I dont think this game is anything like those free to play mobile game systems. Also boycotting good games isnt going to stop that evolution.

This game doesnt interest me because i am not into Lord of the Ring games. Not because of its MT or DLCs. Iv played some amazing games and some really bad games with MTs. A good game will always be a good game.

I'm playing Final Fantasy Brave Exvius for over 1 year without expending 1 cent and I constantly are in top 15k on the server, in front of several paying guys.

Well you can ignore them, but the game will be not as fun due to them. You know, what normally took an hour of say grinding now takes 3 hours. The better rate drop chests are real money only and the ingame ones have horrible drop rates. Stuff like that.

Sure it might not have a stamina system where you can only play so long before you need to purchase more time, but you can bet your ass that it will make getting in-game currency or finding those legendary/epic items much much harder than before. Inticing one to spend real money. So what normally would be a say 50 hour game to 100% and get perfect equipment, ect, now takes one 200 hours to do the exact same thing because they reduced the loot drop rate.

Yes, but I bet you spend more time playing than them. I've played F2P games before. I know how it works. Paying say $10 can cut like 10 hours of mindless grinding. So instead of having to spend hours on a saturday doing a mission over and over again, you can drop $10. Or instaed of taking out your phone every few hours at work to use your stamina and not waste it, you can drop $10 and not have to worry about it all week. I woudl say $10 is worth the peace of mind of ignoring a mindless grind all week in a F2P game.

Thus why I quit playing those games. They are just collectathons. All your doing is trying ot collect them all essentailly. Sure there is some gameplay, card game, raids, ect. But htat just a distraction from you trying to get every unit, card, character, ect. THen they come out with new things ever couple months that make all your prior things basically worhtless.

*Nails down the HDD's to the desk*

I'm glad we have a client/store/company like CDP with GoG and in other cases, clients with an offline mode and games that do not require an always online connection to function. I don't game physically anymore on PC, but I can still play the majority of my games offline without any hassle. 

That said, there are more AAA companies out there that are looking towards games as more of a service to benefit them both profit and control wise, with us being left with zero benefits and upsides. It's rather sad that the games industry is without it's own watchdog system, where said companies can and will be punished for taking more anti consumer stances. I've seen other industries where said companies end up suffering from either the law or general loss of profit, while the games inudstry solely relies on one big company suing another (for their own benefit) or everyone getting their collective minds together and stopping full time support for a brief moment in time. 

Do you back up all your steam files and games on a seperate HDD? I know it sounds paranoid, but eventually valve won't be such a friendly company. It happened to Activision back in the 90's. It'll happen to Valve one day too. 

Well you can ignore them, but the game will be not as fun due to them. You know, what normally took an hour of say grinding now takes 3 hours. The better rate drop chests are real money only and the ingame ones have horrible drop rates. Stuff like that.

Depends, if it's a large ass file like GTA, Witcher 3 or Ark, then yeah I'll keep those backed up as I don't want to spend hours downloading them again. I do this with mods for Fallout, Skyrim, Witcher etc, that use Nexus mod manager. Some mods end up being removed or unsupported, so I definitely save those on another drive.

I don't really see Valve pulling an Activision and getting away with it. EA and Ubisoft I can see doing it, as it's their own games on their own store and they have their fingers in multiple markets.

I thought the Witcher 3 did a good job of it because of all the interesting sidequests and exploration.