Its a great monetization model actually thats why its so popular. It makes the publishers and owners a ton of money.

Its not good for the consumer, but the consumer forks out the money for it anyway. Economic principles at work.

If everytime a battle pass came out the entire playerbase abandoned the game, battlepasses would not exist. The opposite is true. And I work in the games industry, so have seen the numbers with my own eyes on how effective and lucrative the battlepass systems are, and almost everytime they are both lucrative and incite rage in the player base.

But money will win every time. People have crusaded in forums and social media trying to shame those that participate and one day people will learn that shaming people online is about as effective as peeing into a hurricane and then wondering why you are getting wet.

I don’t care about exclusivity. I run private servers. Whether or not joe and alice have a sword that I also have doesn’t impact me one iota. So I don’t care about that. If they brought past DLC items from the battlepass into the bazaar I’d not say a word, because it doesn’t affect me and I have 100 other things in my life to worry about that are not about a video game I spend my leisure time in to have fun and get away from the real world with.