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adjl posted...

I like how review copies of MD didn't have microtransactions in them, but it wasn't so much because they were deliberately excluded to hide them from reviewers as it was that they were tacked on so late in development that review copies were genuinely too early a build to have them.

I actually know the writer for HR and MD (I know, sounds suspicious, but she is the sister of one of my former co-workers and friends. I am not "in the know" or whatever), and she pretty much confirmed this is exactly what happened. They basically completed the game then SquareEnix was like "You need to add in microtransactions, we don't think the game is going to make enough money otherwise based on how HR performed", so they tacked them on afterwords. They didn't even change the gameplay or anything to accommodate them.