page,
I Buy and Play and Like only Videogames with Single Player Campaign without Microtrasactions or DLC’S Skins SeasonSeries etc.
I Happy to buy games same RECORE (19€ at launch date) 1010 my review , full complete and beautiful game , funny gameplay and storytelling.
So i will not buy this game coz i dont want to support who make videogames with that sort of bad thinks.
It was my most anticipated game of the year but now after reading this I’ll wait for the game to be cracked no game cost 60$ should have micro
Boy, will I enjoy paying peanuts for this tittle…
the more recognizable title the more stupid ideas they have. same with destiny2 and blocking of OBS to enforce ppl to use nvidia spyware geforce experience
Indeed
“the more recognizable title the more stupid ideas they have.”
I’m pretty sure that’s the ESA’s unofficial motto ^^
So, the inevitable attempts to introduce microtransactions into single-player $60 games have finally begun, I see.
And it’s Warner Bros. leading the charge! Wow, what a surprise….. /facepalm.
i’m not interested in this franchise since i realized how shallow everything is but microtransactions are just unique orcs and in game items i think so it’s not harming anyone unless it’s one of those always online games which i think it is
As long as it stays optional I don’t care(short term), when it becomes mandatory and a common practice that is when it becomes a problem.
The thing is one can easily say this is the beginning of a bad practice so you have to nip it at the start before it gets out of hand and adapted by every game. I can totally understand this thinking and agree.
It’s a tough call, as a game dev I get why they do it. In reality $60 is nothing for a game considering what it takes to make a game from start to finish. Anyone that makes games knows this is true. My personal thoughts though as an aspiring good game dev is make large DLCs or more like an old school large expansion for your game and charge a fair price. Micro transactions are evil and should be banned from any none F2P game.
My vote is say no to micro transactions in any none F2P game, support proper DLCs or just leave the game as it is.
I have been looking forward to Shadow of War hard core and will still get it. Man I really hope they don’t ruin it 🙁 , I am pretty sure this stuff is optional.
That’s the thing, it will be a problem when you allow it’s foot into the doorway. We did this with Blizzard’s OW, now all the other AAA pubs want that same slice of pie. Star Wars is doing it, Fortnite is doing it, Mobas are doing it and now a AAA SP game is doing it, it has no actual end at this point as it’s already established within F2P games.
We have never needed MT’s in all of history. They only exist to siphon money from people in a less aggressive manner. They have to toss in an artificial grind in order for those MT’s to exist, without the grind the MT wouldn’t even exist, because we’d be back to the old days before they existed, before the artificial padded grinds were put in place.
I think it was CS:GO which popularized microtransactions in paid games.
Injustice 2 and I think Street Fighter V, 2 AAA fighting games did it too…. very sad news
I 100% agree with you. The focus is business now and not making good games + content 🙁 and that sucks. I haven’t played Shadow of War(at E3) so I am not writing it off, but I am worried.
I know everyone has to eat and at the end of a day you have to run a business but it does not have to be this way. There are other ways of making money with good software, quality DLCs, content and respecting your customers.
The thing is the moment MT’s are put into your game it then has fundamentally changed the design of your gameplay etc and that sucks. No one is going to add an option in the menu MT’s mode [ Off – On ] that will re balance the game to regular none MT mechanics. Just look how something trivial as an FOV option is still not mandatory in every 3D game, so there is no way the MT’s option will ever happen.
Let’s hope this practice goes away 🙁 or at least stays away from our SP games.
That’s their issue they will have to deal with, for us, we need only stay the course with our principles and standards. IF we can hold out longer than they can ever hope to, we will come out on top and they will crumble within the next decade as their practices drag them down.
There is another glaring issue I’ve noticed over the years though. When you look at say the builders industry, people that do a shoddy job can be sued or even arrested for doing a cheap job while asking for a lot of money, people purchasing jobs from that industry have someone looking out for them and multiple watch dogs. With the games industry we only have reviews and word of mouth, we have no legal binding watch dog that can step in and obliterate these companies for trying to treat us like dirt, like whales and cheap guppies to siphon wads of cash from. Any other industry that went this far would eventually get a huge lashing, but not the games industry, because people still see it as a kids past time, a toy and something non important worth fighting for.
I love gaming, I’ve loved it since I was little, but I honestly think it’s the one industry that needs to change big time and have a legal binding force to watch over it or at least to protect the consumers from the insanely rich corps, because not having a force there to keep them in check means they will constantly toe the line and abuse their consumers till the end of time.
There’s plenty of long-since established legal framework to work within, it’s just that these things never get to court (see: No Man’s Lie) & when they do the publishers try to weasel themselves out of the responsibility by claiming “it’s not my fault, blame the other guys!” like with Alien: Colonial Marines, where the idiot judge actually fell for that sh*t after Gearbox lied through their teeth about the circumstances using clever word ploys & whatnot.
After all, the only time these a$$wipes are interested in being in court is when they’re trying to f*ck over each other in regards to contract breaches or IP breaches or ZeniMax just wants to make themselves feel relevant by harassing someone.
We don’t need a Better Business Bureau, we just need a single law firm that’s got their sh*t together to get up & start filing class action lawsuits over all the laws that are being routinely, repeatedly violated “because as far as we’re concerned, we can get away with it, so F*CK YOU :D”
If a BBB was going to do the trick, we’d have already seen an effect from people collectively calling out this bullsh*t on various non-shill websites, YouTube, etc. No, these people don’t give a flying f*ck about the public’s anything unless they can visually see it affecting their bottom line (ex. OpenIV). Other than that, the only thing they understand is legal brute force rammed right up their tight bungholes. After all, they’re just a bunch of corporate suits treating this industry like any other out there, wherein the consumer is just some disposable sh*theel nothing worth less than their leather loafers.
“My personal thoughts though as an aspiring good game dev is make large DLCs or more like an old school large expansion for your game and charge a fair price.My personal thoughts though as an aspiring good game dev is make large DLCs or more like an old school large expansion for your game and charge a fair price.”
This would be f*cking amazing. It really is quite disturbing how the entire AAA industry has basically ignored every single lesson that the entire Witcher trilogy’s unexpected rise to massive degrees of success has to teach them. Seriously, it’s incredible how pathetic these people are.
Whenever I see news of a game by this publisher I feel compelled to…
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AAA industry is basically a slot machine husk of it’s former self. No more will there be a complete and full quality AAA experience without paying extra for less.
I can feel it, I can feel myself being that old granddad on the lawn yelling at kids to stop feeding dolt corps their money, only it’ll be now instead of 30-40 more years.
Hey, who knows, maybe if we’re lucky they’ll all go bankrupt & we’ll be stuck with middle-level AA & indie games for the better part of a decade or two? 😀
“have finally begun.”
Nah fam, they’ve been doing this sh*t for years now, starting back with Dead Space 3 where single player’s concerned. I hate it, but it’s nothing new.
Dead Space 3 had single-player microtransactions?
O.O
Monolith concludes that Gold will not give players any advantage over other players, and that a player who invests enough time can progress the same amount and have access to the same content as a player who purchases Gold.
I’ll wait — as I did for Shadow of Mordor — for the Game of the Year Edition to hit $6.
WB isn’t forcing you to buy any of these things to complete the game. I don’t see what the cryings about, just ignore them.
You again.
Alright, since you need a refresher course already; as I told you last week when you tried to push this same (moronic) argument last time; it’s the principle of it. In this case, the moment microtransactions enter the picture, it automatically negates any guarantee that they haven’t purposefully shaped the game in order to incentivise you into buying them.
In other words; the moment this enters the picture, there’s automatically no guarantee that they’re not artificially extending the game’s progressive unlocks through excessive grinding in order to try milk us all for as much as they can get.
No, they’re not holding a gun to our heads & saying “BUY OR DIE”, but they’re not guaranteeing that they haven’t f*cked with the game’s original vision in order to maximise profits from it, either. Remember when they used to chop off pieces of a game so that they could sell them as paid DLC to us post-launch? Same basic premise.
Though, I suppose in your mind, there’s probably nothing wrong with that, either, right?
So yeah, sure, I’m sure there’s at least a chance that they haven’t touched progression & unlock rates, but come on, realistically speaking, the chances of that are f*cking absurd. After all, this is Warner Bros. we’re talking about, not CDPR.
But no, please, keep trying.
Good Lord, all that typing and you just said the same tired s**t that gets posted whenever the topic of microtransactions comes up. After years of posting this s**t, what has your bi*ching accomplished? Nothing, microtransactions are everywhere.
The only way to end the growth of microtransactions is to ignore them. Complaining hasn’t and won’t stop them. What’s moronic is you don’t seem to notice that. Publishers live or die by ROI and if no one’s buying skins or horse armour they’ll go away.
Stop buying WB’s games, start a boycott do something besides what hasn’t worked and that’s bi*ching in the comment section.
Sh*t, you’re right.
I’ll now go waste years of my life trying to convince a bunch of 12 years olds to stop crying to their parents about spending extra cash in a video game in order to buy themselves some shortcuts to the finish line, because, yeah, that’s definitely going to work out for me, don’t you think?
Great argument, idiot. I especially love how you’re basically b*tching about people b*tching in comment sections. Really just hilarious.
“Ignore them.” Yeah, that’ll work. Moron.
What has your bi*tching and moaning accomplished? All these years of complaining and you what to show for it? I dislike microtransactions as well but im not a delusional fool like you guys. Money talks. So if your not effecting a publishers bottom line their going to ignore you.
So, “shut the f*ck up, because you’re not actually doing anything”?
Alright, okay, fine, thanks for pointing that out. Let me return the favour, now; shut the f*ck up & stop b*tching & moaning, because you’re not actually doing anything, either.
Thanks ^^
Yeah it killed the hype for me :I I dont care if single player, witcher 3 didnt need any of that BS , greed at its finest
it was clear since they announced the game
yes i see nothing to complain here
It’s a Square Enix game so in common with all such games its price on PC will drop off a cliff not long after launch if one shops wisely.
That said, if the gameplay for this game is a total grind without paying for micro-transactions then I won’t be buying it no matter how much the price drops.
????
It will drop price fast.
He probably won’t buy it even if it does.
what does SE have anything to do with this
What?
He edited the original post, it originally said “Square Enix” instead of “Warner Bros.” Forget about it, it’s just an edited-out typo that he’s using to troll you.
he saw the whole comment
Trolling implies some semblance of wit, so I think it’s clear that’s not the case.
you need to pay more attention to what you read
You wrote, and I quote: “what does SE have anything to do with this”
Maybe you need to learn to write, boy.
my writing skills won’t make you good at reading
to put it simply, if your brain is not capable of understanding, don’t blame others
That’s funny because initially, it was you who blamed me for ‘not paying attention’, when at that point I had only written ‘What?’ because your comment didn’t make any sense at all.
But yeah, I’m sure ‘my brain’ is the problem here, LMAO.
your iq is low accept it and move on
Killer comeback!
comeback form what?
you need to pay more attention to what you read
thanks, i’ll keep that in mind
dumb
Andddd the cancer is spreading…
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i find it ridicules how these companies think gamers are gonna stand for this
ESP on PC when you have trainers and what not, braindead publishers…
that’s why it’d probably be one of those always online game and it will probably have some sort of protection
only online games have been massive failures in the eyes of publishers
Diablo 3, Sim city… people will simply not buy em
To be fair Diablo 3 was extremely profitable, it’s just that Blizzard overstepped with the RMAH, whereas Sim City Online was just one giant total flop.
It’s not always online though.
it is
No it isn’t. Go read the updates on this.
well it’s all OPTIONAL! you don’t have to buy it, only pay $60, have your internet always on(DRM), maybe buy the overpriced season pass and you can grind your a*s to buy it!
2 years later….
Well it’s all OPTIONAL! i only buy my single player games for the main story so they charging for all side content is ok to me i guess.
This is only getting worse.
People like to believe that it’s optional, but it exists there for a reason, not because it’s optional, but for it to get in your way one way or another. Artificial grinds will only ramp up over the next decade, to a point where MT’s are fully absorbed within the standard business model and they are no longer “optional”.
We’ll be going right back to the 80’s and 90’s game prices, all because pubs and devs splurge their budgets and sign crappy expensive one time marketing deals that literally cost millions of dollars.
Or at least they’ll try to, if nothing else. After all, we’re right on the brink of a market crash. If they toe the line they can still avoid it, but if they keep pushing….. Yeah, not even 1-in-4 people buying a couple of microtransactions will save them from their shareholders wondering “WHERE THE F*CK ARE MY $60 PROFITS GOING?!”
I’m looking forward to it. I’ve got a backlog that will keep me going throughout the years of an eventual industry crash and I’m more than happy to replay the good ones and finding another hobby/traveling the world. Gaming isn’t anywhere like it used to be 20 years ago, it seems to have gotten uglier and worse as time goes on. There are some good gems out there, but there seems to be more dirt now than good.
“20 years of Metacritic scores shows a steady decline in 90 and above titles”
‘Nuff said ^^
And it’s also why I won’t be buying it either. Blizzard and others let open the gates for the cosmetic loot crate system, but now pubs have caught onto charging for cheats and shortcuts over the years, only now they are ramping it up in full force for most of their upcoming games it seems.
It’s really bad when an indie dev struggles to make their games, they come up with a middle ground, we accept it and then the AAA industry ends up taking up an indie support idea as their own when they definitely do not need it.
It’s really getting old with, “We put this microtransaction for those that can’t put enough time into the game to unlock things normally for themselves
attitude”
If you really cared for them you would have made cheat codes for free for them like many games that did in the past, since they have paid the same price as others why would they pay extra if they wanted to cheat? You either allow them for free or you don’t put them in the game
Good point. They could have put cheat codes in if it was really necessary to avoid a grind-fest but they didn’t because they want to sell the cheats a little at a time.
*weeeeeeeeeeeeeooooooooooooooooo* SPLAT!
Announcing DLCs before the game is released.
Announcing 100$ “collector” editions of the game.
Announcing microtransactions in a single player game.(which I believe will make this game a grindfest at best).
WB has hit a new low.
“You can get all the content without paying money!”
Pretty sure we all know what that means. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ae304131921a99442e8876967586fbbf6fe9d880605c78d008491edc6e90b64f.gif
Was going to get this on day one at full price, Looks like I’ll just wait 6 months or a year until it goes on sale!
Micro transactions on a game of this style is complete BS to speed up grinding or unlock stuff, Why bother playing if you are just going to pay to win.
A large expansion or DLC I can live with and support if they put effort into it..
Meh…
I’m not informed on cheating so I’m not sure if this is right but aren’t there trainers to cheat without buying these Microtransaction cheats?
I guess i’m passing on this then.
Which one? Where? When?
Syndicate as well, apparently, though at least U-BE-SOFT had the mental capability to deploy damage control statements immediately on that one, unlike Warner Bros. which still hasn’t guaranteed sh*t;
“The model for Assassin’s Creed Syndicate is quite similar to Black Flag, allowing players who do not have time to fully explore our huge game world to still be able to eventually acquire the game’s most powerful gear as well as other items. Rest assured, all of AC Syndicate’s content is available without paying anything additional and the game has been balanced such that microtransactions are 100% optional.”
ActiBliz also added them to the COD: Modern Warfare remaster.