One Red Dead Redemption 2 rube who decided to spend real world money on the game’s “gold bars” to purchase an item he wanted is claiming that Rockstar is scamming people out of their money by not even letting players know the item is unpurchasable for them when they offer the chance.
Realizing he was only a few gold short of getting a saddle he really wanted, the player caved and decided to purchase gold with his real world money – the game provides “buy now” prompt that leads the player directly to the store should they have insufficient gold to purchase an item.
Upon returning from the store however, the option to purchase the item with his newly acquired gold is grayed out and not usable – a video depicting the issue:
Another video recreating the issue and apparently confirming it is not a bug:
Since even P2W items have level requirements in RDR Online, the primary cause is suspected to be the player not having grinded enough XP for the privilege of paying for an item which might otherwise take hundreds of hours to earn, but without any way to check this before purchasing and having a casual rube’s blind desire to click on a shiny buy now button, Rockstar’s UI might well be regarded as deceptive if not exploitative.
This is why microtransactions SHOULD be ILLEGAL in ANY PAID GAMES.
Just because something is reprehensible (most specifically when it’s as minor as adding microtransactions) doesn’t mean you should waste resources from the biggest parasite on the land to police private products “in defense of the retards”. Why should people that don’t even play the game have to pay to protect literal drooling apes such as the guy that supposedly got “scammed”?
Seriously? I believe even a kid can answer you. This is not “if you need” case, it’s for when you need. My house is not on fire, so why pay taxes? I’m not being mugged, so why pay taxes? I’m not sick, so why pay for healthcare?
You may not have a problem with addictions, but someone in your family may have, but I guess you can always blame someone else.
I don’t give a s♥♥t about your family, by your fucked up logic everybody else (except the mega rich) must pay due to a single person’s negligence, mishap or stupidity, nice charity at gunpoint. Stop falling for the scam of feeding more money, giving more power, and allowing more bureaucracy to spurt on the giant tumor of the country that is the government.
Government parasites have no competition, and thus do every single fucking thing the least cost-effective and efficient way possible. They have the monopoly of violence and yet they don’t even protect the borders of nations, because these fat rats signed off sovereignty of countries when they abide by “international law”.
They don’t produce anything, they are literal parasites that feed sucking from the taxpayer’s teat. It’s bad enough they are corrupt and play favorites with giant companies, but you have these megacompanies begging for this literal mafia to control more of your everyday life and how you decide to spend your hard earned cash.
Sounds like someone else is paying for the bills. You seem to be a person who has given up on people so why bother spouting your crap? It requires an apathetic community to absolve corruption that on a scale, is blatant and normal in every corner of the country. You know, like you just not as loud and self-righteously wanking to themselves for being “woke”.
Disregard my post, I thought I wasn’t talking to welfare niggers
I haven’t seen this impressive mental gymnastics since I read some feminist blog on rapist immigrants. How ’bout you crawl back under you rock.
have fun not getting any updates then
What do you mean by not getting updates? Most if not all the triple A games have a lot of updates near the start of when they are out which are mostly bug fixes. Also, since the introduction of microtransactions, publisher and developers are more interested in how to milk more money from their customers than spend time putting actual content update that does not contain microtransaction.
Minor self correction: should be involve, not contain microtransaction.
I will gladly go back to paying for new expansion packs every year or so to support developers than pay a cent for any of these microtransaction bullshit.
Remember when games actually had to be complete before they were sold?
Yeah, me neither. But I remember the video game crash of ’83.
Fucktard, after Nintendo collected the remaining shards from the crash this problem was solved, albeit some fuckers still didnt properly test their games.
Erm no. If we dont have capitalism then we all devolve into communist animals. no thx rofl
mtx is better then being a pinky…
Sorry mate. I already partook in Based Capitalism when I spent $60 for the game. I should *not* have to worry about or experience said game trying to get even MORE of my money than it deserves (not a penny more than the initial $60), especially when people don’t get what they legit tried to pay for.
Rockstar deserves the death of their business for this.
This is why I only ever pay for sex.
what I don’t get is that it says clearly on 1st screenshot that it requires lvl 91.
the Buy Now option is for the gold, he could buy that with real cash whatever level he is,
All the game did was place the gold buy now over the actual buy option as he didn’t have the money (or the level) for the saddle, he then purchased the gold, yet still didn’t meet the requirements to get the saddle.
This is plain stupidity on behalf of the player and then he is trying to blame rockstar for his idiocy.
You’re exactly right actually. He didn’t meet the gold requirements so the game showed him how much he needed. Then when he did meet the requirements the game no longer needed to show how much he needed. But the item was still locked because he didn’t meet the level requirement.
Maybe the game should have shown him first the level requirement instead of the gimme moneyz button.
Zero sympathy for these people. You know full damn well that these things aren’t worth the money they cost, yet you spend anyway because you are a total loser.
Someone spends their disposable income on something they want and you s♥♥t on them because you don’t agree with their decisions.
Imagine being this much of a self-important faggot.
The issue is the helmet wearing drooler in question apparently didn’t read the level requirements or something like that
A fool and their money are soon parted. Would you like to join the fools or do you just like watching them get screwed?
Yeah people ripe what they sow, keep buying their s♥♥t and games soon will have even more of them.
That’s what you get for buying this s♥♥t.