The Jimquisition - Fee 2 Pay

[The Sam]

"With the imminent launch of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, a fresh outrage has spawned over its inclusion of microtransactions. I love outrages about microtransactions, so much so that I coined the phrase "Fee To Pay" years ago.

Here we are again - the practice of "Fee To Pay" is more common, but no less distasteful. Let's revisit the stupid world of "feemium" games, where you gotta pay... if you wanna pay."

(LANGUAGE WARNNING, VISUAL WARNING, HE'S A SQUID NOW)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHszeYz5Mi0

[Mozenrath]

Konami is already trying to f*** him on this video. I guess he took the first shot, but still.

The only example of this kind of thing I can think of off the top of my head that I had no issue with was the Bravely Default one where you could buy an item for like a dollar that could make fights easier. I completely forgot it was even something in the game until thinking on the topic of this sort of thing due to this video. It was mentioned like once at the beginning of the game and never again to my knowledge, and mainly existed as a get out of jail free card, from what I can gather. If you have ever played an RPG before, you probably wouldn't even consider it to begin with, as your impulse on a hard boss fight would just be to grind a little and get a job level or 2, not pay a dollar or whatever to get freebie turns. It didn't strike me as particularly unsavory in that instance.