Yeah, I wasn’t too happy with the twitch drops thing but I caved in and created an account so I could get them. I feel like I let the 10 USD DLC slide because 70 USD total seems to be becoming the standard price for games anyway. They’re not totally innocent of the things I dislike but they delivered such a phenomenal game that I can overlook it.
Like everyone else is saying, I think the standard for primarily single player video games should be releasing a finished product for a reasonable price. I’m sure I don’t speak for just myself but I’m super tired of things like: unreasonably priced tiered purchase options, cash shops/microtransactions, battle/season passes, twitch drops, preorder bonuses, and just any kind of FOMO in general. It feels like a lot of modern video games are only designed to siphon as much money from the consumer as possible with the least amount of work possible. A lot of these games have no soul and they’re unfinished and broken on release. I just don’t even bother with them anymore.
This happened to me the other day when I had a twitch ad blocker extension enabled. You have to disable the add on to login.
Short answer is because of capitalism and greed in general.
They also have that twitch drop garbage that’s become popular lately to boost viewership.
There’s only so much you can do to stop toxicity in online games. Most games have consequences in the form of temporary or permanent bans. There’s also features like being able to mute or block other players. Unfortunately toxicity is just part of online competitive games when you play with random people.