"Once we confirm that the game economy is balanced and fun for our players out in the wild," said the studio, "we plan to offer Tokens [a real-money currency that works like CR] as a matter of player choice. Some players appreciate using Tokens as a way of gaining immediate access to content that may take many hours to acquire in the normal course of play. There will also be an option within the in-game menu to turn off Tokens entirely."
This really fucking grinds my gears for multiple reasons. These pure scumbags deliberately leave out the micro-transactions from the launch game so the reviewers dont call them out for it and give the game a bad name.
It gets patched in later once they have their 85 on Metacritic or whatever. So anyone who buys this is gonna have to deal with it unless they are done with the game in a few days.
There is no set price on this. They can "fine tune" it later so that what is cheap and easy to get today with the launch game and no micro-transactions can easily be a nightmare grind once they start charging people for it.
In a lot of cases like these its not even paid DLC that you can buy. Its basically random ass loot crates where you pay for a chance to get something good. Just straight up gambling.
And they have the FUCKING nerve to pretend like its a pro consumer move.
JUST. FUCK. OFF!