The Plague of Microtransactions

Micro-transactions are the next new thing in the quest for video game companies to suck as much money as they can out of us. Sometimes these micro-transactions are simple and meaningless, gun camouflage in Call of Duty, costume packs to change character appearances in Uncharted, or tokens to perform fatalities easier in Mortal Kombat X. The problem arises when game companies try to sell you things that should have already been included in the game. Capcom became infamous for this when they started selling on-disc DLC, content that was available at a game's launch but locked away from use. Selling consumers content that they should have in the first place? Unacceptable! More recently, Mortal Kombat X has Goro, a popular character already in the disc's data that you have to pay for! Companies might think that they can squeeze our wallets dry, but eventually people will get tired of it and simply stop buying games. If that happens, the gaming industry will crash again and it might not fully recover from it.