I'd be down for something like this on a PVE realm where your own actions are typically what lead to your death. I'm less enthusiastic on a PvP realm with permadeath but I understand the current version isn't for me and that's okay too.
It isn't early access if anyone can buy it and they're charging money for it, it's a released product.
They just released the minimum viable product even though the actual devs probably told them not to.
The situation kind of reminds me of titty streamers on Twitch. Everybody seemingly "hates" them yet they make an absolute killing regardless, because the silent majority think it's perfectly fine.
I'm currently in the market for something like a Chromebook but I'm not buying one because of stuff like this.
Kinda.
So too do far too many other games.
Usually because they want to sell you cosmetics and other junk and the only way to ensure you don't just mod it in for free is to make the game phone home and verify itself constantly.
Goodbye Drop, nice knowing you.
Watch Corsair add maximum rainbow unicorn vomit while cutting every cost and quality aspect they can. Independent my arse.
All those "conservative people" who don't support "the bad stuff" but then turn a blind eye to these kind of things make me sick.
That "play-to-earn" system ended up just being a means for people to exploit others in poorer counties to grind countless hours in the game for a pittance.
There's no value in cross-game sharing of assets, nether for the developer nor the players.
When the game dies so does anything of value related to the assets themselves. The blockchain will probably die too. Someone one day resurrecting the game is a pretty flimsy reason at best to justify all of the negatives that come with blockchain in games, because 2 decades later it wouldn't matter anyway.
Please don't treat posting to Lemmy like a job and honestly do we really need a bunch of reposts anyway? I don't think so.
I'd talk to your SO and have them have that conversation with them.
It's okay to have boundaries in your house regardless of whether they are an adult or not.