If this feature is unneeded, why is it then available for paying users?

Disturbing? Yes. Surprising? No, sadly. You have weeks or months of "this thing doesn't look good, the beta sucked, it's just the same as before etc." Then millions of people buy it anyway.

You can create your character, don't have to used the one from the beta

Why the fuck would that be understandable lmao

Characters should have some level of permanence to them. If there's no consequence to rerolling stats, then you're not playing a "character", as much as you're equipping a stat loadout. Limiting spec rolls is pretty standard.

Wow this is one of the most pathetic comments I have ever seen. "If you haven't figured out how to enjoy the game in two attempts, get fucked buddy! That's your fault for attempting to explore avenues if enjoyment! You need to do it my way, or face the consequences of payment!" I don't know how we got to not just complacency in these predatory practices, but outright defending them too. Pretty soon you'll be asking the company to directly shit in your mouth rather than present it on a plate.

Which teaches us that better network connectivity and convenient distribution platforms are not necessarily good. When we would dream of them in 2005, we would dream of having that industry and quality and economic processes, but with an option of sky cool connectivity and ability to buy and install a game with a click. Except there's no mechanism where more is indefinitely better or less is indefinitely better.

Yeah that is NOT what im fucking saying. Thank you for putting words in my mouth and attacking me over it

Limiting them yes, paywalling them though?

During the betas at least, it was mentioned in at least one of the interview/preview videos that you could adjust your character whenever before release but after release it would cost money. Not sure how accessible the information was but it wasn't a total secret.

You can literally do this without paywalling, wtf man

They did the same thing with MH World too, and that's one of my favorite games of all time. Capcom shouldn't charge for things like appearance changes, but even so, they create games with huge amounts of value for the price tag. And most of that came from years of free post release added content. A feature-complete game with cosmetic bonuses available as paid dlc is not a problem. Failing to achieve that would be the reason to be concerned over microtransactions. I understand why microtransactions are unpopular, but they can be done well and without them existing, many great games would either not exist or have to be much smaller. Also, for this specifically, there is a nexus mod that lets you change your appearance for free. There will very likely be a similar workaround with the new game if you have the pc version.

I bought it the night before it released so I could download it and have it ready to play. At that point, I had played hours of the betas, had seen interviews with the developers, and had read various reviews that were overall very favorable. And just from playing it one day I'm very happy with my purchase. I understand people disagreeing with it being a worthwhile purchase but calling it "shameful", "disgusting", or "disturbing" is actually really disappointing for me to see. It's just buying a video game when it releases. You can have a complaint about a product without being so judgemental about people who find it valuable enough to buy even with its faults. Let people enjoy things.

Yup, they're different people. The people complaining likely aren't buying it, and the people buying it are likely ignoring the complaining threads.

I'm fine with things like expansions costing real money. I'm not fine with things like cosmetics and upgrades costing real money. If they want to sell expansions in the game, I'm cool with that. I draw the line at mixing in-game currency w/ real currency. In-game currency is a mechanic to manage progression and customizations. Real currency is for buying more content.

I don't know about you, but I've been pretty successful at it. I don't buy predatory games, and I _do_ buy non-predatory games. There are tons of non-predatory games, so I have a fantastic selection. Some people will buy these games regardless, in fact many will. It doesn't mean you have to.

I think it makes sense in a multiplayer context, where you want to encourage more "organic" builds instead of people chasing the meta. I don't think they should paywall them though, just ban it and force people to start over, or have it be limited (i.e. lose a level to be able to move half of the stats over), so you're punishing with a bit of time instead of a completely restart. Paying for any form of reroll is stupid though. Either allow it or don't, and account for it in mechanics so you reward the behavior you're going for.

Wow, that's quite the 180.

Systemic problems aren't about you.

Sure, and I can't control systemic problems. I _can_ control my individual purchasing choices, and my point is that _you can too_. And what do we call large scale individual choice that results in systemic change? A systemic solution! Buy good games and avoid bad games. That's the most effective thing you can do to combat predatory practices. Maybe it won't solve the problem for _everyone_, but it'll solve the problem for _you_.