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Imo they shouldn't do Witcher 4, you should stop when it's best. They won't be able to meet the expectations and only disappoint when people compare it to W3.
Nothing inside a video game should cost money.
No abuse highlights that absurdity quite like paying for shit that's already on your own computer. There's no server! There's no infrastructure costs, except to prevent the game you just bought from doing the thing you bought it for!
Ban the entire business model. It's a scam. Games make you want arbitrary worthless nonsense - that is what makes them games. Directly monetizing that is an exploitation of humanity's predictable irrationality. Your brain cannot cleanly separate kinds of value. On some level you are wired to pursue cheeseburgers and enchanted scimitars in the same way.
Cosmetics have the exact same grip. They're just a thinner needle you're less likely to complain about. It's the same multi-billion-dollar wallet siphon, jabbing at you every time you play. Limited offer! Today only! Look what your friend got! Have a free pull! Jab jab jab. And people still brag that they've only spent twice the cost of the game, inside that game, for things already inside the game they bought.
Addiction to frustration is maximum revenue, under this model. This is the dominant strategy. You were never going to shop your way out of it. If we allow this to continue, there will be nothing else. Only legislation will fix this.
I'm not a huge gamer anymore, at least not of newer games... aren't microtransactions a bigger problem in multiplayer games because it gives player willing to spend money an unfair advantage over skilled players?
not necessarily, they can be cosmetic only.
Sure, not necessarily... but in practice? Again, this is not something I have personal experience, but based on what I've read about it, it generally is about giving someone an advantage, isn't it?
Some of the older COD games had guns you could only get with real money, and they were overpowered. Nowadays it seems even free to play games have mostly cosmetic micro transactions.
Praise Geraldo del Rivera! CD Projekt Red is (le)terally saving gaming.