The most ridiculous in-game purchases, sold in the best way

If there is one thing that plagues our entire industry, irrespective of your preferred platform, it’s in-game purchases.

Those additional costs that developers put into an already pricey game, and all for the sake of “enhancing” your gaming experience.

If you ask me, it’s the simplest way to increase the profit margins.

I mean, how much profit is actually accrued from in-game purchase? I suppose it depends on the game.

And more interestingly, how much work and cost actually goes into this feature anyway, that they need to make sure they make money off it?

If you hate additional in-game purchases as much as I do, then this is the list for you.

Feel free to rant and rave at the bane of the gaming industry; think of it as catharsis.

Level boost

After spending a premium R700 on a game, why would you want to invest in the experience it offers when you can “literally invest” in its experience, by throwing money at it.

The level boost, a premium purchase that will allow your character to bypass grinding entirely, lets you focus on rest of the game, gratification and sense of reward be damned.

But what you’re essentially saying is that the game you just paid R700 for is only worth around half that.

Resources

When the hard work of gathering resources becomes tedious, why not just spend your hard-earned dough to make virtual hard work easier?

Having purchased a bundle of resources, you can now purchase some armour that will give you a decided advantage over the environment and opponent you may face, for a little while anyway.

We would suggest investing those resources into whatever allows you to gather resources quicker; and then never pay for another resource again.

Additional Equipment

If you’re tired of looking the same as everyone else, then you need a new armour skin or a brand new armour design to craft yourself.

The additional armour packs you can purchase will give your character the much-needed makeover.

And let’s not worry about the stats of your new get-up; we’re going for a more fashionable look than actually surviving in the wilderness.

Don’t you find it weird that in games with in-game purchases, the best looking armour is never the toughest armour.

That’s two sales rather than one for developers; they’re so smart.

Just keep in mind that you’ll probably need to be the right level to make use of your newly purchased item, so get to purchasing a level booster already.

Currency

We know daily life can be busy, and not everyone has the time to actually play the game to gather currency; that’s why you can now buy the currency and save time. Time is money, after all.

Sure, the currency you’re trading for is nowhere near as strong as your real world currency, but it’s the purchase of time that matters, right?

You might argue that it would take a huge time investment to obtain what you can so easily purchase, but consider that the time to earn those items is purposefully made longer than is necessary; developers need to justify your purchase.

Emotes and customizations

It’s the festive season, so why not get your character or your new shotgun a festive skin to help celebrate the holiday season?

With the festive pack, you can apply a reindeer skin to your AK47, so that it looks like you are running around with Rudolph in hand, as he shoots bullets out of his cute red nose.

If dressing up as Santa is your thing, then the Christmas character skin pack is perfect for you. You can go into a multiplayer match like a bad-ass with your Christmas hat and beard.

For those who want, you can purchase it together as one premium pack, or separately as a gun and skin pack.

The festive fun does not end there, however. You can also dance around like Santa and his elves with the Christmas emotes.

These premium purchases will grant your character one cute holiday cheer, be it sipping on a glass of eggnog or the ‘surprise of unwrapping a Christmas gift’ emote. You will surely find an emote that suites you and your character.

That was sarcasm, by the way.

What in-game purchases do you hate the most? Let us know in the comments and forum.

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