{"id":44,"date":"2025-10-14T04:44:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T04:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericstai.soisweb.uwm.edu\/wordpress\/?p=44"},"modified":"2025-10-14T04:44:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T04:44:41","slug":"pay-to-win-is-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericstai.soisweb.uwm.edu\/wordpress\/2025\/10\/14\/pay-to-win-is-normal\/","title":{"rendered":"Pay to Win Is&#8230;. Normal?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is the pay to win model just going to be the new normal? Every new game I come across seems to do more promoting of a battle pass rather than fixing the game itself. This is however, the new normal. Gaming studios are simply making too much money off of this model and c&#8217;mon can we blame them. If you were able to pull in an extra 300 million a year for a lost customer or two you wouldn&#8217;t bat an eye either. Hopefully we can gain a few positives out of this model such as the base game becoming cheaper, or keeping DLC&#8217;s cosmetic only. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"276\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/ericstai.soisweb.uwm.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/money.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45\" style=\"width:501px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the pay to win model just going to be the new normal? Every new game I come across seems to do more promoting of a battle pass rather than fixing the game itself. This is however, the new normal. Gaming studios are simply making too much money off of this model and c&#8217;mon can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericstai.soisweb.uwm.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericstai.soisweb.uwm.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericstai.soisweb.uwm.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericstai.soisweb.uwm.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericstai.soisweb.uwm.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ericstai.soisweb.uwm.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"https:\/\/ericstai.soisweb.uwm.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericstai.soisweb.uwm.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericstai.soisweb.uwm.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericstai.soisweb.uwm.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}