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Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA
And it doesn't exactly seem like I'm the Lone Ranger when it comes to that approach to gaming. I may have given the reasons behind it more thought, or typed more words about it, than the average player but my motivations seem pretty in-line with a huge chunk of the audience.
The reason those modes have become a cash cow for devs is because they work. I'm an anomaly 'cause I'm a NMS guy (No Money Spent) but the motivation for me is the same as it is for the whales.
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The modes work because people pay for them, and somehow people forget that these games aren't created for charity. They are cash cows to very large corporations. I'm sure there are plenty of programmers that work there for the joy of working on a game they loved, but in the end it is the corporate entity that dictates what time and effort can be put into various things, and they are going to be way more concerned about the biggest profit center than the feature that always sucks yet people still buy the games anyway.