10 Overpriced Video Game BS You Should AVOID

2. Diablo IV's $21 Bone Guy Armour

Diablo IV
Blizzard

Much as nobody's forcing you to buy cosmetic DLC, sometimes they're priced so damn contemptuously that it's tough not to be outraged at the sheer gall of it.

Case in point, Diablo IV's "Bone Guy" armour was priced for an almost laughable $21 - laughable in the sense that the term "microtransaction" barely seems appropriate anymore, given that it alone costs almost one-third of the game's base price of $70.

Naturally a cosmetic item this expensive is clearly aimed squarely at "whales" - a dehumanising term the industry uses for players who spend massive amounts of money in-game - yet even for players well-off enough to toss endless money around, it can't help but seem totally exploitative.

For a title which generated $666 million in revenue within its first five days, you have to ask Blizzard, "How much money is enough?" But let's not be naive - the answer, inexorably, is that "enough" doesn't exist.

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