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Yeah I've mellowed out significantly since then as well. I think a lot of this pocket of gaming culture was hyper focused on the consumerism side of gaming, while I care a lot more about the self expression and art stuff now. So micro-transactions, reviews, DLC, game/hardware price, sales, etc don't really matter to me anymore. I used to feel like it was of paramount ethical concern. For example, I used to have strong feelings about 2D games needing to be priced cheaper than 3D open world games and that this should effect the perceived quality of the game, which is so silly to me now. Now I have a "how interesting will this game be in 20 years when it's basically free, and for what reasons?" perspective, and I just don't have it in me to argue about pretty much anything like I used to, even though my opinions are probably stronger now. I'm just happy enough that people care about things enough to have a view themselves now.