Obviously a Paul Tassi headline can serve as a console war fodder to prove a point. Paul Tassi equated this to Call of Duty WWII where MTX dropped weeks after reviews. And multiple quotes from his friend Jim Sterling trying to create fake outrage. And ofcourse this gem
Here is the original article where Paul Tassi sourced his story from
Rare wants the items you can pay for to have "emotional value, not mechanical value."
www.ign.com
But IGN didn't mention any quote from Rare, just
So there won't be any lootboxes and MTX will only be cosmetic and we don't have any quote regarding the supposed "3 months" that everyone believed back then(which Paul Tassi equated with right after launch to avoid bad reviews likw COD WWII). One of the things added in September 2019 for MTX was pets.
Shacknews recently visited Rare to try out parts of Sea of Thieves' Anniversary Update and to speak with Senior Designer Shelley Preston and Executive Producer Joe Neate – here's what we learned!
www.shacknews.com
They delayed pets because pets which were supposed to release in Anniversary Update because "you couldn't pet the pets". Here is everything that was released as MTX 18 months after launch.
Clearly these are not thingns meant to be released 3 months after launch, or as you and Paul Tassi suggest "It was ready at launch but delayed to avoid bad press at launch".
I am curious what are the thoughts of Paul Tassi on the subject matter of this thread, since he believes MTX should not exist in first party games at all.
Gran Turismo 7 is experiencing a number of issues, both technical, which recently resulted in 30 hour downtime after a patch went wrong, but also with its game economy, as the purpose of that patch in the first place was to increase grind time in many aspects of the game, which has upset players.
www.forbes.com
Thats his only comment on this.
Yes, Sea of Theives had pets and all other MTX stuffs ready at launch. I am sure that was all they were thinking of that while making the game. The MTX in Sea of Theives is completely outside of the gameplay and purely cosmetic.