I'll concede, I was a tad imprecise. What I meant was to be able to get more than the bare minimum, as it used to be - one has to pay. There's no way to earn a battle pass, as it has been.
And don't get me wrong. I'll probably miss the game. There's really nothing like it, with movement mechanics. Pretty consistent weapons (no arbitrary rebalancing all the time). I like the variation that's been introduced, with different LTMs - on top of regular pubs and ranked. Game has it's flaws, but if those were important - I'd probably left ages ago. Also, I'm not good enough (or have time enough) to get into cheater lobbies, so I've never really felt the cheater problem.
My issue here, is just the monetization of a game that I love. How they've been doing a Vader on this now twice, counting also the EA Pro change. "Pray I don't alter the deal any further...".
With some of the events and items being staggeringly expensive, and now a "double priced BP", it's just the straw that broke the camel's back for me.
While I know many devs and artists at Respawn have been doing hard work, the game has in many ways also stagnated into another cash grab. A few new maps here and there, good maps. A few changes to old maps here and there, and good changes. But servers are basically the same as they've been, for better or worse. And there are tons and tons and tons and tons of cosmetics. Some good cosmetics, but it seems that a lot of effort goes into just filling the loot table - and the number of white and blue items I've gotten, really doesn't inspire me to follow along with the change. I have no trust in what's going on.
But I'll miss the game. The game's fun. I just can't connect with the business side of things anymore.
At any rate, thanks for a very polite answer! 🙂
