Ruin Your Favorite Game With Micro Transaction and/or Loot Boxes

[legacyzero]

Final Fantasy VIII

Basic low tier magics = $1.99
Mid tier = $2.99
High tier = $4.99

Magic can be earned by spending hours "Drawing" magic from beasts. Also by spending hours playing Triple Triad online.

Game ruined. Now you go.

 

[Dunban]

Breath of the Wild

Tree branches and woodcutter axes are the only weapons that can be acquired naturally in-game. Everything else comes from lootboxes.

$1.00 - Traveler-tier weapon
$1.50 - Soldier-tier weapon
$2.00 - Knight-tier weapon

etc.

Master Sword - and the true ending - only obtainable by preordering the $200 Special Edition.

 

[xir]

Dark Souls series

What could be worse than pay to win?





Pay to look fabulous! Would ruin fashion souls.
Hard enough to get the trident!

 

[SunBroDave]

Dark Souls

5 estus charges = $0.99 or 40 hours of grinding

 

[HistoricalAnomaly]

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Access to Shrines - $.99 for one/$4.99 for ten/$9.99 for twenty five
Reveal Towers - $19.99 for all/$4.99 each
Weapon Durability - $.99 for ten hits/$1.99 for twenty five/$4.99 for fifty
Runes - $4.99 each/$19.99 for all
Leave Great Plateau - $49.99
Enter Gerudo - $19.99 (plus $9.99 for female armor)

 

[DGenerator]

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 3

Cancel it and pave the path for free-to-play nonsense.

 

[Opto]

Dark Souls

5 estus charges = $0.99 or 40 hours of grinding

Click to shrink...

Let it Die, more or less

 

[Cenauru]

Final Fantasy XIV

Glamour prisms are now only obtainable through loot boxes, and the chance to get it is padded by every other consumable in the game also being on the drop table.

 

[Lump]

Hi-Rez already did with Tribes Ascend.

 

[Desma]

Disgaea

Unit Lootboxes: Roll to get a unit, you may get a high ranking class or even a legendary character from previous games!

 

[Admiral Woofington]

Witcher 3

Buy Witcher school boxes
Comes with 2 pieces of equipment
A gwent card
And 3 consumables.
Random chance to get a witcher school blue print.

 

[Mechaplum]

Nier:A is easy. Literally make chips only come from lootboxes you can pick up but can't open unless you buy keys with real money from the store. Same with weapon upgrades.

Spoiler: Best idea

Self destruct is now only $19.99, and comes with 5 random chips.

 

[KushalaDaora]

Shin Megami Tensei (and Persona) :
"Hmm, you want me to join you?"
"Give me $.99"
"It's not enough, give me $4.99"
"Good, another $4.99 and I'll join you"
"Bye, sucker"

Monster Hunter :
"You ran out of Carving Knife to carve the monster, do you want to buy more ?"
1 Carving Knife for $1.99
5 Carving Knives for $8.99
10 Carving Knives for $15.99 Best Value !

 

[Beans]

Cuphead

£7.99 = 1,000 cups

50 cups = 1 life

and ruined.

 

[kickz]

Super Mario Odyssey

Each Death costs you 2000 coins, 0 coins means gameover and a forfeiture of 1 Moon each time

1000 coins for $2.99

5000 coins for $7.99

 

[TheSkullPrince]

No, don't do this, don't give them any ideas AHH FUCK IT'S TOO LATE

 

[ZhugeEX]

Let's not give publishers more ideas folks.