I’ll straight up only talk for myself here, but the character designs brought me towards this (not only the hot female designs, but things like Venom and Magneto are bad-ass looking) and it was free, so no risk. I’m sure as sh*t not buying into the microtransactions, but it’s solid and fun for a good distraction until the next game I’m looking forward to.
Nothing about Concord appealed to me and I wasn’t going to spend $40 on that dribble.
That being said, I still do NOT want this to be the direction games are heading. I’m already seeing people ok with free-to-play games monetization because, they’re “free”… when in actuality you spend more on these games in their life time than a traditional one-time pay game. Still, I have enough control not to give in and just enjoy the content I have access to.