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Re:'My son spent £3,160 in one game' by filoleg on Monday July 15, 2019 @04:18PM (#20444778)
I agree with your point about non-apple platforms. I cannot enumerate all of them, but it would be silly of me to expect all of them to handle that scenario gracefully, and I believe they should be required to.

However, Starcraft 2 is complete and been this way since the inception. They added microtransactions years after the full release, and they all boil down to cosmetics and other completely optional and non-necessary things, like skins and banners, i.e. cosmetics. Something for hardcore fans to buy in order to support their game, but absolutely non-essential for the actual full experience. And I am saying that as someone who hasn't spent a single dime on Starcraft 2, aside from buying the full game on release (+the expansions that came out years later) and putting hundreds of hours into it.

Re:'My son spent £3,160 in one game' by Kiro on Monday July 15, 2019 @04:32PM (#20444938)
They mean the fact that the game came out in instalments, which is a ridiculous complaint and has nothing to do with the topic at hand.
Re:'My son spent £3,160 in one game' by filoleg on Monday July 15, 2019 @05:04PM (#20445267)
Considering that each installment might as well been a different game, just using the same engine and graphics, I agree that it is a ridiculous complaint. Each installment had a 12hr+ single player campaign + 12hr+ co-op campaign + completely different multiplayer experience.