‘It’s just cosmetics’ monetisation doesn’t quite hold up anymore, especially now it’s started to make fully-priced games…

(Image credit: Warner Bros.) Some variant of ‘it’s fine if it’s only cosmetics’ has been the rallying cry of many a live service game and MMORPG, especially in the past few years—and OK. If you’re looking at a game’s balance from a pure numbers standpoint, that’s absolutely true.It’s old gamer wisdom that any full-price game