You do so knowing that you are, in a real way, hoping for the death of another Capcom franchise. If you choose DMC5 as your hill to die on in the fight against MTX, you do so knowing that Capcom will take the wrong message from the sales, as they have without exception during their nearly 40 years of operation. If you don't like MTX, complain loudly and often and eventually, Capcom WILL listen! But you can't have your cake and eat it too. If you want more DMC after 5, buy 5 regardless of MTX. It won't have MTX, or be F2P, or anything. If you don't like the MTX, complain! Loudly! Often! Don't let the Capcom PR teams sleep! But if you boycott the game with the expectation that DMC6 won't have MTX.
DMC 5 MICROTRANSACTIONS SERIES
I have seen this so many times with so many series owned by Capcom. Once the game is out, it doesn't matter how bad it is if it doesn't sell, it's because "consumers don't want X franchise." Capcom, without exception, is a company that will only accept fault BEFORE release. The thing is, a rational company would see the good sales of past games, and try to determine why the new one didn't sell. Breath of Fire had an unpopular game (and was dead for a decade) and then a bad game. And you know what? This kills most franchises it happens to. They always, without exception, attribute it to "lack of interest." Always. They do not and have not, ever, at any time, assumed fault when a game fails to sell. If DMC5 fails, there will NOT BE a 6! Capcom is remarkably consistent about this. If you plan to boycott this game because of MTX, which you have the right to do, you MUST also acknowledge that you are contributing to the failure of this game, and therefore the series. That's why it's there.I've said this several times now, but since we have a megathread.
And as always, this isn't optional because at the moment there will be no version of the game that doesn't have progression and game design built around and affected by an in-game real-money store. This whole monetized in-game economy thing hurts what should be the focus of the game, and certainly impacts how it's designed and how players are rewarded for play. So you have to make the decision between going for the cheaper stuff or saving up, getting the thing that has a lot of application but you’ll have to spend time learning and perfecting."
Partly because of you save up for that you’re not going to be able to buy as many skills, so you’re going to have the time to learn it. So people will think, ‘Oh this is cheap so I’m just going to buy this.’ But then for the stuff that’s going to be harder to use and master, we make that more expensive. The first thing is the stuff that we feel people should want to get first is made cheaper. "It’s interesting because from a game design point of view there’s two different things we think about when we set the prices of the moves, skills, and abilities. That's not about gameplay at all. Hideaki Itsuno continues:
I suppose it's not about giving players choice then, is it? It's about nickel-and-diming through game design and player progression, elements fully controlled by Capcom in a way to maximize profit. Okay, can we play it with all unlocks without spending extra money beyond the retail price of the game? Nope. You should be able to play it the way you want to play it." But on the other hand I don’t feel you have to get all the moves. If they want to save time and just want to get all the stuff at once, those people can do that. "With giving people the ability to purchase Red Orbs, it’s something we want to give people as an option.
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