Middle Earth: Shadow of War
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Soldato
Standard edition was £28.68 when I applied the code.
I very rarely do pre orders, but the last game was so good I decided to take a punt at that price.
Sorry yes, £28.68. Cheapest I've seen.
Im not supporting this game for a multitude of reason, one being the cash shop/loot box/whatever it is in a 60 dollar game, another is all the shade around the whole donation dlc. Its ****s since the game looks pretty cool otherwise but ill guess i will just have to play something else.
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Didn't they announce that whilst their intention was to give the money from overseas etc to the family they couldn't advertise it due to legal reasons. But due to all the controversy they were going to make the DLC in question free and make a donation directly to the family.
Caporegime
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Yes they did.
Also loot boxes will not be required to play/complete the game as it was balanced without them and is just for idiots who want to spend money to cheat at the game.
Problem for me is that they did not change their politic due to the goodness of their heart but because of the massive pressure from everyone around them. If their intentions really was as you described they wouldn't have initially have kept 1,5 dollar of every purchase for themselves. It stinks to high heaven.
What matters to me is if it can have a negative impact on my own experience if someone else buys those crates and to the best of my understand it can due to that multiplayer thing that is suppose to be in the game. I don't want to pay top dollar for a game only to be forced through a cash shop if i want to stay on the multiplayer ladders. That is not a fair business model.
In the end i guess i cannot really blame them that much. Its a business afterall and cash shops are lucrative. Its the ffing "whales" that is ruining it for everyone else. Cause if there were no market for it it simply wouldn't be a thing in games.
Soldato
The outrage around all this is a bit meh. People stamp their feet at the way it's originally handled, so the DLC ends up free and still the feet get stamped. It's very unforgiving. The way I see it, the company made a bad judgement call and made amends after consumer pressure. To be honest, I'd have bought the game at sub £30 regardless.
If I was going to moralise about every bad corporate decision, I'd be living in the forest eating berries and licking the moisture off jaggy nettles.
If I was going to moralise about every bad corporate decision, I'd be living in the forest eating berries and licking the moisture off jaggy nettles.
Soldato
I don't get the issue with the loot box/DLC/Microtransactions.
No one is forced to buy them. I'm pretty sure I can enjoy the base game without the use of any. Unless it impacts gameplay/gives an advantage over those who don't have them but then again it's not MP right?
No one is forced to buy them. I'm pretty sure I can enjoy the base game without the use of any. Unless it impacts gameplay/gives an advantage over those who don't have them but then again it's not MP right?
Soldato
It does impact the game though IIRC
The lootboxes make the MP mode P2W. Also, the base game will in some way be balanced around the lootcrates even if it is minor and barely noticeable, it will be there and effect your SP experience, it is impossible for it not to be. The biggest kicker for me with this though, is that if Shadow of War becomes a success, even if the microtransactions do not turn a profit, it will make other companies think they can just slap microtransactions on everything. In turn, if this will eventually lead to even one premium or single player game being released at some point which is balanced around microtransactions, then that is one too many. The very likely scenario is that Shadow of War prompts many future titles into incorporating microtransactions and when that happens it is only a matter of time before they become balanced around them.
That will be the end of gaming for me and many others, purchasing this game is supporting that direction for gaming.
Soldato
I don't preorder anything these days. there is no incentive to do it.
I usually wait a few months to go through the previous games I haven't played ad get it at around £19.
Games I do preorder tho are say BF1 and the Witcher 3 / GTA5. don't mind paying full price.
I usually wait a few months to go through the previous games I haven't played ad get it at around £19.
Games I do preorder tho are say BF1 and the Witcher 3 / GTA5. don't mind paying full price.
Soldato
From what I have been reading from other then the main reviewers no u can only get up to epic orcs from free box's where if u pay for box's u can get legendary orcs
Generally the reviews say most of the additions are good but the story is rubbish and drawn out (which given the first isn't a surprise) and the loot boxes are pointless. On that basis I'm more than happy as the story is simply a sideshow for me.
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The most negative review I read complained about there being too much to do!