10 Insulting Microtransactions Video Games Had To REMOVE

In another case of an unapologetic pay-to-win model, Marvel's Avengers - already a huge disappointment in virtually every other regard - also introduced experience point boosts players could purchase with real money.

With one of the game's main criticisms being a truly insane grind to develop your characters, the post-launch addition of the XP boost was especially damning.

If that weren't bad enough, this came after promises to payers that microtransactions would only be for cosmetic items that didn't affect gameplay. And in yet another comical twist, the XP boosts were also introduced after a patch that significantly reduced the amount of XP earned in the actual game.

Combined with the game's overall poor quality, it really felt as though publisher Square-Enix was pulling out all the stops to make money back on a sure-fire expensive disaster, and in the most insulting ways possible.

Players were so incensed that it took less than a month to remove the XP boosts. But we can't help but wonder how much they made off of them during that brief period.