Yeah, this. 

Deluxe edition early access, usually 3-7 days. They're literally not creating anything of value, all they're doing is delaying the game by 3-7 days for people that won't pay more than $60-$70. Pretty funny when it happens to "day-one" gamepass games.

"We could release our game on the 5th September for $70... but how about we release it on the 5th of September for $100 and then let everyone else play on the 8th of September"

It's just creating fake value to squeeze out more money from the consumer. It's an abhorrent practice.

Paying to play Online.
And Nintendo not including a charger for 3DS in Europe.

Your digital library on PS4 & BXO carried over to PS5 & XS.
And if you buy the old gen version of a game they (usually) give yoyu the next gen version as well for free.

In the rare instance that they don't, you can still playthe old gen version on the new gen systems throigh backwards compatibility.

I'm pretty sure Nintendo will do the same thing for their next gen system.

Star Citizen.

You physical copies will eventually fail too, y'all.

I disagree with almost everything listed so far because while many those things are shit (paid online play, MTX, "deluxe" digital pre orders, etc) the consumer knows what they are getting. If they see value paying 10 USD for a skin, that's on them. I personally only roll my eyes, but I don't think it's a scam if they tell you what you're getting

For me it's worse when things caught you off-guard, when things are sold in clear bad-faith or when the sense of presumed consumer fairness is broken. Exemple:

Shutting down digital stores. They should be open for as long the companies exist. If they don't want to sell games anymore, there should should forever keep the option of download your game and additional content

Low quality controllers (or any peripheral), created with obvious obsolescence in mind. Breaking twice or thrice in 7 years, so you buy a new overpriced controller again as many times as you need to keep playing your own library

I think a case can be made for Gachas and loot boxes, because they are something more akin to casinos and are extremely dangerous for kids and teens because they can be rather addictive, so I'm either convinced they should be regulated to not be played for legaly minors or outright banned as an industry practice

Releasing obvious "early access" broken games without telling you you're essentially doing free QA for the developers. They fuck even CHARGE you for doing the QA and tame months and months to your game be in an acceptable stage. The only saving grace for this is reviewers and streamers can test the game for you so you can decide whether it's a game in a playable state before buying

Online fees for consoles, adding paywalls to services they were previously free and whose costs aren't that high to justify the increasing prices (if any price at all).
Cloud gaming, no ownership of titles plus performance limited to your internet provider and the servers of the publisher/whoever hosts it.
EA Sports.

Everything is eventually done in life. Even books you don't want to open too much when they are a 100 years old. Most VHS are now not usable, floppy disks will eventually be done as well. But they will still last 30 or 40 years. I mean if a console life is 5 to 7 years....can I please maybe just buy that game once every 2 or 3 life cycles? 

I hope what that guy above said for Nintendo is true, because their digital library sucks if it either doesn't transfer or we have to keep buying. I mean, I many times do ai got to buy Mario bros? Not that I would, but they release it for each system.

Lack of backwards compatibility. It’s been going on since the beginning of the industry, but remains its biggest problem.
I hate that as soon as I update my hardware, I’m back to nothing.

Hopefully this changes next generation with Nintendo. Steam and Apple have been updating all games for future hardware for the whole existence of their platforms. Traditionally, Nintendo changed architectures and such, and it made the backwards compatibility infeasible, but now the technology is there - no more excuses.

I’m also not a fan of putting everything into subscriptions. This trend is one of the worst I’ve ever seen. But I guess it beats ads.

Xbox Live Gold and PlayStation Plus (after it was required for online gaming).

In defence of digital games being shat on above.

As someone who physically lost my entire physically ps3 and Xbox 360 library along with my two consoles I can say I prefer digital. I prefer that my physical playstation can cease to exist and I can have everything back up and running and there are a whole host of other beifets, like not needing space, no cleaning disks, you value what you download more than picking something off the shelf, you tend to wait for sales, you're not getting ripped off by gamestop to buy new games when funds are low, you think twice about buying day one based on hype etc. That said, I lost my PS3 digital games with the console too and didn't get them back with PS4 and Nintendo makes me buy Super Mario Bros 3 every time I buy a new system or pay for it through subscription now and have removed access to games onto of that. There definitely is some downsides but they've been and continue to be fixed as we progress, I just like to see Sony and MS do a no questions asked 2 hour or even 1 hour refund.