Some games allow people with no life, no obligations and no money to gain an advantage.
Other games allow people with job, kids and wife to gain an advantage.
Play the game that suits you and your preference and stop preaching.
These games exist only because it is financially viable to make them and that is because there are enough people who still like to be part of an online community in the evening when kids are sleeping but no longer have the massive amount of time to commit.
The market speaks louder than a minority of people of a differing disposition on social media and neither group is in the right or wrong.
The gaming market is what the consumers make it to be through the use of their wallet and as per usual it is dictated by the financially solvent demographic.
There is no moral superior high ground and there is no right or wrong there are only game companies filling an appearant need and the individual consumers choise.
Of couse people with lots of spare time want that to be the dominating factor over income. But like a goblin reminded me recently; “time is money friend!” - and they are in essence just two different currencies. You need time to make money and you need money to spend your time. The balance is individual for each person, but this entire discussion comes from a very pre-adolescent view of the world.
Vote with your wallet and feel free to voice your opinion but there is no need to claim moral high ground or right and wrong based on your personal disposition - you are not fighting for a better future for “gaming”, you are simply advocating what is either best for you or fits better within your preferences; as you have every right to!
Sincerely a currently unemployed gamer husband and dad of two who has neither time nor money.
