I hear ya. I am getting real tired of the paywalls and the rent seeking in something I paid for. It used to be confined to free to play games but it has gradually started to creep into fully paid AAA stuff now and that’s just unacceptable to me.
I grew up playing Gran Turismo 3, and that was an absolute blast. I had a Miata in the game that I put a lot of time into, and it taught me about how car tuning worked (to a certain degree, anyway). Fast forward a couple decades (ow, my back) - my wife (then-gf) had gotten me a PS5, and I immediately bought GTA7 at full price… Only to be met with an absolute assload of microtransactions.
It bothered me so much that I ended up going out and buying a PS2 off FB marketplace and digging out GTA3 from my parents’ collection of games from my youth (they had sold the PS2 but nothing else from that stuff 🤷♂️).
I hear ya. I am getting real tired of the paywalls and the rent seeking in something I paid for. It used to be confined to free to play games but it has gradually started to creep into fully paid AAA stuff now and that’s just unacceptable to me.
I grew up playing Gran Turismo 3, and that was an absolute blast. I had a Miata in the game that I put a lot of time into, and it taught me about how car tuning worked (to a certain degree, anyway). Fast forward a couple decades (ow, my back) - my wife (then-gf) had gotten me a PS5, and I immediately bought GTA7 at full price… Only to be met with an absolute assload of microtransactions.
It bothered me so much that I ended up going out and buying a PS2 off FB marketplace and digging out GTA3 from my parents’ collection of games from my youth (they had sold the PS2 but nothing else from that stuff 🤷♂️).