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People have been voting with their wallets; that’s how we got here.
A few recent microtransaction touchstones come to mind.

Just this month, Nexon’s new looter shooter The First Descendant buckled under an influx of new players.
“Even the Fight Lounge servers are costly to maintain.
In the past there weren’t so many specs and there wasn’t online.

Plus they didn’t have such high resolution and high definition.
Now, so many people want the game to run and be supported for a long time.
It costs money to continually update the game for that reason.”














