It’s hard to get good at a video game. It can require a ton of practice and effort. You’ll have to hone your skills over time, training your eyes and fingers to react with split-second precision and speed.
Or you could just use your credit card.
Dead Space 3, an upcoming sci-fi horror game from Electronic Arts that will be out for 360 and PS3 on February 5, will allow you to pay money for weapons, according to a new Eurogamer report. Real money for fake weapons.
“You can buy resources with real money, but scavenger bots can also give you the currency that you can use on the marketplace,” associate producer Yara Khoury told Eurogamer. “So you don’t have to spend [real world] dollars.”
So, yes. It’s hard to get too mad at the idea of optional micro-transactions — in many ways this is just like the cheat-enabling Game Genie that you could buy for many Nintendo systems back in the day — but it’s also hard not to envision a future where some unscrupulous publishers force their developers to make unbalanced games in which you pretty much have to buy optional weapons to proceed.
And you thought Dead Space 3 wouldn’t be scary.
Dead Space 3 includes micro-transactions for buying better weapons [Eurogamer]
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