Inventory slots as a Micro Transaction!

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Real_Wolf wrote:

To be fair.

It IS pay 2 win, technically.

BUUUT

Its only a small benefit over the f2p option of mule accounts.

When compared to inventory slost which would significantly speed up the benefits of farming compared with the f2p option, that is the asy way to see why

I agree with you, too.

Personally, I think it would be more ethical to represent this as a commercial game with a limited free demo mode, and limit the free demo even more than the current free game:

1. Two stash tabs (per league).
2. Eight character slots (total).

That's plenty to experience a good 50+ hours of free gameplay. Extremely generous for a game of this quality and level of polish.

Then sell the actual game for $35+, with eight stash tabs and 24 character slots.

I can see how the above suggestion would NOT be popular. But I prefer indisputable honesty over freebies any day.

The current situation is much more generous, but the "stash tab transactions aren't TECHNICALLY pay2win because you can always set up a second mule account" argument comes off as disingenous at best, when GGG is using "ethical microtransactions" as a political platform.

It's worth noting as well that GGG are pioneers in this realm, and their competitors are watching closely. They will have a great deal of influence on publishers to follow.

Just my 2c. Like I said, GGG is being much more generous than I would be in their shoes.

Feel free to flame away. :)