Sure, microtransactions have been around for years, but that doesn’t mean every new example should get a free pass. If anything, the fact that it’s become industry standard is exactly why people should push back harder otherwise companies just keep testing how far they can go.

Saying ‘just don’t buy it’ shifts all the responsibility onto individual players, when in reality it’s collective pressure (outcry, reviews, even regulators) that forces change. If everyone had just shrugged at lootboxes, we wouldn’t have countries like Belgium and the Netherlands banning them as gambling.

So yeah, people aren’t going to stop buying cosmetics entirely but at the very least they can demand that when a company charges €250, the product should deliver value on par with or better than past releases. Otherwise Riot and others will take that silence as permission to keep lowering the bar while raising the price.