A cheat that allowed players to give themselves infinite coins in Wolfenstein: Youngblood has been patched out of the game, causing online community Reddit to decry Bethesda's typical greedy ways. The patch for the game was implemented today, five days after the exploit was first shared online.
Modern day Game Shark, called Cheat Engine, uses a virtual machine on your computer to modify games. User Calibrono on Reddit shared his discovery that Cheat Engine could be used to give yourself coins in a post called "Microtransactions in Wolfenstein: Youngblood completely bypassed by Cheat Engine." While TheGamer is happy to participate in calling out the predatory habits of publishers, an understanding of the economy in Youngblood reveals this patch isn't exactly designed to reach deep into gamer pockets and take you for all that their worth. If anything, maybe just that little coin pocket they put on jeans that most people don't ever use anyway.
There are two types of currency in Wolfenstein: Youngblood, coins and gold bars. Coins are the in-game currency collected throughout your play-time that are used to upgrade your weapons and fill in your skill tree while gold bars are the premium currency used to purchase cosmetic skins. While coins can be used to purchase cosmetics as well, you most likely won't be spending them frivolously unless you plan on grinding the game long after the 10 or so hours it takes to complete it.
Which is why the backlash from Redditors over the patch is slightly absurd. Yes, removing the ability to hack in unlimited coins does prevent you from collecting all the cosmetics without grinding for coins, but that's pretty much ALL it does. It's not as if you can use your unlimited coins to purchase all the upgrade and skills, you'll be gated by your level before you can unlock each new tier, and if you're leveling and playing the game, you're also collecting the coins you need to purchase upgrades. Remember, gold bars CAN NOT be used to purchase upgrades, they are exclusively for cosmetics.
So unless you are against the idea of microtrans-cosmetics, there's really nothing to be upset about. Removing the option to purchase cosmetics with coins would have the same effect, but leaving the option and removing the cheat protects the integrity of the game experience the developers intended you to have.
Though we don't find the patch to be particularly egregious, the number of game breaking bugs we encountered in our review of Youngblood was inexcusable. If the developers want to patch the game, maybe they can patch some brains into the partner A.I. or patch the difficulty slider to actually change the difficulty when adjusted, just a thought.