this post was submitted on 07 Sep 2023
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Late Stage Capitalism

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When COD Mobile (both Global and Garena) released in October 2019 - less than 4 years ago - it had 50 Tiers in the battle pass. I came back and it's 200 tiers now, which is insane.

It's especially shocking to see as one of the OG players of CODM - I played it since launch - to see firsthand just how desperate capitalism has become at squeezing the proles of as much money as possible at every possible level including something as mundane as gaming.

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[โ€“] Halasham@dormi.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The EXCLUSIVE matter of concern for all private enterprises is profit. Whatever it is that they do is at-best secondary to that goal and more likely tertiary behind not being successfully sued for their practices or even quaternary behind that and excluding meaningful competition/having control over the industry.

This. It's about time gamers realize this horrible reality we can't escape from no matter how we vote our wallets UNLESS capitalism is abolished.