7. Intrusive Microtransactions Ruin The Experience
Microtransactions had so much potential to be great additions to our experiences, yet somewhere along the line the features became more concerned with corporate greed than enhancing the enjoyment of new releases. Not all of them of course; while cosmetic items hidden behind paywalls can be annoying, they don't completely ruin the enjoyment of a game. However, when a title forces you to splash out extra cash in order to get all of the essential content, or to achieve the best weapons in a competitive game, for instance, it becomes intrusive and a blight on the whole experience. Even worse, it's not a though these additional payments are elegantly implemented into gameplay. While being forced to pay extra is frustrating, the fact that they often take you out of the experience, throwing you through a bunch of loading screens or even into an external browser, kills whatever immersion the title may have built until that point.