To be fair, I think players have a right to be upset here.

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Is this worth $20 to you? Apparently, some would say yes.

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After all, what can we really do about it?

Recently, one Diablo fan joked: When do we stop calling them microtransactions?

These are a thing of the past.

Maybe we should call them macrotransactions instead.

It wasn’t always this way.

This is par for the course.

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The unfortunate truth is that today’s microtransaction hell is the compromise.

I would argue that we have seen one alternative, and it was worse in a lot of ways.

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