Not to harsh on anyone’s enjoyment of cool stuff (it’s a cool lookin dinosaur), but I agree with you. The big draw for me with legos, which also drew me in with a number of video games and their character customization, was being creative and making your own thing with the components. And the prices are just absurd now… well, in both areas. Legos are super expensive and the predatory MTX “it’s just cosmetics” is one of the most commonly justified-as-overpriced things in games. I’ve learned my lesson on that stuff with games in the past, overspending with the rationale that I’d get a lot of creativity out of it, but every time, I’d just end up quitting the game far sooner than it’d ever catch up in being worth it.
Not to harsh on anyone’s enjoyment of cool stuff (it’s a cool lookin dinosaur), but I agree with you. The big draw for me with legos, which also drew me in with a number of video games and their character customization, was being creative and making your own thing with the components. And the prices are just absurd now… well, in both areas. Legos are super expensive and the predatory MTX “it’s just cosmetics” is one of the most commonly justified-as-overpriced things in games. I’ve learned my lesson on that stuff with games in the past, overspending with the rationale that I’d get a lot of creativity out of it, but every time, I’d just end up quitting the game far sooner than it’d ever catch up in being worth it.