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Full headline, because Dreamwidth sucks, at least in the subject line length department: "Game that promised no paid DLC ever is getting paid DLC: 'We need a way to continue to fund the development'"
Here's an idea! Perhaps, you know, this developer could, and I'm just throwing this out here, try making a new game! This is a thing that they could do, instead of finding banal, obnoxious ways to monetize a game that's already been out for seven years (an entire half decade of which were apparently spent in so-called "Early Access").
And, of course, all the sycophantic lickspittles (or, possibly, reputation management drones) in the comments under that PC Gamer article who are supporting and defending this shitty behavior are a huge part of the reason why such shitty behavior continues to pervade the modern video game industry. Modern video game creators will never stop shitting this kind of thing down the sewer pipe as long as modern video game consumers never stop willfully and militantly sucking said shit from said sewer pipe. But yadda yadda it's not like that's a thing I haven't already pointed out dozens and dozens of times by this point.
In any case, this is a game that I, personally, only learned existed just now, today, thanks to that there PC Gamer article, and it is a game in which I, personally, have less than zero interest, because it's apparently nothing more than yet another unoriginal multiplayer-only first person shooter game, in a vast, vast sewer of such games. My only interaction with this game has been to go onto its Steam store page and mark it as Ignored, same as I do with all such multiplayer-only games I see.
Here's an idea! Perhaps, you know, this developer could, and I'm just throwing this out here, try making a new game! This is a thing that they could do, instead of finding banal, obnoxious ways to monetize a game that's already been out for seven years (an entire half decade of which were apparently spent in so-called "Early Access").
And, of course, all the sycophantic lickspittles (or, possibly, reputation management drones) in the comments under that PC Gamer article who are supporting and defending this shitty behavior are a huge part of the reason why such shitty behavior continues to pervade the modern video game industry. Modern video game creators will never stop shitting this kind of thing down the sewer pipe as long as modern video game consumers never stop willfully and militantly sucking said shit from said sewer pipe. But yadda yadda it's not like that's a thing I haven't already pointed out dozens and dozens of times by this point.
In any case, this is a game that I, personally, only learned existed just now, today, thanks to that there PC Gamer article, and it is a game in which I, personally, have less than zero interest, because it's apparently nothing more than yet another unoriginal multiplayer-only first person shooter game, in a vast, vast sewer of such games. My only interaction with this game has been to go onto its Steam store page and mark it as Ignored, same as I do with all such multiplayer-only games I see.
