10 Multiplayer Video Games RUINED By Microtransactions

GTA Online started off ok, with an online sandbox filled with races and deathmatches, but as the piles of money grew around the Rockstar offices, so did the in-game prices.

In contrast to the single player, which made players feel like a hedge fund manager with bazookas, GTA Online felt more like a tutorial on how to plan your finances. With a haircut costing around $3000, and cars racking up to $750,000, it was hard to enjoy the multiplayer when everything was geared towards draining your in-game loot quicker than a backstreet Vampire. The only way to effectively acquire enough cash? Why, purchase it, of course!

While this was bad enough, recently Rockstar has upped the stakes (quite literally) introducing Casinos to GTA Online. If this seems sketchy, that's because it is, despite Rockstar's protestations that gambling is not, in fact, actual gambling.

Ethical problems aside, it's impossible to enjoy GTA Online anymore. Whether this problem arises from feelings of inadequacy about not being able to afford the latest update of neon pants, or the fact that servers are full of infinitely funded tank wielding griefers, perhaps the time is right to switch over to Red Dead 2. *Sad Yee Haw.*