SteveWinwood
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So someone in the Giantbomb thread said it hadn't been mentioned yet, but the review copies that were sent out actually had all the microtransaction stuff disabled in the game as seen here on today's episode of The Lobby at 1:18:25.
Also from today's giantbomb podcast:
Edit: Stephen Totilo's clarification:
Also from today's giantbomb podcast:
Jeff was talking about it on the podcast and assumed/hoped that stuff was somehow a parody of microtransactions because it wasn't clear if you could actually spend real life money on it in the version they had. I think that says a lot about where we're at with this stuff now. They explicitly said that the microtransaction part of it (which they, again, weren't sure was actually a thing when they recorded the podcast) wasn't in the game.
Edit: Stephen Totilo's clarification: