How much of the content is locked behind $40-$60 "seasons"/expansions though? Maybe it's merely a failure of their marketing, but I always got the impression that if I wanted to play everything I'd be shilling out over $100/year.
If you want to play new content (beyond a teaser/first mission) the day it launches, that requires buying the expansion, but similar to the halo days the expansions get added to the base game after 3 years, so right now, for $0, you could play through two expansions worth of content, give or take. Campaigns, raids, pvp, non-raid group content, etc.
That’s not to defend to the monetization scheme or their live service model. It’s a big part of what drove me away from the game (actively played/paid for maybe 3 of the game’s 10 years)
if I wanted to play everything I'd be shilling out over $100/year.
Like most MMOs, yeah. The sick part is their MTX on top/nickel and diming the expansions into more things to buy (seasons, dungeons, cosmetics as mtx, etc)
But none of this really matters. What did you think of the OP?
It's lacking context, but the ideas that a person in suffering will seek a purpose for that suffering, and that absent personal knowledge, a person will listen to someone else for an answer rather than seeking that answer themselves, but none of this is revelatory. It's simply using flowery language in order to dress up things we all (presumably) already know.
How much of the content is locked behind $40-$60 "seasons"/expansions though? Maybe it's merely a failure of their marketing, but I always got the impression that if I wanted to play everything I'd be shilling out over $100/year.
If you want to play new content (beyond a teaser/first mission) the day it launches, that requires buying the expansion, but similar to the halo days the expansions get added to the base game after 3 years, so right now, for $0, you could play through two expansions worth of content, give or take. Campaigns, raids, pvp, non-raid group content, etc.
That’s not to defend to the monetization scheme or their live service model. It’s a big part of what drove me away from the game (actively played/paid for maybe 3 of the game’s 10 years)
Like most MMOs, yeah. The sick part is their MTX on top/nickel and diming the expansions into more things to buy (seasons, dungeons, cosmetics as mtx, etc)
But none of this really matters. What did you think of the OP?
It's lacking context, but the ideas that a person in suffering will seek a purpose for that suffering, and that absent personal knowledge, a person will listen to someone else for an answer rather than seeking that answer themselves, but none of this is revelatory. It's simply using flowery language in order to dress up things we all (presumably) already know.
True, I forget everyone here was an enlightened genius and definitely not disturbed retards who could benefit from introspection
Oh wait, the guy who turned this into an argument is a massive Q anon mongoloid? Damn maybe not as enlightened as you’d like to think of yourselves