I’ve never been against most micro transactions. At least runscape have monthly costs so helping to cover them is ok.

The thing I take issue with in all games is they aren’t ‘micro’ to begin with. 99p for some gimmicky furniture/clothing and i’d probably buy it to support the game. The moment you start charging £5+, thats when i’m out. And sadly thats the problem with all games, greed! No amount of profit is ever enough and you’d think more people would vote with there wallet but here we are! 🤦‍♂️🙄

Its why i quit eve online, think i still have a pilot with like a trillion isk but they got greedy and went down the micro transaction route on top of nerfing all that was unique about the because it annoyed a few rich vocal players. Should probably login and take an expensive ship into lowsec for shits n giggles! 😂

When I was a kid playing Old School RuneScape before it was “Old School” RuneScape, the only thing you could purchase was the $5/month membership. That’s how most MMOs like that worked back then; you can play ~%30 of the game for free, forever, no strings attached, and the entire rest of the game was behind that subscription. No second barriers, no seasonal passes, and certainly no God damn microtransactions. You would be banned if you were caught buying things in-game with IRL funds from 3rd parties. How did you decorate and improve your Player Owned Home? You fucking increased your Construction skill and made your own damn furniture. $12 for a home cosmetic item is already absurd, I think the article might be a little misleading in saying they’re “one time use decorations” (they seem to work more like loot boxes with a permanent reward, so your decorations aren’t one time use, but the item that gives it to you is) but they still should never have existed in the first place.

The one time macro transaction. Like buying a game?