They need to make money - i get that, but better solutions can be found where they take advantage of modern content distribution while creating gaming experiences that have replay value v what they been doing for years now which is straight up lazy (building around pay to win/funneling traffic to the in-game store, re-adding and removing known features, etc)
IMO only change taking place is if gamers take some type of financial stand to force their hand
I think these companies make enough money just by selling what people paid for. What's happening now is greed.
It's always interesting hearing companies telling consumers that they need to make money, so they intentionally cripple technology that they supposedly spent so much money to develop meanwhile real wages haven't risen in decades.
For example, to move off games for a minute. Amazon created the Kindle and issues its own fucking file format that is not compatible with any other e-reader or ebook reading software unless you convert it to an epub or a mobi, two open file formats.
Only reason they do that is to force you to buy a fucking Kindle to use with their Amazon store and prevent you from sharing books. It's the same fucking shit. No new features, nothing.
We are living in an era of record wealth generation for the wealthiest people in the world due computer technology and all they do is cripple it to make people pay to use it. They make products worse to make money. That's crazy.
It started with software in the 90s with crippleware, and the concept expanded to everything from games to got damn ebooks.
Consumers and workers aren't organized, therefore we have no choice but to accept this shit. Corporations are organized and they pay millions upon millions of dollars to prevent us from being organized against their thievery.