Exotic shards has got to be a joke, right?

@HappyHourSumwur

I was reading some "journalist" on the subject of the current Microsoft/xbox meltdown and he described it as, excuse the paraphrasing, the "excesses of late stage capitalism." Now I'm not exactly a card-carrying socialist (not yet anyway), but all of this stuff seems to be part of a larger picture of pure, naked corporate greed. You can do any sh*tty thing you want as long as you hide behind the "shareholder value" schtick. Like somehow Satya Nadella (or Andrew Wilson for that matter) are gonna be out of a job if they don't screw over a certain percentage of employees (and customers) per quarter? So yeah, Exotic Shards. Why not? Who's gonna stop 'em?

@reconzero But who is stupid enough to fall for this kind of stuff?

@reconzero I see buying stuff on a free to play game as a way of saying thanks for a good product in the hopes that it contributes to it continuing. When you pay up front the risk is yours, when it is free to pay the risk is on the developer. Needless to say, I have not spent real money on Apex since the first Battlepass I bought when I started playing in Season 8.