It should because I absolutely hate everything they stand for. People who complained about GT7's "predatory" practices early on in the game's life don't know what they're on about because GTA V was and still is THE WORST when it comes to microtransactions and the economy. Imagine inflating the price of a $30,000 car 20 fold to essentially force the purchase of a microtransaction. You don't want to grind, right? This is how Rockstar screws people over. Trust me, I bought into it because I too wanted certain things without having to grind and waste time. It's the sort of thing Clash Of Clans has done with it's gemstones and you can very easily go overboard because the game is free to play. You're like, "just a bit more, just a bit more" and before you know it you've spent $150 on a trivial game. My brother spent that amount on microtransactions in GTA V and mum was pissed off because he got a hold of her credit card somehow. This is the **** Rockstar can cause and I hate it for that. I could go on about how they beat a dead horse with GTA V, the horrible working conditions and the shuttering of studios responsible for other IPs such as Midnight Club. They're money hungry capitalist scoundrels.
I partially agree. The greed of the cash-for-GTA$ system, and Rockstar's management of vehicle and property prices is appalling. Good point on mentioning GT7, too, as it also has the option of buying cars for up to $300AUD. F2P and mobile games prey on enabling an addictive personality in their players, hoping they don't realise they're spending sometimes thousands of dollars a month for virtually nothing. Purchasable in-game currencies should have never been legal, and exist to the detriment of all games.
Rockstar is just one part of Take-Two Interactive, who also own 2K and Zynga, more of the worst offenders in this space.
If purchasable in-game currencies ever are banned, it will be an abrupt end to 'Fortnite' (good riddance!), all mobile games besides 'Flow', 'Snake', and 'Solitaire', and 'GTA Online' would be very different. Annual sports games would have to actually try and improve their gameplay rather than make new tiers of virtual trading cards, and every cool hat you see in a game would be unlockable. Basically utopia, or gaming before 2009.
My reservation, and reasoning for only partially agreeing, is that we can't fairly shutter Rockstar for their greed without dismantling the whole "diamonds and crates" ecosystem that they exist in, and that I don't want them to go broke just yet, because I want to play the single-player component of 'GTA VI'.
To run on that virtual sand, see the next-gen beer-bottle condensation on my own TV... I know my selfish desire to play this shiny new game only makes giant corporations wealthier, but if the product is good, and I want it (on console), there's not really another way. I'll just offset it by spending a lot more money on indies.
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