Asmongold fears there\u2019s \u201cno escape\u201d from pay-to-win games in the future Twitch: AsmongoldAsmongold fears there\u2019s \u201cno escape\u201d from pay-to-win games in the future, claiming it will become the norm while games that aren\u2019t pay-to-win will become \u201cfewer and farther between.\u201d Asmon has been at the forefront of the pay-to-win debate since Lost Ark\u2019s launch in February. Not only did he claim the game would lose players for having pay-to-win raids, but he also threatened to expose the full extent of it. Shortly after, he even beckoned MMO players to band together to stop pay-to-win microtransactions from ruining games, although he admitted it felt like a \u201closing battle.\u201d During a stream on April 13, he explained why. \u201cI think pay-to-win games are the future,\u201d he said. \u201cI think more games will become pay-to-win. This is just what\u2019s going to happen. Will there always be games like Elden Ring? Yes. But it\u2019s like entropy. It will become fewer and farther between.\u201d Asmon also predicted attitudes toward it would flip. \u201cPeople will get looked down on and considered socially inferior for not interfacing with the pay-to-win systems. Social pressures will begin to exist in games to interface with these pay-to-win features.\u201d Then, when a fan said he\u2019d quit gaming if that happened, he said: \u201cWhat are you going to do instead of online gaming? Go back to real life, where it\u2019s even more pay-to-win? There\u2019s no escape! There\u2019s no escape from this.\u201d Pay-to-win features have been subject to criticism across the board. Players have found things they believe fall into the category in everything from Call of Duty to Fortnite and even Valorant, and they\u2019re not happy about it. However, pay-to-win features have been a prominent thing in the industry for several years now, and although some might say they\u2019re not the \u2018norm\u2019 yet, Asmon insists it\u2019s only a matter of time before they are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Asmongold fears there\u2019s \u201cno escape\u201d from pay-to-win games in the future Twitch: AsmongoldAsmongold fears there\u2019s \u201cno escape\u201d from pay-to-win games in the future, claiming it will become the norm while games that aren\u2019t pay-to-win will become \u201cfewer and farther between.\u201d Asmon has been at the forefront of the pay-to-win debate since Lost Ark\u2019s launch in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}