I'm sick and tired of what the online gaming industry is horrendously mutating into. You can't play a decent "free" or even paid subscription MMO now without some sort of money-making scheme garbage thrust upon you. Frankly, it's ruining the online gaming "scene" so to speak, and I know I'm not the only one getting tired of it.

Take shooters for example. Buy a retail, non MMO Shooter game such as Call of Duty or Battlefield and for the most part you won't be hassled to purchase stupid cosmetic or gameplay improving items. Maybe a map pack here and there for some actual content, but they don't (for the most part) sell gear that will completely ruin the game for everybody else that doesn't pay $20 to buy some pixels when they could be buying an entire game.

I've mostly been seeing this in one of my long-time favorite shooters: Battlefield Heroes. BFH used to be a really, really, really good online shooter that you could play entirely for free. EA then proceeded to introduce "uber" and "super" weapons into the game that dealt tons and tons more damage and made gameplay almost uncompetitive. Eventually so many people have bought these uber and super weapons that you literally cannot enjoy yourself without breaking down and spending $10-20 to purchase a few of these weapons. I personally have not bought any yet, and I don't plan to.

I've decided that if I want to keep my sanity and my money, I'm going to have to upgrade my computer so that I can actually play the decent shooters that I've purchased and downloaded at an acceptable performance. As I said, I'm sick and tired of the money-milking idiocy that the MMO industry has become.

My two cents have been spent.