I DO get your point but it is only your opinion that it is hurting the game that is true.
For example for me I could care less because I wont buy it anyway. For everyone on my freinds list they dont even know its there. WHY because they just ignore it like I do.There are no menus to hop thru, there is only a blue button that says "store" on it . Only time I noticed was one time when I HEARD there was a Cyborg camo. Otherwise I could not see it OR did it get in the way of my game. And if whats on the other side of the blue button bothers you then DONT click the blue button. If the preacher on Channel 7 bothers you watch another station or turn the TV off.
There isnt even a choice on the menu if you have to go out of your way to find it. Its not like they are actually making you go thru purchase choices in 50 different menus every time you play the game.
Almost every single place you go in this world someone is going to try to upsell something to you. When you want to order a burger they are going to "get in your face and force you to answer do you want fries with that. FORCING you to go off that "food dream" you were just having to answer their question.
The Micro transaction will ALWAYS keep coming and coming and coming. Be glad at least that everytime you log on it doesnt say " You want to by this camo ? YES, NO" then the next menu "How about this Avatar TShirt, YES NO". THAT will be ruining the game.
Only reason I am "late" for this is you are giving it more energy than it has a right to have. Why dont you try understanding what other people are saying as well instead of just spouting your own opinion?
I have been playing (for example) COD for years. Not once has any of these micro transactions EVER gotten in the middle of my game. Nor has it in any other game I play. Because they are so far away from the main menus and I have to actually search for them I just want to stress this one point You are acting like a popup jumps on your screen in the middle of a firefight.
Now you want to complain about something like this you might want to look up some of those games we used to play online on the PC where the "walls" etc used to flash advertisements of products of website histories we used to visit.
XBL is just a game platform where players can join together in online games. Now I would figure that you would be more upset at the advertisements that repeatedly show up on your TV in the main menus and the advertisements that (for example) show up almost everytime you watch a video on the GameStop app. You agreed to the Terms that people are allowed to use advertisements when you signed up for XBL, if you didnt then you cant play online. and guess what ? They are also their when you dont have a gold account.
Its called marketing and it is everywhere. Soon to be in space and soon to take up about half of your view of the moonscape. I hear some caves in the mountains dont have advertisement in them yet.