https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/11/08/grand-theft-auto-v-publishers-want
-microtransactions-in-all-their-future-games-says-boss-man/
The endless quest for more American dollars continues without respite or cleme
ncy at Take Two Interactive, daddy of Rockstar and uber-publisher of Grand The
ft Auto V. They want to put “recurrent consumer spending” in all their futur
e games, said CEO Strauss Zelnick in a recent conference call for investors.
“Recurrent consumer spending” is how men in suits say “microtransactions”,
which is how men in slightly shabbier suits say: “we’re putting a shop in y
our videogame”.
錢滾錢的目標永不停止，R星的頭頭Take Two公司(GTAV的發行者)CEO Zelnick在最近一次
的會議提到，說之後即將會有「經常性消費」，也就是那些穿西裝的人心裡的微型交
易(micro transcation)，白話就是「我們要在你的遊戲放上商城。」
Gamasutra listened in to the 50-minute call and managed to stay awake long eno
ugh to get some hints about the dark (yet unsurprising) future which lies in w
ait for all of us.
Gamasutra公司聽了整段50分鐘的會議，雖然昏頭但是仍然得知這個情況(雖然不意外)。
不明朗的路還在前面。
"We’ve said that we aim to have recurrent consumer spending opportunities for
every title that we put out at this company,” said Zelnick. “It may not alw
ays be an online model, it probably won’t always be a virtual currency model,
but there will be some ability to engage in an ongoing basis with our titles
after release across the board.
「我們之前就說過我們目標是將我們發布的每個產品都加上經常性消費功能」
「可能不是線上的模式，可能不是每次用虛擬的金錢的模式，但是會有一些能夠讓我們遊
戲發布之後能夠一直向前的功能。」Zelnick說。
"One of the things we’ve learned is if we create a robust opportunity, and a
robust world, in which people can play delightfully in a bigger and bigger way
, that they will keep coming back,” he continued. “They will engage. And the
re is an opportunity to monetize that engagement… There’s a lot of room for
growth. This is just the beginning.”
「我們學到的其中一件事就是如果我們創造一個穩健的機會，一個可以讓人們一直想回來
玩這個遊戲的一個穩健的世界，他們會來的。就會有機會將更多東西商機化。有很多成長
的空間，這只是個開端。」
This will not be surprising to anyone playing GTA Online, where the dollars of
San Andreas have long been available for real life dollars. But it also means
upcoming cows and guns blockbuster Red Dead Redemption 2 is likely to have so
me kind of microtransactions too.
其實對那些玩GTA Online的玩家而言沒有很意外，因為在城市San Andreas裡面就有可以
用真錢買賣遊戲貨幣的功能
了。但這只是預告著牛仔槍擊大作Red Dead Redemption 2可能會有類似的微型交易。
Yes, we could all have probably guessed that but there it is anyway. We don’t
yet know what form any such microtransactions would take, however. It could b
e a harmless hat shop, or a drug store where you buy various bottles of player
-killing poison, or a fully lifelike economy in which you are enthralled to yo
ur mining boss and any attempt to unionise is met with a mysterious accident i
n an unsupervised tunnel. We just don’t know.
對，我們大概早就知道了，但是我們不知道微型交易要用怎樣的面貌出現。可能是無害的
帽子衣服商品，或是讓你買了可以直接殺人的毒藥，又或是一個完全的經濟個體，而你被
你的老闆奴役，任何想組織工會的人都會發生意外。
我們真的不知道。