For the life of me I cannot pinpoint exactly when late stage gaming started to kick off.
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Xbox Live/Playstation Plus. Successfully instituting a fee to access online multiplayer meant that the market was captured. This paved the way for more egregious cash grabs.
So it’s 2004/5 for u?
Yeah, that’s about right. 2006 saw the $10 horse armor in Oblivion.
Horse Armor.
Early 2010s I would say. That was when microtransactions started getting pushed into mainstream games and companies began pushing from away from the model of making complete AAA single player games.
