The battle pass broke CoD for me.

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

Exactly. And statements like nomotog?s are evidence to the fact that the businesses pushing ?games as services? are getting their way, and the ?new norm? has changed customer expectations for the worse.

Turning Players into Payers.

There's a fancy marketing term for that: conversion.

Aside from the usual dehumanization of the customer inherent to marketing terms, it has a whiff of cult-like indoctrination to it.