No it's not, the community is just paying for it collectively! The players deserve a game that's better because they're still paying for it as a group instead of as individuals! Stop individualising yourselves so much that you can't even critique a product anymore!
yeah, people reference a particular game being free as if that's the company going easy on us out of the milk of human kindness and not the corporation realising that's the only path they have to maximising revenue (most likely off of whales)
I don't even really care if it's whales or not in a lot of cases. I actually think the inherent anti-whale thing is driving individualism and causing players to fight among themselves. If they united with the whales they'd have a stronger voice as one community.
A lot of these people drawing the distinction between the whales and themselves are paying players anyway. It's a tool of division. Splitting the playerbase into fighting among themselves instead of directing their criticisms and desires in a united way towards the developers. A lot of it reminds me of the identity-based infighting in the working class and how it divides them up into bickering among themselves instead of directing their, ahem... criticisms... at the bourgeoisie. It's not 1:1 but many of the behaviours are similar just in a consumerist space.
plus a lot of so-called "whales" are just people with average or below average incomes who are vulnerable to the predatory practices these free-to-play game companies spend immense time and resources to develop
the idea that they are all rich people is largely a myth
i'm not talking about whales as a player, i'm talking about whales from the perspective of the company making it free to play, i think f2p is inherently predatory so i don't play them