“This is spreading to everything.” “It’s not in everything yet.”
Yeah. That’s what spreading means.
Do you think this problem vanishes if it only infects 90% of games? You gonna tut and scold over this growing abuse, which you acknowledge is an abuse, so long as there’s one game somewhere that didn’t choose an invalid money-sucking business model? “Lol?”
It’s not anywhere close to everything. There are far more quality games that don’t do anything like it than quality games that do. It’s primarily the same AAA shovelware that’s also terrible for 50 other disastrous design decisions and isn’t actually playable regardless of the business model.
It’s spreading TO everything. Do you understand what that means? It does not mean “it’s in everything.” It means: it’s in a lot of things, and it’s coming to a lot more things. Potentially: all of them.
And again - if it’s not literally everything, does that make the problem go away? You, yourself, just now, said this business model is not valid. Why the fuck are you still defending its existence?
but every game that matters is liable to demand thousands of your actual dollars
This is not ambiguous. It is an insane ridiculous lie, and the extreme bad faith of posting it inherently invalidates your ability to take part in the discussion.