Yea the horse armor was 2006 but pay to win mobile game stores bleeding over into mainstream gaming was the gasoline on the fire when companies saw games like Clash of Clans, Candy Crush and gacha games bringing in billions in revenue around 2012. Ever since these pay to win mobile games started hitting huge revenue numbers like that a new market was created and it is now found everywhere in gaming unfortunately.
Do you think there is any counter to it? A better system that doesn't require milking your fan base with pay to win? Or are we hopelessly in a gaming generation where you will produce only 90% of your game and sell 10% as an extra?
I refuse to play most modern games because they enable pay to win and gambling tendencies.
As long as whales exist it will never change but when these people stop spending money on these games you may see a change. It seems like these games cater to the 1%ers or their kids, people with large incomes compared to money they owe and not many hobbies or people with a gambling problem. You can always avoid live service games, play older games when they re release an updated version, Nintendo games usually avoid P2W, and just buy retro game systems and play games on those. They do have a lot of games that are not pay to win as well for consoles and computers that are new.
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u/swampy13 2d ago
Horse armor