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To me, whenever I have to put in more cash after the initial purchase I pretty much feel exploited. Not saying I never buy DLC but often what you get in DLC is nowhere near comparable to the hard work put in by mod developers who aren't getting paid at all (eg HOI IV). I think things will just keep getting worse unless governments put a stop to it.
You're probably right there. Unfortunately, at least in the US, our government is still largely controlled by people who were born before the cordless phone was invented, or damn near it. They're still learning how to send an email with an attachment, so it'll be a while before they're made to care about microtransactions.
True. It's not like microtransactions are the biggest issue with our world to begin with, I just see them as a symptom of the complete drive towards nightmare rentier capitalism where nobody will own anything except the hyper rich and we'll all have to pay subscription fees for every little service in our lives.