User blog comment:ShinnyShin/The Problems with Elite Cars/@comment-99.228.179.157-20170215203525/@comment-27980511-20170215233516

Micro-transactions themselves are not bad, it's just the extent to which they're pushed in our faces. If it's new content that costs a small fraction of the game's price and includes new content, that's a better approach.

Once it starts giving paying players too much of an advantage over non-paying players, or affects the gameplay significantly enough in favor of monetary gain, [i.e. paywalls] or worse yet, costs more than the game itself or even several games put together, then something is very, very wrong here.

In fact, that dealership scenario I wrote about in the blog could describe the nature of mobile games as a whole!