okay, so you'd rather pay the up front cost of the game, plus deal with the pay-to-win schemes, the lootcrates, etc?
Where have you been living the past decade? Realistically, game companies will just add "pay per match" on top of the pile of other MTX already existing. You think it's either get A or get B, but we will just get both.
Fair, but EA/Activision does pay to maintain the servers
No one actually asked them to do so. Community servers existed since the dawn of online gaming, and people will gladly make their own servers for the game they love. On top of that, they generally have mods and admins looking at the game and banning cheaters on the fly, way more effective than any other automated anti-cheat.
Where have you been living the past decade? Realistically, game companies will just add "pay per match" on top of the pile of other MTX already existing. You think it's either get A or get B, but we will just get both.
No one actually asked them to do so. Community servers existed since the dawn of online gaming, and people will gladly make their own servers for the game they love. On top of that, they generally have mods and admins looking at the game and banning cheaters on the fly, way more effective than any other automated anti-cheat.
fair