"Volition's Saints Row 4 upgrade was meant to be a make-good, but it broke the game instead"

Yeah, I'm sure glad I decided to play Saints Row IV before they decided to make it "better" so that I didn't have to deal with any of this shit. I only had to deal with all that other shit, is all.

Ignoring all that other shit, though, it was still a pretty good game overall. With that said, I think I liked Saints Row: The Third better. (Still haven't played Saints Row 2 or that new reboot thing yet.)

(Pre-post edit) Oh... and I just found out that with this new "update," it now apparently installs Epic Online Services with the game, which it did not do before. So yeah, fuck that asinine dumbshit right to hell and back and then to hell again, where it should stay. If that continues to be the case going forward, and isn't (hopefully) backpedaled super-hard at some point in the future, then I'll probably never install this game again, because to hell forever with Epic Games and anything and everything to do with Epic Games. *weary goddamn sigh* (Pre-post edit)

"Battle passes make me never want to play a multiplayer game ever again"

"One of modern gaming's laziest inventions."

I'm way ahead of you on that one, article writer Mollie Taylor. I'm so far ahead of you that the light of the sun has yet to reach me. Mainly because I've never once bought a "battle pass" for a multiplayer game. And that is because I've never played a multiplayer game that had such things as "battle passes" available for purchase. And that is because I almost never play multiplayer games, period. (The last time was a couple hours of Terraria with owsf2000 about a year ago.) But then, that has only a little to do with the whole "battle pass" thing, I suppose.

That said, I have, in the past, regrettably, bought "season passes" for singleplayer games that have them. Granted, especially lately, that's usually in the form of buying the "complete" version of such games years later, which by that point just came with whatever content was in the "season pass" (as it should have from the start, along with any other DLC that may not have been included in the "season pass"), all for a relatively reasonable price (for which I then usually still waited for a 60-75-plus-percent off sale, as has been the case for over a decade now), but still. "Season passes" for singleplayer games are the dog's diseased dickhole, even so.

Of course, I'm not even sure if a "season pass" for a singleplayer game is analogous to a "battle pass" for a multiplayer game, because I can honestly say that, prior to Googling it, I wasn't really familiar with what "battle passes" even are. And now that I do (kind of) know what they are... yeah, just from a theoretical, outsider's perspective, as someone who will never, ever play a game with this stuff involved, "battle passes" appear to be some of the dumbest dumbshit to ever dirty the underwear of the modern video game industry, which they then scraped off and sold to consumers like it was chocolate. I guess "season passes" (hell, even the Wikipedia page says "Not to be confused with battle pass" right there at the top) for singleplayer games aren't quite that bad, yet. I mean, they're bad enough, but not quite to "battle pass" levels of abject asininity. But I'm sure if/when the modern video game industry finds a way to make them as bad (or worse), they will do so. At which point, I'll probably start buying singleplayer games with "season passes" the same way I currently buy multiplayer games with "battle passes."

(EDIT) Looking at this list, it doesn't appear that I am missing anything at all, whatsoever. The only one of those I've ever even tried was Path of Exile, and the less said about that, the better, probably, especially if it's using this "battle pass" dumbfuckery now. (/EDIT)