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You see the problem is that I like the game and there isn’t anything I’ve found that scratches the same itch. Plus game is free so it’s not like they’re actively getting money from me
They might not be getting money from you, but they're getting a lot of other things like harvesting your data, advertising (like this thread)... Always remember that free to play is a business model, not a charity.
Sure I’m advertising I guess, but I mean their primary model is agressive battle pass and skin sales which subsidize me playing. I’m not entirely sure what they’d do with my data with whatever they’re even collecting except try to make me and other players more enticed to buy skins. I’m aware free is not free but I mean saying “harvesting my data” doesn’t mean anything to me unless I know what they’re harvesting or using it for. Everyone is harvesting my data. Bots are scraping my Lemmy data right now, minimizing that is fine but there’s no way to have a vacuum sealed private existence on the internet.