TheLoneBeet said:
I never bothered to cancel my pre-order. If people are going to get pissed because certain guns do more damage and others having better firing-rates and all that, I don't see how you can be upset with the company. Every gun in pretty much every game have varying stats. Why so pissed because there'd be one more option for people willing to pay for it?
It's called a "slippery slope", especially when it comes to online gaming.
I don't know if you played Chromehounds, but there was a pretty nasty shitstorm over certain ingame weapons and parts which were purchasable via Xbox Live Marketplace that had notable advantages over non-purchased parts. Certain mech builds which thanks to the stats on the purchased parts quickly developed, and broke game balance between those with purchasing power to get those parts and those without. The intent -- to encourage players to purchase parts through the marketplace to stay competitive, and to continue power creeping via the marketplace (and milking money through microtransactions) -- was clear.
The point is that when competitiveness in games becomes linked to purchasing power, players must pay and continue to pay to stay competitive, and players without said purchasing power get screwed.
