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r/paydaytheheist•
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Explain to me what the fuss is about.[Honest question]

I have played CS:GO without opening cases and are pretty fine with there being micro-transactions and cosmetics for those who like that stuff. I have howevr made money from selling my boxes in CS:GO, paid for the game many times over. I'm pretty happy with that while I play with weapon skins. Can someone explain to me what is so terrible with this market for Payday, I must surely be missing something since I have never seen this much negativity in here before while personally I'm just thinking this might actually give me back some of the money I have spent on all the DLC's.

Posted Oct 15, 2015, 11:16 PM UTC

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Knife615•

The skins give stat boosts, the game equires you to pay for the base game, then pay for dlc, and now pay for micro-transactions.

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KingLunaInfamous V•

Yet no one is forcing anybody to pay a single cent for extra content. And the stat boosts are so minor on the mods that come with some skins that it's nothing game breaking.

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MenolithJust Like Sputnik, it Crashed and Burned•

Yeah, that should be noted. I'm not happy with the situation but as far as I can see the actual difference the skins make (right now) is marginal.

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NarkahUdash[Lords of Annihilus]•

What should REALLY be noted is how their word was given that there would be NO - I repeat, NO microtransactions. It's a complete breach of consumer trust.

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Kingfury4Det är avlöningsdag fellas !•

[Hey guys! Thank for grinding out all those really difficult challenges to earn you some new content. Now, just to fork over some cash!] (http://i.imgur.com/UAYTFq2.png)

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CaptainRTardI am not this level•

lets say we have a man named john and a man named jim who play payday 2 everyday together. with is update jim who is rich as fuck can buy the best skins making his guns alot better than johns, sadly john doesn't have much money and is now not as good as jim based on how much money he has and not skill or weapon mods.

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KingLunaInfamous V•

Does it really matter in a co-op game if one guy has a better gun than the other? Since payday is really all about killing AI cops and doing heists together i don't really see why one would be upset about it. Besides the mods currently that i have seen do not really cause any gamebreaking effects.

And i earned 9€ on a cloaker skin gruber kurz on marketplace so i am happy :)

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Roxxar123•

Let's rewind a little. In an interview/podcast/whatever, Overkill has specifically stated that they weren't gonna do microtransactions like this. Now let's fastforward a year or two.

PAYDAY 2 celebrates its 2nd anniversary via Crimefest.

Crimefest is claimed to be free and available to all players.

Players burn their asses off farming for every single reward and achievement made by Overkill. They succeed.

Crimefest begins.

Absolute first and only Crimefest reward insofar is gun skins, crates (safes), and keys (drills). What the fuck?

Drills are bought with REAL MONEY and not:

free and available to all players.

To top it off, those safes only have gun skins. Okay that's somewhat relateable to CS:GO and TF2, right? A handful (if not all) gun skins provide actual in-game status bonuses and boosts.

The fact that there's stuff to sell and gain some money from doesn't matter. Overkill clearly went against their previous claims from that first interview and they went against their statement during the Crimefest that everything will be free.

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CaptainRTardI am not this level•

The skins change stats making it pay to win even if the stat changes are small its still a bad thing.

We got told this update would be free but we just got given the free right to buy keys to open the safes

Overkill in 2013 said they would never make any microtransactions and this is a microtransaction.

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Regal_ElkstoneWhy don't the FBI call in the handsome Manny Pardo•

Honest answer, just look at the subreddit. It's been the same few posts doing the rounds for the last few hours you can piece it together

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