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It’s Just Cosmetic (The Jimquisition)

  • Writer: James Stephanie Sterling
    James Stephanie Sterling
  • Dec 18, 2017
  • 1 min read

The episode we all knew was coming. The Jimquisition at last smashes into the “It’s Just Cosmetic” argument with a bulldozer.


Many will defend certain types of microtransaction and loot box by claiming if they sell only cosmetic DLC, it’s fine. Cosmetics “don’t affect gameplay” and therefore anything goes.


This is rubbish. Cosmetics absolutely impact gameplay, and to argue otherwise is to heap insult upon games as a medium.

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