• Well yes, Companies want/need to make money, it’s how they pay salaries.
  • No-one is forced to spend even one sestertius, or part thereof without choosing to.
  • The Core game doesn’t need any additional paid-for content to work without issue.
  • There’s a lot of free (other than player’s time) stuff available throughout all Chapters.
  • BattlePass content changes per Chapter - and yes, prior chapters have free stuff that does not appear to rotate back to availabiltity - same as Twitch content for so many other games including Conan Exiles (am almost sure I saw #36 (Roaring Beltch) in one of the Bazaars rotations (but don’t care) - there’s a ton of ‘loyalty content’ for most games that’s once-off and time-dependant.
  • ‘Chores’? - we’ll pop that up there when next going resource hunting then shall we :rofl:

Happily no game I have has yet to have tried forcing me to play their game or buy their content. I have a choice - like I don’t think I have ever completed all the Journey items, and likely never will - unless I choose to. One of the players on my servers has not bought any further content other than the core game, and they still play occasionally as they choose.

Would be interested to hear which games (still) out there, years on from their original 1.0 release and excluding Updates and Patches (and that you still play), give away free content?