Assassins Creed's PUSHY Microtransactions + New Dev for Walking Dead? + Star Wars TV Show Details

@masher14 not really. they're probably just not playing it as it was intended and only doing missions and not exploring. I played Origins and it had something similar so I went to every locations since that gave me a decent amount of XP for simply finding it, then I did all the side objectives in the area and that maxed me out way before I was even close to done with the story.

@blinkybe There were also a lot of people who defended Warner Bros. for the micro-transactions in Shadow of War. Same story there, majority of the game worked perfectly fine without them, no need to include those, really. Then you reach the last act, where the final cutscenes are locked behind 20 long, tiring siege battles + the number of sieges you need to reclaim the territories you're likely to inadvertently lose during those sieges, because the enemies you encounter rise more than 10 levels above what you previously encountered in the story and you'll have a really difficult time actually staffing all your fortresses to hold out against enemy sieges. All of that was doable, but it was a massive departure from the rest of the game that became soooooo much less grindy and annoying if you just forked over some cash. That said, I haven't played Odyssey, so I can't say whether it's actually done similarly here. Maybe they really did just add the micro-transactions as an option for people with less time on their hands. Could also be that the micro transactions were added with the full intent of making the last portions of the game a grindfest, so that people will have become invested in it and will fork over some cash to finally get to the end, rather than be stuck doing monotonous tasks for another 20 hours or however long it may take.

@Voij I get where you're coming from and I'm pretty sure there're others who share your thoughts. However they aren't forcing people to use micro transactions, so I'm going to continue believing my previous statement/comment until they actually block part of they game with a pay wall. Cheers.