What's going on is that A Thinking Ape is getting way more aggressive with the Pay To Win.
I know some people will defend this attitude and come at me with the classic "but they need money to function" as if this company didn't already get thousands monthly, from multiple games and high spenders. How can you claim ATA isn't being greedy when it gets progressively harder to get things for free on this game? And even when you pay, they will find loopholes to try making you spend more (see the Myth Fullfilment Story Pass case)?
Most games have in-game purchases, but they will balance that out with content for F2P players who would rather grind a bit more to reach their goals than spend real money on a game. But it's getting impossible to reach goals on PIMD without spending real cash, and that's where the greed comes in and the balance that should exist is gone. The developers noticed how the in-game economy is completely fucked up (this is another discussion) and are taking advantage of that to make things even less attainable for people who intend to play for free. Every new avatar collection that comes out, every XC, the small changes here and there like the nerfed Timer Boxes, and now a hunt tier that requires almost 4K more drops than a normal 13-day hunt - but with half the duration... What the actual f*ck. It just shows that it will keep getting worse and soon we won't even be able to collect avatars.
It wasn't like this a couple years ago. The game would still offer advantages for those who pay, but it wasn't so unbalanced and greedy. I know there are people who will keep wasting time kissing their butts, even though with each day that passes they are working less and less against the interests of the community and more towards their own profit. It's getting disgusting.
