And it is so easy and so tempting for publishers to bring that in if a game starts to struggle as it nearly guarantees that players will buy it in order to remain competitive. What I DO have a problem with are micro-transactions that allow cashed up players to buy a super powered sword, for example, with real money, and that sword or its equivalent is not available in game in any other way than with real money. It doesn't change the dynamic of the gameplay. This is done from the Collections tab on the game menu. Even if they add aesthetic things you can buy with real money like new hair styles or whatever, I'm cool with that. To mount a horse, you must first have one set as your active mount.

Reminds me of buying a WoW mount back in vanilla when it actually took work to save up for. Compare game prices and buy The Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr Rahd-mAthra Horse Mount with the lowest price on Xbox One. The horse is exactly the same as can be bought in game and, while expensive to buy, it is not impossible. At the moment I don't really care as even if a player does buy a horse for real money it doesn't give that player an unfair advantage over a player who can't afford to buy it with real money. Zenimax could make the severity of killing horses the same as murdering townsfolk. What does bother me about them is their ability to be abused. With all the talk of the upcoming Justice System, I hope the developers also allow players the ability to attack various NPC horses in town and around Tamriel. Personally micro-transactions don't bother me TOO much.

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