10 Video Games That Made You Quit Gaming
2. Crash Team Racing: Nitro Fuelled Squeezes In Microtransactions A Month After Launch
Want to artificially inflate your Metacritic score? Why not leave out a planned horrible microtransaction suite until a month after the game comes out, making sure any reviews don't mention it?
Activision doesn't exactly have the best reputation when it comes to anti-consumer measures, but this one particularly stings. Crash Team Racing: Nitro Fuelled is a fantastic video game that completely mimics the fun of the original Crash Team Racing, but if there's one thing that'll turn you off playing a game, it's a publisher sneakily deploying its microtransaction nonsense a whole month after launch.
There was no warning that this would happen. Nitro Fuelled launched to great commercial success and commercial acclaim. Many people thought Activision had learned the error of their ways, and just wanted to push out a new Crash game for us to enjoy.
BIG. FAT. NOPE.
Instead, what they did here was condition you to grind for Wumpa coins for a month to unlock in-game cosmetics, then they slowly introduced a store that allowed you to speed up said grind by buying them for yourself... after you'd been conditioned to think the game was a grind.
It's awful stuff and Activision should rightly be called out on such bullsh*t. We're sure many people put down Nitro Fuelled for good after this happened.