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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!

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[โ€“] Awoo@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You even revealed it yourself - you called them "loyal dogs" because they are your class enemy. People without disposable income who play for free find that the game enshitifies over time, so they either go play something else (so there's no real incentive to stay behind in a shitty game and advocate to make it better) or stay behind to resent the dogs that paid to ruin the game.

You've got what I said backwards. This behaviour increases as time goes on. It would decrease if those people were leaving.

[โ€“] queermunist@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Or you got what I said backwards. This behavior increases because the people who don't behave like loyal dogs all leave, because there's nothing keeping them there. This would cause brand loyalty to increase.

I don't think the free players are actually that loyal. It's the ones with money invested that behave like dogs.