3. Developers Think Customers Will Buy Anything
We already know that publishers think that gamers are pretty dumb, but at least they usually have the good grace to keep that opinion to themselves. Unfortunately though, over the past few months the people who make our games have dropped whatever etiquette they once had, with news stories popping up all over of how developers expect us to shell out money for the most inconsequential of features. Perhaps the most egregious example of this blatant disregard for the consumer base came early last year, with a marketing employee of Bungie rightly putting his foot in it during an interview about the game's DLC plans. Getting a little hot and bothered after repeatedly defending the company's DLC practices, the interviewee outright admitted that he expected fans to be "
throwing money at the screen" as soon as they saw the emotes included in game's boxed re-release. While this is just one example, the mentality is present in the business model of just about every game we play today. Features that were once included as free bonuses in our titles are now cut out and sold as extra content - which wouldn't be so bad, if developers didn't act like they were somehow doing us a favour by selling us features that should have been free in the first place.