I was 9 minutes away from missing my refund window. When I first started the game it seemed pretty decent, I had some fun.. after the intro mission I got a popup telling me to BUY RIFT CRYSTALS ONLY $0.99.. I was like wtf, closed it out and kept playing. I was having a fair bit of fun when I saw the second and third popups trying to sell me things, I decided to log off and do more research.. Found out they sell the ability to fast travel, they sell the ABILITY TO SAVE YOUR GAME (it's a camp kit that's required to save your game)! They sell the ability to hire pawns, you even have to pay to be able to change your characters appearance. It's honestly insulting to your customers who just paid $70 for this game to try and take more money from them, it's unacceptable and I can't support this kind of developer even if I found the game to be relatively fun. None of us should be rewarding this kind of behavior. Make sure that they hear us and we never allow this to happen again. I have genuinely never been this disappointed with any other game in my entire life.

"BUT YOU CAN GRIND MOST OF THESE ITEMS IN GAME" it doesn't matter, it's the principle. The game was quite obviously designed to make things inconvenient/grindy for you if you don't pay, which is insulting to the customers who have paid full price. MTX should not be in a single player game. Use your brain, if mtx was "meaningless" they would not have spent so much time and effort to implement this system and conceal it from all reviewers up until release day. The reason that they added mtx to this game is because they KNEW idiot fanboys would go out shilling for microtransactions, knowing that they can go further and further next time.

If you are shilling for these microtransactions, please go and play Baldurs Gate 3 or Cyberpunk 2077. THAT is how a great game is made, not this garbage.