I dont think about the micro transaction stuff as "if 2 people dont buy it it wont have an effect" i think more about it that every purchase anyone makes in microtransactions shows them that it works and that they get money out of chopping up a good game and sell the parts for 4 € each. And i dont belive that only because there's some people with too much money, everyone else should not suffer for it because greedy publishers want to milk those people

with the bug thing. i only got efected in the first USSR campain mission the artylery wreck texture was pink, and on one map the VP if get's hit with artylery or a nade then a squere with no texture appear's and like 2 campain achigment's are broken but the other's i never encountered . alltho my freand allot of the time crash's when he is viewing the post game statisic screan. and yea calling it "not as bad" is not right thing to say... more like "less worse" but yea it's still bad BUT as you say the game it self is good. after you get around the bug's (that i don't realy expirance) and the microtransaction's you get a good game . it's a shit move that they made it like this . but pepole exist with spending money issue's that get exploited by the game's industrie's or rich pepole that buy this shit . if we two don't buy micro transaction's it won't change enything

3/3

I can and will freely admit that the game can be quite fun to play, and can get very intense at points. But the transactions and bugs and crashes really make this game deserve a negative review.

For bugs and crashes i've encountered so far:

Story mission scripts break and become unwinnable if you alt+tab during the missions

Vehicles and Player build structures get weird textures (all pink and messed up)

All Civilian Buildings appear completely destroyed even if they are not

at least 5-10 crashes so far in post-mission loading screens.

And as a result of the negatives outweighing the positives (the gameplay) i think this game fully deserves any negative review it gets (mine included).

It is not about wheter the game has a good part at its core. Its about the balance of negative and positive, and since for me the negative is more than the positive in the case of this game, i belive this review is totally justified.

2/3
I dont even mind as much spending money on a game that is good in its base form, and that i've put a lot of time into, i've bought small dlc for games like sniper elite and quite a bunch of skins for csgo, because these games gave me many of hours of enjoyment without gating most of their content behind a paywall.
But when so much of the basic functionality and content is locked behind this sort of transactions its just a total crapshoot. I also found that it locks rewards based on dmg and activity during the match. So you cant set up a bot vs bot match with you in one team and let them do the work while you go afk. It just shows that they put more effort into preventing you from getting those points than actually enabling you a painless way to get them so they can pressure you into spending money.

1/2

Well, first thing we can do about those kind of microtransactions is to

1. Warn potential buyers before they get the game
2. Not rationalizing and defending them as "not as bad" when they are bad in general, and especially bad in this game.
3. Not engaging in buying any of them, (which sucks for the content that is paywalled , but its a matter of principle)

most basic commander's are good or "useble" apart from the USF one's where only one of the basic commander's is useble. the DLC comanders are beter then the "free one's" so yea it's BS they cost money but what can we do realy. it's a pain in the dick to get a full set of commander's for a faction for "free". i have been playing for month's after geting the sim city guy on UKF and never get the last one from drop's. unfortunatly for both of us this kind of microtransaction's in game's are here to stay if we like it or not . there is nothing we can do i think. bdw i think you don't get point's from bot match's because the match has to last 5 minute's for the match to count the point's.... i had match's end in like 4 minute's because me and my bud wiped the enemy's army and
they surrendered and we got no point's.

The point beeing that it indeed IS outrageous. Tbh i find a commander with a certain special set of abilities for 4€ worse than a red dot or skin for 2€. Because the commander actually locks gameplay options, meanwhile the red dot is purely cosmetical and mostly not even helpful (trust me i got thousands of hrs in the CoD games). The fact you lock this much actually gameplay affecting stuff behind those paywalls is inexcusable. In my review you'll see that i dont have a gripe against the gameplay. just the way the game handles the gameplay restirctions and earning rewards is worthy of a bad review in my book.

it is outrageous BUT it is not as bad as other game's. in coh2 UNLEAST you can unlock the commander's , skin's and bulletins for "free" . it is BS but what can we do ? i don't thing the microtransaction's will ever fuck off and burn in hell .the only way is if they got banned or some shit like that. unleast there aren't eny 1$ red dot sight's or battle pases or A GOD DAM CASSINO in coh2....if coh3 happene's it will have a cassino i bet . and idk who buy's mission pack's. my freand boght the compleat pack and got them in the bundle and they are very bad and boring BS.i know cuz you can play coop missions with a person that has them if you don't own them yourself..... they realy suck ass but. that's relic for ya

And that are the idividual prices taken directly from the ingame shop, that totals to more than 350€ in microtransactions. How is that kind of monetization "not that bad"? That is absolutely fucked in the head.

Would you then please care to explain how

45 Commanders, each priced between 3-4€,
3 Factions, each priced around 10€
35+ Skin packs, each priced 6€
21 Faceplates, each priced 2 €
3 Mission packs (2 for 10€ each and 1 for 5€
And
100+ Intel Bulletins for 1000 Ingame currency each

And add on top that you dont earn ingame currency for bot matches.

Do not, in your opinion, constitute absolutely OUTRAGEOUS Monetization?