Capcom Has Added Microtransactions To Resident Evil 4 After Release

Yeah they're fine. Optional, inexpensive and they help support the game? No problems there

Holding them out briefly to manipulate review scores is a little scummy.

@A01 I'm surprised to hear they didn't 😮

They don't affect the game in any way at all so it's ok but anyone who buys theyse is making the problem with these in the gaming industry worse and dlc as well its a right con

My thoughts are (and as someone who doesn’t have the game or box) would this not legally be detailed on the retail box?

These should just be optional accessibility features in a story mode, but sure, more MTs. Yay 🙄

Well hey, glad I didn't buy it yet. Will be a bargain bin purchase for sure. MTX in full prices games = nope. Regardless of how inconsequential they are.

The funny thing is on PC, you can add all the outfits in the world, for free.

i'll buy the 9mm if its unlimited ammo

Cosmetic Microtransactions and Cheats/Fast Progression in a single player game I’m totally fine with as long as they’re optional, AND more over, they don’t build the game around that. Do not for the love of God, extend gameplay making it a huge grind to level up gear just to sell the microtransactions.

That said, go for it otherwise. I get it, I’m a 40 year old dad who barely has time to game anymore, and while I personally love grinding for stuff like gear on Diablo 2, Shiny hunting in Pokémon, or maxing out characters in Octopath, I fully understand not having the time to do such things and wishing there were an option available to speed up the process.

Going forward in gaming, I’d be totally fine if all single player games had a $5 dlc you could buy that had a cheat menu that sped things like Xp grinding up. I’ve even bought a couple of such things for 3DS JRPGs. And I’ve used the FE maps that are specially designed for power leveling / gearing / money grinding - this right here would be my personal preferred cheat method. A pack that contains a way to grind but at 3-5x normal rate.

Edit - I should also clarify, due to the article (and not having the game myself yet) I’m unsure if this is for the main game or merc mode. If this is for the main game, then there’s no need to get panties in a bunch if someone wants to gear up faster to progress through the game. Or doesn’t want to play Pro mode just to get whatever unlock.

Now if this is merc mode related, which I’m sure has online components like leaderboards, then nope. Def not for anything that gives advantage to those willing to spend money.

And also I get the release was a bit shady instead of having the options from the start. Again, they shoulda just had a dlc map of the village or something that dropped treasure at a much higher rate allowing you to upgrade weapons faster, like FE does with map packs.

They said Crash Team Racing did why can't we?

It's a bit scummy for sure but the game is way too good to get too hang up on this.

The way developers are doing it lately where they wait till after reviews are out, that part I’m not a fan of. I can’t say I’m surprised they added them to the game. They had them in past RE titles. Just wish it was a bit more forward with it from the start.

All you people who think this is fine I'm so happy for you that you don't suffer from any compulsive disorder. You of course are not the target audience anyway. The poor unfortunates I just mentioned are and no they're not all whales with more money than sense, some of them are spending the last of their food money to feed their compulsive disorder just to stave off feeling hopelessly depressed just for a few seconds of temporary pleasure before reality sets in. Oh but as long as you're alright.... Jack, then there's absolutely nothing to complain about here whatsoever.

@Jevarel Really not sure how "compulsive disorder" factors in this case, we're not talking about gacha or anything, there's literally nothing to "collect" with these tickets.

@Kaloudz so you think if someone who avoids microtransaction games buys and invests time into this game and is then tricked because they are added after the initial release it's their own fault and they should go see a doctor about this.
Also you said yourself microtransactions are unnecessary so if that's true why are they there?
Oh and microtransactions money does not go to the game developers. They have already been paid for their part in making the game. They are not going to receive anything extra from this.

This is such a nothing burger. Do you enjoy listening to Rihanna ? Yeah me neither so I don't buy the songs lol

@Somebody
Reviews shouldn't be based on micro-transactions anyway.

@old-dad let's hope iTunes don't replace the last album you bought with the same music but now each track also features Rihanna 'after' your purchase.
@srefan771 the microtransactions do affect the gameplay though. In order for someone to 100% complete the game and acquire every item instead of making that goal fun then purposely make it a grind so they can 'sell you the solution'

@NorthwestEagle are you seriously saying people with a compulsive disorder should not be allowed to play video games. If anything considering all the problems these people have to deal with video games should be a safe haven away from that world

@Kaloudz I see now what you mean. The game is actually doing a kind of service by identifying individuals who need to seek help without doing any real harm. I guess it's a bit like that inspirational episode of Pokémon that helped people discover if they suffered from epilepsy or not using the completely harmless method of inducing an epileptic fit.

@Jevarel so you are implying that capcom will replace the game with another game ? Wow smh

@kaloudz and that is the crux of the argument. Thats exactly what the companies are doing. Targeting the most vulnerable. I've even seen a press conference where some executive is outlining those exact tactics to a board of investors.

@old-dad no I am implying that capcom added something to the game that we didn't want or ask for.

@InterceptorAlpha on PC you can also mod in as many of these tickets as you like, so you'd have to be especially stupid to buy them 😂

Capcom have being doing this since at least the RE2 Remake, which allowed you to unlock all the weapons and Devil May Cry as well, so I'm not sure how it's suddenly news when they do it for like the 5th game in a row.

The strangest part about these is that they're actually pretty pointless to buy, on an average playthrough you can easily get a couple of them in game and in fact you don't even need them at all, as the upgrades are available without them anyway.

People just seemingly want to be upset about things these days

Holding them back until after it's been released, and thoroughly reviewed, is a scummy move. There's no way they released the game, and then suddenly had the idea to add them.

I hope that reviewers will do the same and update their reviews and scores accordingly.

It was scummy when crash team racing was ruined with MT and no one called it out. It became a horrible scummy grind fest.

If you add something like this AFTER reviews are in and after you’ve sold 4 million copies, you are a scumbag. All the “I’ve no problem with this.” Comments…. Haha. Honestly.

@carlos82 it resident evil 2 it cost like 5 quid didn’t it for the dlc? Ten max. This isn’t dlc it MT and it’s 80 plus quid to unlock it all. Not quite the same

@stefan771 yes they should. Reviews should cover every aspect. People need informing what they are getting into to. Especially if the reviewers get content unlocked making it more enjoyable.

@Wheatly yet in games like battlefront 2 and avengers it’s all the reviews were about…. Both games no doubt you think “suck”

@Stocksy it was £4 for the unlock key (the deluxe edition stuff is broadly similar), thats said even if you were dumb enough to buy every ticket then that's a little over £45 and someone would have to be very stupid to do so. As realistically nobody is going to use all 22 guns and even then you have to actually play the game to both unlock them and upgrade their other stats as most will still be useless. By which point you'd have unlocked several of these tickets in game anyway.

So there is a difference yes and that's mainly that the dlc in RE4 is significantly less of value than that in RE2. I've come across a lot of games where microtransactions or dlc have degraded the experience of the player even when not engaging with them but this game isn't one of them

I hate microtransactions. I prefer to unlock everything in game than buy. If the only way to get that item is to buy with real money, then that is not good.

@Wheatly Then why did they wait until the reviews were out to release them? It should be at least mentioned in any decent review at least, and depending on the reviewer it may move the needle. Definitely a negative for games in my book.