Why do people always expect games to be this 10 year world where they’ll never need another game? Why do they even WANT that?

You want live service games, there are hundreds. Play Helldivers 2. Not every game needs that stuff, or aims for that stuff, and that doesn’t make the game « incomplete » or a scam, or whatever other nonsense.

@thelinuxEXP Video games are expensive and we're at the end-game of consumerism where everyone wants to stretch their money as much as possible. Longativity is part of that investment, right?

"Every Game Matters To Us Even If Its Terrible So They Should Either Last Forever Or Die Playable" does come off as super ambitious, even if I love Ross Scott and the work he's done to acknowledge a problem with a part of the industry.

I dropped Destiny 2 because I was pretty much feeling finished with it. There was a lot of money put into it and I'm trying not to feel the guilt of not squeezing every cent spent on it because I still had fun, fun with friends, etc. That's more or less why feeling like I can come back to it some day (maybe when they add support for their anticheat :P) matters somewhat. It's a materialistic answer, but one that I do believe supports the idea behind why its all considered a long con.