Well argued rebuttal to the Overwatch micro transaction argument

I feel like his arguments just fall flat. It seems a ton of you will disagree with me, but hopefully we can keep this civil since we are all TB fans and love civil discussion right?

To start off, his psychological manipulation argument. This in my opinion holds no ground as no study or proof shows the level at which Overwatch does this and even simple everyday conversation includes some. When I tell a joke, it is to get a certain reaction from my friend. I want to make him laugh, to some extent, we could even call this psychological manipulation. To argue that they are evil and anti-consumer just because they are a company doing the same thing everyone else does is just a bad argument in my opinion. In reality, Overwatch is extremely tame in the way it pushes loot boxes or skins in comparison to all the other games out there that charge $10 for the skin with no other way to obtain it or very slow progression which this game caps to make sure it never gets too slow. His entire argument just seems to boil down to "We are encouraged to pay, so it must be anti-consumer." There is no intent, no proofs, very few reasonable comparisons and in the end he calls it a free-to-play game. Nothing he said had any support or merit behind it and we likely would not have received skins in the first place without paying in some form outside of the cost of the game. He assumes that we would should have received the skins for the cost of the base game which I argue is just being entitled at this point.

Calling it anything-consumer pro, anti, whatever is honestly too vague of a term in general. We could call it something like consumer-friendly to mean that it is less exploitative than the current standard, but in the end everything is subjective and I can't help but fail to understand how people can look at the loot system in Overwatch and call it anti-consumer if they have played any other game made in the past 10 years. Ask Blizzard to add some currency at the end of each match as TB said to make it feel more rewarding and consistent, then move on and complain about a game that is actually making scummy decisions rather than criticizing arguably the one company that is willing to meet us in the middle with their profit methods.

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