Yeah it's fucking crazy how I envision the meaning of "horse armor dlc" now and it doesn't even make me blink, actually I find such a concept pretty inoffensive now but that is only because these fucking manipulators have been slowly pushing and pushing gradually worse unethically gross shit throughout the years.
It really makes you wonder what exactly they will come up with in the next 10 years to make this current garbage feel less offensive
Last gen people bitched about Street Fighter IV selling 4 costumes for $5 and now they are $4 for 1 costume in SFV.
Season passes started with Call of Duty and Battlefield and both outlined the DLC roadmap. Now they are in every game and you don't even know what the fuck they will include.
First we had loot boxes in F2P games.
Then we had loot boxes in paid games but they were limited to cosmetics
Then we had lootboxes in paid single player games and they included gameplay effecting content (Shadow of War) (and are in addition to fucking season passes)
Now we have lootboxes in paid MP games with gameplay effecting content
Even if you don't buy the boxes the game is balanced to make you frustrated and envious at other players, to make you want to spend money to speed up the grind. It makes the game worse for everyone.
Loot boxes have infiltrated everything in the last year or so and it fucking sucks. The pubs will keep pushing it and the defense force is making it easier for them.
What's more, if the game is unbalanced, frustrating and received poorly people will quickly leave it for something else. Then you're just playing against the P2W guys who will destroy you. So pretty quickly you have a $60 game with empty servers and even the P2W guys who spent hundreds of dollars will have moved on to some other skinner box.