Originally posted by Cameleer:

Because this dev doesn't have shareholders that wants more money than what they invested, Money inn = more and better content. While AAA Billion dollar companies need to give investors more money than they put in and the best way to do that is to scam players, if Overwatch 2 makes 500 million dollars, only a small % of that money is used to further develop the game, while the majority goes to shareholders and ceo's.

When a game has online only + MTX you know its going to be a ♥♥♥♥ game in the long run, since the company is using you to keep them alive, its a very parasitic way of running games these days. If the players dont buy MTX the game dies, and the players obviously dont want it to die so they keep paying.

Never buy MTX in any game without knowing the value of what you are consuming


TLDR: MTX is a way for companies to condition you to spend more for less, there is a reason we have battlepasses now and loot boxes are bad, even tho both are bad

exceptions to the rule do exist, like path of exile. that one has taken over a decade before it caved in to the battle pass gravy train. heck some whitegoods don't last that long. dont starve together from memory also does mtx's. in terms of simple to get into and a game that has an end, could be something like untitled goose game.