6 Video Game "Fixes" (That Actually Broke Everything)
4. Crash Team Racing: Nitro Fueled – Microtransactions
Not so much breaking, as alienating any long-term, hardcore fans such a game may have.
Activision said time and time again, there would be no paid content in the new
Crash Team Racing besides the two versions of the game. Yet, months after
release, in an effort to solve a problem Beenox themselves created, the ability
to purchase in-game Wumpa Coins through real-life payment has been added.
Why would anyone want to log in each day, play daily races and earn their Wumpa Coins the legitimate way, Activision asks, answering for us, when you can literally just buy them.
Plenty of games have micro-transactions, plenty of people forgive it. However, when your PR leading up to the game’s release specifically states no in-game purchases, as expected for a family friendly Crash Bandicoot game, people get upset at the lies.
Developers Beenox, clearly squeezed by publishing giant Activision, felt what little backlash players could offer them. Many left the game and others complained online.