Asmongold wants MMO players to band together and stop \u201cpay-to-win\u201d microtransactions Twitch: AsmongoldAfter becoming increasingly fed-up with \u201cpay-to-win\u201d microtransactions in MMOs like Lost Ark, Asmongold wants players to band together in a bid to entice developers to stamp it out. Asmon has been saying that MMOs have had pay-to-win elements for a while now. In his verdict on Lost Ark, he said it was one of the culprits along with World of Warcraft but admitted both games were still fun. However, his frustration reached new heights after Amazon Games added the Argos Abyss raid in Lost Ark, which many deemed to be pay-to-win. He claimed they\u2019d lose players over it and threatened to expose other pay-to-win concerns if they don\u2019t do something about it. Now, he\u2019s gone a step further and asked MMO players to band together to stop pay-to-win microtransactions from plaguing games once and for all, claiming they should be treated no different to NFTs. \u201cI wish the player bases could get together and say they don\u2019t like this and just kind of shut it down,\u201d he said. \u201cI know this is a losing battle. That\u2019s why I don\u2019t really care. I don\u2019t really fixate on it as much anymore.\u201d \u201cWith WoW tokens, it\u2019s pay-to-win. With a bunch of stuff, it\u2019s pay to win. With Lost Ark, they have a million elements to pay to win. People just don\u2019t really give a sh*t about it anymore.\u201d However, he thinks that can change. \u201cI wish gamers treated pay to win the same way they treat NFTs. If that happened, video games, in general, would be a lot better. If they just treated microtransactions the same way they treated NFTs, that would be so much better.\u201d Pay-to-win microtransactions have become a huge part of the MMO experience. However, if anyone has the power to rally MMO players and encourage developers to make them less of an issue, it would be Asmon. As a veteran MMO player who also happens to be one of the most popular streamers on Twitch, his sphere of influence is immense. Still, it\u2019s a big task that will require thousands \u2014 perhaps even millions \u2014 of players to get behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Asmongold wants MMO players to band together and stop \u201cpay-to-win\u201d microtransactions Twitch: AsmongoldAfter becoming increasingly fed-up with \u201cpay-to-win\u201d microtransactions in MMOs like Lost Ark, Asmongold wants players to band together in a bid to entice developers to stamp it out. Asmon has been saying that MMOs have had pay-to-win elements for a while now. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}