goddamn they're all pretty awful and dealbreakers if you ask me, but one thing's for certain : I ain't givin epic my money.

I'm gonna say the always online factor. Not being able to earn achieves, or play a main story properly because servers are offline (or worse, closed down) is enough to make me pass by regardless of the hype.

NFTs
Epic exclusive
Microtransactions for anything besides cosmetics
Always Online

I agree so hard with these...
Especially the 'always online' stuff, my internet here is crap enough without having to hope the servers don't boot me because my ping went over 600+. T3T

Seeing stuff like this is really helpful because I want to make a mobile game, but I specifically want to leave out microtransactions and stuff like that.

I was thinking of only making cosmetics the thing you can buy, and everything else has to be earned through actually playing the damn game.

We're the only micro transaction is a summon system that is actually worthless except being a tip jar? Haven't really figured it out yet

Agree, i can live with always online but im not downloading epic, not playing a pay to win and if you are doing anything involving NFTs im never purchasing anything that has to do with your company again

Yeah those are all pretty awful.
I'm not installing another launcher so the whole epic store thing is probably the first interest killer, next would be the microstransactions (those are a blight upon gaming not seen the wide deaths of arcades), next would be the "always online" thing. I don't mind playing MMOs and the like which kinda require that part to function so that won't kill it for me assuming I was interested to start with. But shoehorning in stuff like that where it doesn't need to be sets off a lot of red flags about the subject.

If Epic Games wants my money then they're gonna have to make me want to use their store and not force me to use it

"Somethine else"...actually, a lot of else. Let me count the ways:
1. Mobile games.
2. Online Multi-player only. i.e. No single-player.
3. Microtransactions.
4. Physical copy in-store exclusive DLC. (Different DLC depending where you buy the game)

Physical Copy isn't physical...

That one had pissed me off twice when i found out the "physical copy" I purchased was just a download code.

Oh god yes. My first experience with this was "buying" Half-Life 2. The disk was just an installer for Steam and I still had to download the game. The second was "Here's your download code stored in a case."

Microtransactions are the deal breaker for me and the reason I've quit more online games than any other

everyone's responses are all true enough for me....
haven't been interested in/excited for games much lately :?

I'm gonna say always online... at least with epic exclusives it's typically only for a year, then I can play the steam release

I don't use Twitter, so I'll answer here. It's a tie between being EGS exclusive and using permanently missable items; EGS is corrupt as hell, and I do not have time in my life to grind out that really cool cosmetic that is only available for one month.

"Mobile"

Over-monetization. When the game is throwin' microtransaction after microtransaction at ye every two seconds (Games made by EA) or when 90% of the game is locked behind DLCs (Cities:Skylines for example).

Publish it under EA/Ubisoft or make it an EGS/Console Exclusive. :)

1. Always Online is a big one. I got to be part of the whole fiasco that was the Outriders launch but it's gotten much better since, I still don't agree with it though.
2. Toxic player or fanbase. I have had fans kill more games I was curious about than anything else honestly. It's not a good way to convince me to get into a game or series if you're berating me or the game I picked to maybe try.
3. Pay to win transactions and excessive microtransactions. If you have to sink an unusually large amount of money into a game for almost every little thing then it's not a game at that point, it might be an addiction you haven't realized yet.

90% of the games I know of, are on my phone, and there are two
deal breakers for me. The first is pay to win. I refuse to keep my
bank information on my phone for security reasons. And I've heard
horror stories about accidentally spending thousands on in-game
transactions. Second, excessive ads. I realize that's how game companies
make money, but there's a line crossed when the ads come so fast and furious
that the game is basically unplayable. I've heard of games where you literally
can't touch anything, without having to listen to an ad that's at least thirty
seconds long.