The Activision blog has outlined the next update coming to Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled on 2nd August and one of the most notable additions is the inclusion of microtransactions.
As there's now an excessive amount of cosmetic content in this nitro-fueled racer, Activision and Beenox will soon allow players to "fast-track" their Wumpa Coin collection. Essentially, you'll be able to buy more coins with real cash from the Switch eShop. Activision says this will have no impact on the core mechanics. Here are the full details:
With all this content available, there will also now be a way for players to fast-track their Wumpa Coin collection if they like. Starting in early August, players will have the option to purchase Wumpa Coin bundles from their game console stores to supplement the Coins they earn by playing. This option won’t change the game’s core mechanics – players will still earn Wumpa Coins by playing the game in any mode, just as before. They will just able to purchase additional coins if they choose.
The rest of the update, due out on 2nd August, will send players back to prehistoric times with the Back N. Time Grand Prix. It starts this Friday, runs until 25th August and is available to players with an online connection.
This event will come with new characters, skins, karts, customisation items and a new track. The new track is titled 'Prehistoric Playground' and will immerse racers in a world filled with Jurassic-themed content. The new items include the Nostalginator and Mammoth Karts, the "Fake Crash" skin and cave painting stickers. Baby T will also make his debut as a Grand Prix reward character (provided you complete the Bronze Tier of the Nitro Gauge) and a "Fake" Baby T skin is the final item in the Gold Tier.
As part of this event, the Pit Stop will be restocked. Some higlights include "adorable" baby versions of Crash and Coco. There'll also be some new skins like Mad Scientist Crash, Sabertooth Pura and Stone Age N. There are new challenges and refreshed leaderboards as well. For more information, check out the full blog post.
As for the future, even more characters (including Spyro) are on the way:
we’re also excited to let fans know that they can expect more of their favorite characters from the Crash Bandicoot universe to join in on the Nitro-Fueled fun in the seasons after. Get ready for characters like N. Brio, Nina Cortex, and Komodo Moe to start shredding up the racetrack soon!
Are you still playing CTR on the Switch? Leave a comment below.
[source blog.activision.com]
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Activision couldn’t resist. At least they didn’t ruin Sekiro with this nonsense. I would have wasted real money leveling up my character, or at least been strongly tempted by it.
Now we know why unlocking stuff was such a grind. I’d rather they added all gp content as a season pass and charged £15
Microtransactions in a Crash game. That doesn’t sound right.
@SlyPlayr09 Imagine being this much of a corporate shill
“Despite featuring online content and DLC plans for the future, all of Nitro-Fueled is microtransaction-free. In a sit-down presentation and hands-on during E3 2019, a member of the Nitro-Fueled team stated that the entire game would avoid microtransactions, instead offering new content for free during the game's life-cycle...”
Source: https://screenrant.com/crash-team-racing-microtransactions-gameplay-presentation-e3-2019/
Activision being activision. Adding microtransactions after the fact.
Classic Activision - ensure games are a bit unnecessarily grindy and less fun than they could have been, add microtransactions after release in order to avoid negative press.
What a woeful state of affairs. @SlyPlayr09 I don’t mean to be rude or single you out, friend, but that sort of attitude is making gaming worse for us all.
There was a time when cool unlockables were all unlocked in-game, and unlocking them was designed to be fun.
Shame, people can't just have patience to get what they want instead of being a little bit weak and resorting to buying thier way through the stuff instead of earning it like the rest of us, hope they don't try to sit on our level of hard earn skills.
p.s there should be a micro-transaction badge next to the users out of pettiness lol
edit: on a serious note though, people had a whole month to get the gp stuff, exactly what are they doing that prevents them from this?
I called this from day 1. Lay the groundwork with good reviews and get the player base in, then shoehorn in the microtranscations. Don't see why anyone expected any different from Craptivision.
@DarkLloyd patience is difficult when developers/publishers artificially stretch out the grind by drip feeding you the rewards to push you towards spending real cash.
@Galarian_Lassie To sneak
MT in a month later is so morally corrupt. It’s deceptive towards consumers with addictive personalities, parents concerned about their children’s consumption habits, and everyone else who doesn’t wish to buy games with MT in them. The “just cosmetic” crowd is missing the whole point of this debate.
The fact that they made a statement about this beforehand is even more of a shame. Thanks for digging up the dirt. ✊
"Wow I never saw this coming!" Said no one ever.
I expected something like this, so held off buying CTR, and thought I’d wait and see if the game was changed during the first 6-12 months before buying.
And now, Activision, I promise you, you will never get my money!
I was considering buying this game.
HARD PASS. Glad I waited, bless the internet.
How... unexpected.
@SpicyBurrito16 i think is fine, because skin is skin. Just like dota 2.
@BornInNorway81 why? The core gameplay is very good. Microtransaction is only for skin and accessories. It doesn't make the game unfair. The in-game system of wumpa coin is quite fair too
@SlyPlayr09 I fear you're missing the point. These microtransactions are not aimed at moderate, level-headed adults like you and me, they are aimed at kids and people with addictive personalities that will just buy everything regardless without thinking and rack up massive, unnecessary costs.
It's great that you are enjoying the game and if you feel like dropping an extra five quid or so because you are happy to give something back for a game you consider excellent value then that's brilliant, more power to you. Unfortunately though you are not the target, it's the vulnerable members of the audience that are targeted and exploited. It's sad and it needs to stop.
Disgraceful
After playing my 64 for the past few weeks I’ve realised how bad gaming has become
Activision wants EA's crown
Yup, kind of figured this was the case. The way the shop was set up, the seasons, and just how grindy it all was. All of these things pointed to a game primed for MTX. I stopped bothering with the Tawna event when I realized how much I'd have to grind to unlock them.
I guess this is just the thing they do now. Shipping without MTX, and adding them in later. It's an easy way to avoid negative attention during launch. But I thought they'd at least be patient enough to wait until the holiday season passed.
Welp, time to not even bother with Beenox games for the first year or two. Can't be too certain they won't dump MTX into their games.
@SlyPlayr09 Yep, pure corporate shill here.
For those of us with functioning brains, we saw this coming miles away because they did the EXACT SAME THING with Black Ops 4. Next on the agenda is putting in Lootboxes. It's no longer free content (like Splatoon 2 which had ZERO GRIND), it's monetizing a game post-launch.
For those looking for a racing game with integrity, buy Team Sonic Racing.
Microtransactions may steer the gaming industry towards a CRASH if not controlled. Public opinion of gaming, microtransactions and mental health issues are bubbling away getting ready to explode. I say “Get MTs banned! Pay $2 to join my anti-MT team and receive a worthless digital thumbsup”.
Who needs a Fun Racer with Microtransactions on Switch if you can play Mario Kart 8 Deluxe instead. And if you're getting bored of Mario Kart maybe try out Team Sonic Racing, it's a nice Alternative.
Sod off with this whizz It's disgusting. Shame on Activision. Bunch of unscrupulous turds
*Went back and edited my original post. There is nothing child friendly about this practice so I figured colourful language mode was engaged.
Hate microtransactions, it ruins games and lives
Lol, we all knew it: A...holery incoming!
I'll stick to the free Wumpa coins, obviously!
It's like some third parties have gone from your favourite arcade with all the best coin-ops into a gambling den full of cherry machines. (I'm sure folk know what I mean - that depressing time when Pink Panthers were in the chippy instead of a videogame)
I feel like I am at that stage where I used to go into an 'amusements' in the vain hope of seeing if there was something to play and leaving when it was all one arm bandits with pictures of Noel Edmonds.
I don't go into 'amusements' any more. I sure as heck won't buy their games.
Amusements, Chance experiences etc etc. Holding your hand out after you already made a transaction. IT'S ETHICALLY IMMORAL AND UNSCRUPULOUS. Not to mention cynical and saps the enjoyment / fun out of a game. They try to call it anything but gambling or coercion to buy currency through grinding mechanisms. Both disgusting practices to subject a child to. They will grow up thinking it's normal. How irresponsible of this generation.
I dare say a few of you weren't even born to witness this change but as one of my fave games says "...time flows like a river...and history repeats."
Looking forward to to the next Jimquisition tearing into this.
Microtransactions by definition and syntax cannot alter a games mechanics because it doesn't make sense. Just another suit not knowing what he's on for.
Also, can we all please stop using the word 'mechanics' incorrectly. It's the science of how things move. Mario moves differently to Sonic with different levels of inertia and speed etc. The games have different mechanics. Sonic's levels are sequential, Mario World has a world map. This doesn't mean the mechanics of the levels are different (because that is nonsense). It means the mechanism (how something works) of level selection is different. (I will die on this rock, but it used to annoy me in the 2000's when folk started doing it lol) Seriously, everyone does it now! It's a really good word as a base for describing the actual gameplay...NOT what you can do in the game.
@SlyPlayr09 It's nice to have a comments section where people can actually have sensible discussions!
I have spent money myself on microtransactions for free to play mobile games because I felt the Developer deserved a bit of payment for the number of hours I had put in, but that was free to play. I think the reason this rankles so much is that these were added after the fact, which suggests that they hadn't made as much money from sales as they hoped so now they are trying to squeeze out as much as they can from people who have already shelled out for the game. Pretending that it is somehow pro-consumer in that it offers a choice to speed up unlockables is also particularly repugnant.
I have no issue with paying for DLC whatsoever but that is a one-off purchase, microtransactions are designed to constantly bleed you of money relentlessly over time.
Nope, as soon as you introduce the option to purchase in-game currency to "fast track" progress, you'll begin increasing the cost of in-game purchases to an unfair amount that requires too much of your time, or a bit of your money.
I was considering picking this up physical discounted down the line but now there's no way.
Knew this was too good to be true
No wonder everything is so GRINDY, they planned this from the start!!
And another Grand Prix already? Jeez, I'm still burnt out from the last one!
@Galarian_Lassie So this does bother me. While they are offering a lot of free content going forward (which is awesome), I really wish they hadn't lied about microtransactions.
If they had updated everyone before launch that this would be a thing, not effect gameplay and then not throttle coins in-game, I'd have no problem with it. It's optional and doesn't give players any gameplay advantage. And they make a little money. No big deal.
But to state up front that there wouldn't be any, period... and now this after people have already purchased the game and have experienced slow coin collecting. That's shady.
@Dethmunk Ya getting fed up of these "seasons" already.. I got into the 5% in the last one for that kart, but jeez, after an entire MONTH, I'm really burnt out on CTR.. And now they expect me to play the game for another month straight xD
The MT's are a right slap in the face, too.. They blatently didn't put them in at launch to avoid backlash and wait until people bought the game
@mist Actually they already surpassed EA's greed. Sadly it works though, these publishers make a lot of money off these mtx.
I don’t know how activision has gotten away relatively Scott free from criticism while EA has gotten blasted. Activision is just as bad if not worse. Yet another company I simply won’t buy games from due to their immoral way of fleecing the customer. EA, Activision and 2k are the pits
Nothing new. They did the same thing with Black Ops 4. It's really clever actually. Allows them to bypass the negative press they'd get at release while gaining that sweet microtransaction money when journalists are already covering the next games.
After all this is just testing the waters with a different approach. Many Games get a lot of hate and lost sales because of MT. But with this approach, Reviews and all won't focus on them and people won't avoid it. I expect that this will be a widely adopted practice over the time plus it will eventually maybe even negate the risk of bans in some countries when they add "surprise boxes" at a later date as kinda dlc with the tag "additional contend not rated" or something like that.
One of the few games this year that I kinda regret buying.
@Mr_Pepperami Blizzard started it with World of Warcraft. it showed the world how to milk a massively popular game (10 mil players at it's peak)
1. Buy game full price.
2. Charge a monthly fee to play it
3. Add an ingame store to sell polygons.
It was painfully obvious every huge AAA dev was chomping at the bit to replicate this level of revenue from a game. The only hurdle most suits had was they didn't have the crap of 'yeah but it's persistently online' to pull the wool over people's eyes. So they started taking content out of games and charging again for it.
Activision bought Blizzard and ran with it, forcing similar models across games. Blizzard came up with loot boxes for Overwatch I think as well. Oh yeah, remember the real money auction house? How Blizzard are revered is beyond me.
I'm glad I held off buying this, I've had enough of this nonsense in modern gaming and I'll happily just keep playing Mario Kart 8 instead
I'm cool with this as long as they don't drop the in-game Wumpa Coin rate significantly. even if they do, I'm not gonna boycott because 1. give me ONE example of video game boycotts ever working, and 2. this game is too good to resist!
And has anyone gotten their Champion kart yet? Mine still isn't unlocked even though I was in the 5%
I just want to be able to save my progress in cup mode so I can see if I won gold or not. This happens in every other racing game so wtf!
Ha. Crash once again proves to be trash.
I'm done with the game. I'll turn it on one last time to pick up the Grand Prix prize and won't touch it unless one of my friends wants to play it. The Pit Stop already was awful, the last character I wanted appeared only once during the whole month, but I didn't have enough coins to purchase it then. With the sheer amount of cosmetics in the rotation, I can see people being forced to spend coins on things they don't want in order to unclog the store. Not even playable Spyro in September is worth it.
@Preposterous I'll still continue playing it, hopefully they won't lower the amount of wumpa coins we get after a race, so it largely shouldn't be any different, just now with MT's
I'll never buy MT's though, never have, never will.. The people who DO buy micro transactions are the reason we are in this mess in first place.. Getting fed up of Triple A games adding in mobile-phone like micro transactions now
I'd have much rather they'd just make these GP's seasons, and sell a season pass than add micro-transactions to the game.
Nobody should be surprised, the coins were the groundwork for it and they just wanted to avoid poor reviews. Luckily the core game is solid and the only thing you can purchase are skins as far as I can gather.
@Doktor-Mandrake I don't have enough patience and there are other games to be played; I'm having so much more fun with MUA3 and its expansion pass deal is much more fair.
I played online only on the weekends when the coin multiplier was 10x, since frankly, CTR is not balanced around 8 players. Items really should have been tweaked in relation to the original game, but they're somehow worse. Masks and turbos in the first place, warp balls in the second place, missiles missing half of the time, bombs rolling randomly, so on and so forth.
Now that there's even more cosmetics to miss if I don't devote a good amount of time to the game and I know that Activision will incentivise buying coins with real money, all my enthusiasm has been drained.
@Preposterous Yeah the online MP isn't as balanced as something like MK8, I tend to stick with SP for crash
I can understand the lack of patience, I've been grinding the past month to make sure I got that champion kart, after 80 hours in CTR, I'm kind of burnt out on the game.. And now they expect me to grind for yet another whole month >.<
Im fine with DLC expansions not ruining the core gameplay costing money but advantage items for cash.. lol..
Why Activision why.
They couldnt resist bummer
If you don't like micro transactions, don't spend money on them. I was enjoying the game before this announcement and will continue to after. This has changed nothing for me. Don't get all the fuss.
It's only for cosmetic stuff also, no advantage gained by spending money.
Thank God "Garfield Kart Racing" is coming soon so I can steer away from this microtransactions laden game
I knew this was going to happen eventually. Very sad, but it's unfortunately Activision being Activision.
At least the core game was pretty solid + I got my dose of 90s childhood nostalgia. Clocked 35hrs into CTR with a mix of single player story, online play and local multiplayer with friends. So it satisfied me overall.
Got to say though, I have gone back to my old Gamecube over the last week and it's so refreshing not seeing any MT or "Live Service Mechanics"... Just pure games.
Wish they would use some of the money from the micro transactions to pay someone to fix the crappy online multiplayer:
No ranking system
No decent match making system / empty lobbies
Slow loading times
Tedious podium ceremony after each race.
Sod off, Activision. How dare you. Well, guess I know which PSX game I'll be getting from the PSN store today...
Well, to be fair, this will be an option for the players. They still can earn Wumpa coins true out the game. I just hope they do not increase the prices the Pit Stop. 2500 coins for one set of wheels is just too expensive.
"This option won’t change the game’s core mechanics" Bullsh*t. This is a part of the game’s core mechanics.
Could someone clarify the grand prix for me? Are these rewards locked to this month? Like if I don't get enough points during this grand prix, are the rewards gone for good?
Could've just gave us more coins per race, but then we couldn't try to gouge could we?
How much you wanna bet that they'll reduce the coins you earn per race?
We can never have nice things
Someone's getting greedy, it seems.
This is just stupid.
Just to remind everyone that when the next update comes out, you can unlock 5 characters, 3 character skins, 2 karts, and 1 course FOR FREE, let the Micro transactions to buy Wampa Coins are OPTIONAL TO BUY. Bunch of complainers, the lot of ya!
It's not a deal breaker to me, and the only reason Activision have done this is because they know people will use this method because they are two impatient to unlock them the free way. My advise; don't use this method.
I'm looking forward to trying the new course out. Can't wait to play as the Baby T-Rex!
@Nagi
Shame the Single Player content in MK8D is very vanilla. Grand Prix and Time Trials can easily become boring. CTR:NF has much better modes like the Time Relics being one, as you have to smash the crates to freeze the time, and getting all them takes 10 seconds off your time.
@SMW
The awards that you earn by getting Nitro Fuel during the Grand Prix (like Tawna, Motor-racer Crunch, etc.) will be available to purchase in the Pit Stop at a later date.
As for the Pit Stop GP Items (like Megumi, Isabella, Flag Stickers, Twilight Tyres etc.), these should still be available when it shows up.
The Championship Kart and the Theme Decals I presume can only be unlocked by being in the 5% during a GP.
Usually, microtransactions are a hot topic issue, but I noticed something peculiar about this whole thing that takes the wind from your breaths and make you back off on your argument of this for your sakes. Hear me out.
If I’m to summarize this in one sentence... You just crossed into Fortnite territory without even realizing.
Characters are nice and are the thing to go for, usually and even for me. But performance wise, WHAT do they even bring to the table? Look at the stats shown of each character according to their class in the character selection menu, any difference much? Very VERY little, if any, and none of them are game breaking if they do differ in the slightest. And a good chunk of us are still learning the karting mechanics here. Its a different beast to MK8. Karts are found to be the same as characters, but with no stats. So, all in all, you are arguing over SKINS which add NOTHING competitive to the game. Do you have any idea how much of this zealous stance is driving you into in this case at your own expense? There are similar things here that are said about kids in Fortnite and parent gamers have to step in and say no to the things that dont really add to the game. If the actual value of the things we want is arguably less than the evil of microtransactions, let them go. In this particular case, just grind for the characters like we usually do.
All things considered, I am very surprised to see the complainers practically in league with Fortnite players fighting for the things they want, even if the items they want are valued dirt cheap. The price for them? The time you put your nose to the grindstone.
I'm just going to skip this game then. Was on the fence before, but now I can just leave it without feeling like I'm missing anything important. Original PS1 version for me.
I was debating getting this, now I won't.
Thanks Activision for making it so easy to decide.
@RadioShadow The game is free? Or is all that stuff what you paid for?
The game will be turned into a grindfest and all other mechanics sacrificed to generate micros. That's what this results in and you are cheering it on.
One less game on my buy on sale list. Thanks Activision.
@Tsusasi I can tell this attempt of microtransactions this time around is a poor attempt even for Activision’s efforts and goals, because the actual value of the characters and kart parts are just the same as Fortnite skins. Nothing of competitive value. Not even worth the hate against microtransactions for.
@ATaco what? Microtransactions over content that offers no real competitive value, no serious difference? Cant wait to see Jim Sterling practically defend essentially Fortnite skins here.
This was obvious as shown by Modern Warfare Remastered (started off with no microtransactions and then added loot boxes when the remaining multiplayer maps were added).
Well, that takes the game off of my wanted list.
@StevenG @tech7 @Jammy01 @carlos82 @RupeeClock @spirit_flame @Franklin @BornInNorway81 Really? Y'all are choosing not to buy this game because of this? It's not like any of the content you purchase with Wumpa Coins will guarantee your victory; it's all cosmetic. CTR is still a fun kart racer, and it's shallow to decide whether you want to buy a game or not over silly crap like this. I'm not happy about the microtransactions, either, but they're optional, and are but a small blemish on an otherwise fantastic game. You're all robbing yourselves of a good time.
@KayFiOS Yes, I do not support microtransactions.
This is how capitalism works. I vote with my money.
It's not silly crap, that you think it is proves how little you understand the changes to gaming that are happening now and what will happen in the future.
I probably have less free time than you. I will never have a chance to play all the games I want so this is an easy way to reduce that list.
Thanks for lessening my desire to buy this game, Activision!
@KayFiOS yes and I'm more than happy not to buy this game and support such nonsense, there is no place for such a thing in games and I would much rather support developers who are trying to make their games the best they can be. Not locking content behind grinding to accommodate microtransactions, I'll stick with Mario Kart for my racing needs
@KayFiOS
Yes, the game is very intentionally desired around having you compete for high places and earn coins or other cosmetics.
The cosmetics you earn through continued play are an incentive to keep playing, it feel rewarding and is a good use of your time beyond perfecting your racing skills.
If they introduce microtransactions to outright purchase currency towards some of the cosmetics, which I believe may be limited availability via time-gating as to pressure the player to earn enough coins in time, this takes a lot of the enjoyment out of the game and is strong-arming the player.
Worse yet is that you are not directly purchasing the cosmetics, you have no right to them if your save data is lost.
Unless there's something in place like you're entitled to keeping a balance of a certain amount of Wumpa Coins if you start a new save file or something, it's a pretty abhorrent thing.
Even something like the badges from Nintendo Badge Arcade, they're yours to keep as they're tied to your system (although not your account as I recall, but the 3DS didn't handle digital rights well).
So spend years and years trying to unlock everything...or just hack up cash. And then we get babies to add to the mario kart rip trend...instead of N Brio, Nina, Koala Kong, or that crash bash monkey...sad
@KayFiOS
It's a point of principle.
The problem is not the optional microtransactions.
The problem is making the grinding so difficult that people decide to go for the optional microtransactions.
Because of course they are. Activision and their shoddy reasoning of "it's all so the player has more options". It's just like how it was with COD: Modern Warfare Remastered. Never played it, but I know they added microtransactions to a re-release of an older game. I've heard the remaster of CTR is good. It looks good, plays well, and serves as a nice update to the original. But damn, adding microtransactions to your cool remaster makes it that much worse. It's wholly unnecessary, and they say it's a "fast-track" also known as "our game is really grindy because we made it that way so just give us money instead of playing our game". I feel for the developers, I'd like to think that they didn't want this, I hope they didn't. Screw you, Activision.
Yeah, I'd totally buy into this...
As long as they don't use annoying popups to get users to buy anything it is fine with me. Let people waste their money on pointless cosmetics
This game is so Great. I don't give damn about microtransactions. Activision is Activision...I will NEVER buy wampas coins with my money IRL. Kiss everybody !!!
@Galarian_Lassie Lying. Through. Their. Teeth.
If you want to have a free-to-play economy, make the game free in the first place.
@Doktor-Mandrake They don't expect you to grind. They expect you to pay.
I absolutely am serious. This is not at all a “small blemish”, it is nothing less than a middle finger in disguise and a grand display of disrespect towards the audience they are targeting. I do not condone these practises, the same way as I do not condone anyone flinging faeces in my direction. I vote with my money.
@KayFiOS
“Really? Y'all are choosing not to buy this game because of this? It's not like any of the content you purchase with Wumpa Coins will guarantee your victory; it's all cosmetic. CTR is still a fun kart racer, and it's shallow to decide whether you want to buy a game or not over silly crap like this. I'm not happy about the microtransactions, either, but they're optional, and are but a small blemish on an otherwise fantastic game. You're all robbing yourselves of a good time.”
@SlyPlayr09 I am not upset by this. I have a job and don't have enough free time(or energy)to play(most of the time). So something like this is a bit of godsend for me. It won't stop me from participating in races to grind for Nitro in the Grand Prix(upcoming and future ones).
@CartoonDan who said I was gonna pay? some people might wanna buy micro transactions and ruin the gaming industry, not me though.
Activision. Get Fu....
The cked will cost extra
@blockfight well as long as it doesn't bother you then that's fine. It doesn't matter if there are people in the world with spending compulsion that can't control it. It doesn't matter if kids at school are getting bullied for not having the latest stuff like the "rich kids"
@spirit_flame Really? You're not gonna get the game just because of THIS? Just don't buy the wumpa coins with real money then, not a problem
@N1ntendodo
Nope, he didn't defend them. I don't think we watch the same person...
@Jevarel if kids are getting bullied about not having the latest stuff, chances are they don't have a games console to begin with. "Wumpa coins" is the least of their worries.
By that same arguement, Nintendo shouldn't make consoles because some kids won't be able to afford them. Let's all suffer to spare some kids feelings.
finally, I thought they hate money, always wanted to buy in-game stuff with my hardearned money
"This option won’t change the game’s core mechanics"
Of course not, cos this was the plan all along. It’s what they do. Release the game without them to ensure not part of the reviews and get the game into people’s home and then BAM! Infiltration complete, deploy money bait.
@StevenG
I was refering to the update that was talked about in the article. Of course you have to pay for the base game (physical or download). What I meant was during the next update, we have the chance to unlock extra stuff for free (or give Activision money).
@Aaronnnnn
Exactly. No one is pointing a gun to your head to give Activision money.
@blockfight The fuss is because people don't want things to get worse and the 'shrug your shoulders' - 'it doesn't affect me' attitude sends a message to publishers like EA and Activation that ruining games and exploiting people with addictive personality traits is acceptable.
@RadioShadow So pay for the game and pay extra for more stuff.
No thanks, I will skip this scam.
@Old-Red you may as well ban every mobile game so. Full of microtransactions. If people have addictive personalities they need to get help. The world is full of alcoholics. Thank God we've banned all the pubs/bars. Oh wait.....
@ATaco Over what was the real value of the items in question? Yeah, he is defending over competitively useless skins which, as a Fortnite player myself,, are still way faster to obtain the currency over a casual run of their Battle Pass from beginning to end of the season to get similar skins.
Ohmygoodgracious
@StevenG You don't have to pay extra. I've unlocked plenty of stuff and not paid a cent extra. Its optional.
Am glad its optional because if it wasn't I would not be happy.
Let me put this as clear yet concerning as possible.
Pay to win players have the money to pay for microtransactions for whatever they want and all they have to do is sit down and watch. A lot of money. Easy to win. Easy to do. So easy to get what you want. REAL easy. Avoids the time and challenge.
Now, zealous complainers of microtransactions have plenty of words in their mouths to say like the wallets of pay to win players and all they have to do is sit and watch. Easy to win. Easy to do. So easy to get what you want. REAL easy. Avoids the time and challenge.
It has become apparent to me recently that you folks are IRONICALLY becoming the very thing you dislike. You may think you got a good grip against microtransactions, but no, microtransactions got YOU. Ethics talks and stuff like that are only effective if they are tried and tested THOROUGHLY, not through something that are practically common resources. The world of video games and its glory are not built on common resources through money and affordably cheap words in quality and quantity, but rather through the wonders, innovations, and accomplishments of challenges. That is the gaming world I enjoy and I really hate to see players in this state who are slowly becoming entangled in an ever losing battle, when both sides now see there’s a bump in the road, like a speed bump at a parking lot, and they just stop and not go over it, because they want the experience to be easier and faster like the vehicles they drive on to get to their destination. Nobody wins in this, I realize.
Now, Activision, when compared to Fortnite Battle Pass, are clearly not doing enough if getting money is their supposed purpose. This is easily avoidable if you do not want to pay, especially if they serve no competitive value or can be easily obtained through reasonable grinding, which I can see from my experience in comparison to Fortnite, it is reasonable.
Very recently, there was a Fortnite article, even shown here in NL, about the $3 million winning 16 year old World Cup Champion. People came over to say good things about it, despite their dislikes about Fortnite. How amazing Fortnite has gone far. Despite the barrage of discontent and despising, it has grown to a respectable force in the gaming world. Everyone involved rose to the challenge and out came winners, from the developers to the winning high school students in the World Cup. They put their noses to the grindstone and saw the world fleshed out before their eyes. It is those kind of people we respect.
The world is ever changing and its those who take the challenges who then become winners. A world without microtransactions? I don’t mind. But these days, maybe complainers ought be transported to the 80s and 90s where difficult challenges in small packages are in place of microtransactions and lets see if they can afford by their words from their wallets.
I will take the challenge.
And I won’t stop doing that.
@blockfight That's not the issue I have. I am not interested in games that use these methods of revenue generation. I have enough money that I would much prefer to pay $100 at one time, than tolerate this from an industry that is supposed to be about fun.
@StevenG that's fair enough. Vote with your wallet. Personally im not gonna let something like micro transactions get in the way of me enjoying a really good game. But each to their own.
@StevenG Step up your words. And reported
@blockfight Yeah, but drinks aren't watered down for the rest of us and gated off so bars can make more money off the addicts.
@Old-Red i don't feel like CTR is in any way watered down. I've unlocked loads by just playing the thing. If people want to speed up the process, they now have the choice. Plus no advantage is gained, it's all cosmetic.
But i can see it's not the popular opinion to have on here. Ive made my point. And i can see your point too.
@N1ntendodo
This post was written so oddly that I can't for the life of me understand the point you are trying to make.
To me, the big problem is that Activision KNOWS people hate microtransactions. So, like slippery little snakes they slide them in after the fact, once the game has been out for a while. This way you can't vote with your wallet. You already bought the game. If you don't support microtransactions, well they just suckered you into buying a game that does have them now. They take away that right of yours by not letting people know ahead of time that they plan to add microtransactions.
And I keep seeing comparisons to Fortnite? Last time I checked Fortnite was a free game...you didn't need to pay an entry fee first...
Ah, classic Activision.
@N1ntendodo Could you repeat that in English?
For people who live in the Pacific & East coast the Grand Prix starts 5:00 pm(PDT) & 8:00 pm(EDT)on August 1st respectively. I realized this when preparing for the Nitro Tour Grand Prix and discovered that it started on July 2nd at 8:00 pm.
@Galarian_Lassie The fact that Activision had the complete audacity to lie about micro-transactions is just disappointing on so many levels.
@KayFiOS yup. It was shady to announce that there would be none, then pull this crap. If they were honest up front, that would be different. I have a stack of shame a mile high. I already don't need another game. They made it easy to say no.
@StevenG @RupeeClock @carlos82 @Tsusasi Well, I guess I have my answer then. Maybe it's because I already have the game that all I can do is not give Activision any more money, and it baffles me that other people--people who claim to have been interested in the game yet somehow didn't pre-order or buy it a month after release--aren't thinking with this logic. That said, I can see how I would've been deterred from buying this game had I prior knowledge of what the finished product would become. I was excited to 100% complete this game, like I do with other kart racers. The drip-feed of Wumpa Coins through normal play essentially killed that excitement, and microtransactions to make it easier is a practice I refuse to support as someone who enjoys a challenge when it comes to completing games. (Challenge ≠ an endless slog of coin grinding, btw. That crap is what kept me from ever completing Diddy Kong Racing DS without an Action Replay)
I still think it's a good game to play with others, but my motivation to do any time trials, or play it on my own at all has been utterly shattered. I'll just complete the PS1 game, since I bought it on PS3, but never really touched it.
@BornInNorway81 Was it really friggin' necessary to copy-paste my post? I know what I said; up until now, it's all I've said on this article.
@KayFiOS I would attempt a return with whoever the merchant was.
I was interested in it, but not so excited that I picked it up yet.
@Liam_Doolan
Any word on when these wumpa coin bundles are coming to the Switch? They were supposed to be implemented with the Back N Time grand prix update, and they didn't roll out. PS4 got them august 8-sh. But things seem strangely silent regarding the Switch rollout. Do you have any new insight for when this will come to the Switch, if at all?
@Woomy_NNYes Sorry for the delayed reply. I'm not sure what is happening with the Switch version of the game.
I had a look around in my own copy and on the eShop, and there is no sign of Wumpa Coin Bundles. If you see or hear anything, tag me and I can follow this up in a separate article.
I might even reach out to Beenox and Activision to see if they have anything to say about it.
I didn't see them either, thank goodness!!
Ah, they're they are.
Mister @Liam_Doolan, wumpa coins are now available for purchase on CTR's eshop page here in the US.
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