bender
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I try to avoid games with battle passes because of my personality. I collected everything in Overwatch and by and large, the system was extremely fair and didn't often require you to spend money outside of the league costumes (meh) and league MVP skins (cool, expensive, but dropped really infrequently). ActiBlizz shutting off Overwatch when Overwatch 2 launched pissed me off so I haven't even tried it. No idea how exploitative it is, but I'm happy I'm not going to find out.
I also dropped Rocket League when they went from one scummy monetization system to another, both of which were exploitative.
I am a little worried about Diablo IV (supposedly the battle passes are only for cosmetics) and SF6. I was fine with how SF5 was monetized as there was no randomness to acquiring character customizations or stages. I also don't mind spending money on GAAS as long as things are fairly priced, not limited time and don't require grinds.
I also dropped Rocket League when they went from one scummy monetization system to another, both of which were exploitative.
I am a little worried about Diablo IV (supposedly the battle passes are only for cosmetics) and SF6. I was fine with how SF5 was monetized as there was no randomness to acquiring character customizations or stages. I also don't mind spending money on GAAS as long as things are fairly priced, not limited time and don't require grinds.