I feel actually insane, but after spending over 1100h in War thunderm yet I cannot force myself to return. And when I thought about it, I realized, that the reason is..... battle pass.
The battle pass is the most toxic way of monetization, I have ever seen. And I am shocked by it, because it is so fucking bad, I cannot return to a game I used to love because of it.
@LukeAlmighty Yes it drives me nuts, I have to just force myself abandon some games because of the FOMO. And the value really sucks usually, I don't know about War Thunder but in Apex, 98% of it is grandma-wallpaper jpg wraps on your rifles or shitty voice lines. At least Apex is easy to get it with casual play... some other games it's like, you have to play it for a fucking living, like Halo Infinite is a fucking mess, you get so little advancement from normal play. And if there's that one cool thing I want, usually super high level on the pass, then it takes me an absurd amount of willpower to resist. I dunno, fuck.
I guess in a perfect world we'd have none of this junk, but they could at least elect to fuck us lightly and have us enjoy it. I don't ever think I've felt joy or success from getting a battle pass item, just "finally there's the fucking thing I paid for."
