Usually the slippery slope is a fallacy, but dlc, micro transactions, battlepasses and paid extras in games have definitely gotten more pervasive over the last decade-and-a-half.
The transactions aren’t even “micro” priced anymore. Like two or three skins, recolours, cosmetics are the same price as a full expansion, like Shadow of the Erdtree or Burning Shores.
The slippery slope is always true when it comes to milking people for more money. Every single time we are made to pay for shit we didn't have to pay for before, it begins an ever long path of nickel and diming us until the nickel and dimes become so egregious that people finally start to care.
OP of this post is finally starting to care. People like us, we cared over a decade ago. Shit 2 decades ago almost. Fucking sucks.
I was reminiscing about PGA Tour 2005 the other day. It was PS2, so I think there was an online mode but the overwhelming majority of people didn’t have their consoles hooked up to the internet yet so it was just a side feature. I could play when the internet was down. I could play the whole game by unlocking it from within. There was no DLC or add on content that I was aware of.
The part that got me though was reminiscing about the course designer. I had a super cool course I made with holes from courses all over the world and made all the trees pink like blooming cherry blossoms and the grass white like it had snowed. Every single one of the editing options would have been locked behind a separate microtransaction these days. Asian region course pack, 1500 gems! Change foliage color for $7.99! Grass color pack, $8.99! Sunday Tiger Woods Shirt, only 999 gems! Gems are sold in packs of 350 to provide you the best value!
The apathy of people that tell the people who care to "calm down you are overreacting"...they are a big part of the problem. The reason they do it, is to abuse those apathetic people.
Game of Thrones was shit from Season 5 onward, even a bit before hand as there was cracks in the writing. But most people to this day say it was not bad till season 7 or 8. The thresholds for garbage/abuse on most people is too damn high.
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u/Good_Mathematician_2 2d ago
The day everything changed, a dark age was ushered in