How much time do microtransactions save?

Paying for this trainweck of a game? Nothing against microtransactions, I wanted to spend money myself to show my appreciation due to 3.000+ hours of Mass Effect 3. But paying for this? Common bugs are still in place, expensive packs still filled with trash and persisting problems with matchmaking / latency.

Playing Andromeda on a hosts friend located in the US and ME3 on the very same host yields two completely different results. First game is unplayable, second is just fine. Just saying. Now that my rares are maxed and my dwindling interest to play I don't see anymore reason to pay at all.

Well played, EA. But I guess I can thank those who paid regardless the condition of the game as well.

Edit:
Oh, people have complained about it a lot and some occasionally still do. But the time for that kind of rant is over, I guess, just like all the other rants (teleporting fiends that literally grab you from the other side of the map e.g.) it get's old eventually. BW won't change that system, so complaining won't help.

Ive dropped money for an RNG chance at cosmetics in some other games. Not feeling that yet with MEA for power upgrades. On the view to get a good head start on rares it might be good. On the UR front I expect RNG to gift me with more Soned.

Now that was interesting.

Yeah, the whole shop is badly designed and outright predatory. While the ME3MP shop was bad too, they actually managed to make this worse with more UR bloat, mods getting rank X, and the whole character card to X for full efficiency.

Had they made it actually good/fair/honest with a work/pay for what you want and not a gambling station, I'd probably have spent 100$+, as I don't have enough time irl to get them juicy URs. Now, the gain is just so very low - and uncontrolled at that.

I'm still on the fuck EA/BioWare wagon for making the shop like that. Don't know how they managed to make it worse... But figuring their skillful handling of MP and SP, I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

I couldn't care less about non-forced microtransactions in a coop-game. But I like it when other people finance free DLCs for me.

What really makes no sense is that you seem to have no idea what the actual topic of the video is.

Meanwhile in bioware office:
"Ok, everyone, back to the drawing boards: the comunity is complaining about how little time is saved via microtansactions."
"Weren't we going to talk about fixing bugs?"
"who said that? Shut up and make us some coffee. Now, those of you with actual brains, any proper ideeas?"
"How about we add a 10% chance every box bought with in game currency will critical fail and remove one of the weapons or kits?"
"Didn't you hear me? We need to think big! Double that number and make sure every 3 games the game crashes on wave 7. Also, allow only 2 gold games/day unless they get a premium account. Other companies got it so right with this shit...."

Except this isn't a complaint. Its just something I found interesting. 

I had four beers and thought it was a good idea to get the 1050 pack

Got one ultra rare from it. Not the worst thing I've done when drinking... still not one of the smartest things I've ever done either

I don't doubt that!

But yeah I agree 100%, locking skill points behind evil RNG bullshit UR character cards was just greed kicking their better judgment in the nuts

+1

As i said before, some of us have lives that prevent us spending all our free time in a video game. 450 hours is just under 20 days, or almost 3 weeks of solid playing. While you clearly have the time to pour into playing video games, other people dont. Similarly, some people play other games too. If that is beyond your understanding then i dont know what else to tell you.

Not to direct this at anyone in particular, but its also really fucking rude to tell people how you feel they should be spending their disposable income too.