No, but part of it is personal taste I think. I played Runescape when Old School was the only school, dipped into ESO, and burned myself out hard on Destiny. Since then, I just hate the business model. It feels like devs all collectively asked themselves why WoW made so much money and started emulating it to the extreme. Now, as others have said, it feels like I’m paying them to allow me to do work for them. It comes off as a predatory model. MMO’s used to feel like a labor of love, both on the dev side and the player side. Now they just feel like casinos with chores.

Now, I’m clearly in some kind of minority because those games are making bank, so it may just be that they’re not for me anymore. All I know is that I feel dirty after playing them now. Like I just got scammed with a big ol’ shit-eating grin on my face the whole time. Like I looked directly into the gaping jaws of capitalism as it financially fucked me and said, “Yes, daddy, please more.” I could resist sinking money into premium currency, but the seasons. Yearly expansions. Pay-walled “legacy” content. Each one another cool, exclusive, FOMO-inducing skin for the same greed.