Look up the word “liable.”
Then come back and try to engage in this discussion in a way that matters - like when I ask, if YOU think this business model is NOT VALID, why the fuck is it okay? Even if you think someone overstepped from “it’s already half the industry holy shit” to some absolute - why is ANY example tolerable?
If you agree this business model is a scam, the appropriate number of examples is zero. I shouldn’t have to litigate whether the current number of example is a fuckload, a bunch, or a totality. All of those are far too many.
It’s nowhere near half the industry. It’s a small corner of games that already are dogshit anyways.
2K is one of the only examples where there’s actually a game underneath it to be made worse by the model.
It’s literally half of all revenue. You wanna split more hairs instead of addressing the fucking point? Maybe do it by yourself.
Every game with this shit is made worse. That’s the only way it works. There’s some version of the game that’s optimized for your enjoyment - and you are granted brief glimpses of it, for money. Frustration, disappointment, and exclusion are all openly abused to shove you toward throwing away more actual money. And again: there’s examples of this shit in every genre, in MMOs, in single-player games, et very cetera.
Not that I should have to justify the problem’s existence to someone who already said:
I don’t think this monetization scheme is valid.
THEN STOP DEFENDING IT.
Fuck!