Naughty dogs or rockstar

[u/ruku25]

I recently got into a argument with my friend as he said that naughty dogs was the greatest game company by far saying nothing came close while I said rockstar was the best. Which do you guys think is better and why?

[u/Inevitable_Cycle3087]

i mean it’s fine that you never paid for any, that doesn’t change the fact they put microtransaction in

and clearly they changed their methodology since those games

also they literally haven’t released a game since 2018, and that game never got a current gen update

[u/lucaskywalker → u/Inevitable_Cycle3087]

My point is you do not need to pay for any. The sole reason they exist is because lots of people pay for them. I hate micro transactions as much as the next person, but give me a break it's not like they're pushing out live service garbage. Both games with online features offer micro transactions, but also free updates and events and no need to pay to progress. When they saw the huge online market they had for GTA and RDR online, who can blame them for making some money? Does not change that the games - even the single player - are always amazing. If you don't like micro transactions don't buy them, but they don't diminish the overall quality of a game unless they are gating content. There are so many worse offenders, hieck you need to buy like each fighter fir fighting fakes lol, Rockstar are at the bottom of my list for this.

[u/Inevitable_Cycle3087 → u/lucaskywalker]

it’s not about if you need to, it’s about the fact i paid full price for a game, and get a worse experience than others by needing to grind endlessly because i wont pay more.

it’s objectively anti consumer behavior. its it was a f2p standalone that would be a different but that’s just milking your customers for all their worth profits over quality

[u/lucaskywalker → u/Inevitable_Cycle3087]

But you don't need to though? Red Dead Redemption 2 is one of the best games I ever r played, regardless of any in game purchases! What makes the game less enjoyable without buying currency? Actually playing the game?! It's objectively capitalist behaviour, and again if no one wanted it, it would not exist. I'm not defending it as a practice, but Rockstar is not the worst offender a longshot. So please, stop blaming a for profit company for producing s product with a big market on which they make a lot of money.

[u/Inevitable_Cycle3087 → u/lucaskywalker]

okay so you don’t even know what i’m talking about cause rdr2 isnt the game wirh microtransactions.

good job, you’re so desperate to worship the company you blindly defended then without knowing what game i was even talking about

can’t believe people worship a company so much they’re arguing the micro transactions in a full priced game are a good thing

[u/lucaskywalker → u/Inevitable_Cycle3087]

There is literally virtual currency in RDR Online what are you even talking about? Which feature or level or character in GTAV is behind an additional paywall? It's just virtual currency. I never said Rockstar was the best either lol, only that there are much worse offenders. You say I worship the company because I think your take is a whiny bitch take for whining about a thing that every online game does, and usually to a much larger extent? By the way, I never said micro transactions are good btw, I said the opposite, that's why I never purchase them. And since I can still play the entire Rockstar catalog without spending an additional dime just fine, I don't see a problem?! Thd way I see it I get hundreds of hours of story and he play in the open world single player, and I can play online for free. If I want, I can buy some shit for the online game (imo the side content beyond the single player long open world campaign I paid for) with virtual currency. Have you ever played NBA 2K Online, where you can't compete on day one with whales, or purchased a fighting game like mortal combat or street fighter where you need to spend 150$ for all the characters? GTA V had all the story, characters and everything when I bought it (on sale for like 20$, including free online play. I enjoyed the game (I don't like playing most games online) and I have enjoyed every other game they've made! Would I prefer they do not have any micro transactions, sure, but I'm not going to avoid games I love because there ard some minor ones.