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  • I don’t understand wtf is going on with the RT score.

    10% Critics, 99% Verified Audience

    99 audience score? Surely, it’s bots, right?

    So you look at “All Audience” and you see 1/5 pretty much the whole way down:

    Then Verified Audience… and it’s 5/5 the whole way down?

    These are (supposedly) verified ticket purchase reviews/accounts. Did they seriously just buy up a bunch of tickets just pay for high reviews?


  • The Horse Armor is definitely an early form of microtransations, but it’s not the first type. A lot of people think of it as the first “paid for dlc”, but that’s not quite right either. Because it didn’t really add any new content, it just altered existing content. It was the first kind of paid “mod” of game. But even that’s not quite accurate either. Because “Mods” include things that enhance gameplay, add/improve features, etc. What the horse armor really showed is that people would spend money for different “Skins”. Horse armor was the first paid for “skin”. Character skins, weapon skins, gun charms, etc etc.

    But even given all that, the horse armor still isn’t the start of microtransactions in games.

    Crystals/EnergyShards/Feathers/etcetcetc. The price wall/gatekeep bullshit meant to restrict play unless you paid. Those are the first real “microtranscations”. And for that you can thank casual games that predate the SmartPhone era. Like FarmVille.