<story><title>I hate what video games have become</title><url>https://ivanca.tumblr.com/post/679923341152468992/i-hate-what-video-games-have-become</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bootloop</author><text>This is absurd. So you also don&amp;#x27;t use any software products which are a) free to use or b) habe a free tier?</text></item><item><author>OtomotO</author><text>As a (non game) developer, I can say, thay free to play is instantly dead on arrival for me.&lt;p&gt;The moment something is known to become or becomes free to play is the moment I lose all interest.&lt;p&gt;The dishonesty in the system itself is what makes this unbearable for me.&lt;p&gt;Developers need to eat, Managers need to eat, Marketeers need to eat... And sometimes psychologists doing evil mindtricks and supporting gambling addictions need to eat too... Or buy a lambo, or two.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t care whether it&amp;#x27;s only cosmetic or not, I have and will never support that business model</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mmcdermott</author><text>Not the GP, but I have a hard pass rule on F2P as well. My reasons for it are two-fold. The biggest one is that I just don&amp;#x27;t want to deal with it. I spend my entire day &amp;quot;doing business.&amp;quot;  Games are a place away from all that and I don&amp;#x27;t want the F2P shop to intrude on my time away from the rat race. The other reason is that in the vast majority of scenarios, F2P creates incentives on the developer to create games that feature things I don&amp;#x27;t like (grinding and lootboxes being examples).</text></comment>
<story><title>I hate what video games have become</title><url>https://ivanca.tumblr.com/post/679923341152468992/i-hate-what-video-games-have-become</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bootloop</author><text>This is absurd. So you also don&amp;#x27;t use any software products which are a) free to use or b) habe a free tier?</text></item><item><author>OtomotO</author><text>As a (non game) developer, I can say, thay free to play is instantly dead on arrival for me.&lt;p&gt;The moment something is known to become or becomes free to play is the moment I lose all interest.&lt;p&gt;The dishonesty in the system itself is what makes this unbearable for me.&lt;p&gt;Developers need to eat, Managers need to eat, Marketeers need to eat... And sometimes psychologists doing evil mindtricks and supporting gambling addictions need to eat too... Or buy a lambo, or two.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t care whether it&amp;#x27;s only cosmetic or not, I have and will never support that business model</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>midasuni</author><text>Back in the 90s shareware was common, you’d get the first level of Duke Nukem, but to get the rest you had to pay&lt;p&gt;That’s closer to the “free tier” stuff, and a very different model to modern “freenium” games.</text></comment>