Play doom2 instead

To be fair, you could say that about most games.

Or, play Helldivers 2 instead, where although you will constantly be bouncing between "It's so over!" and "We are so back!" every few months, you can earn the premium currency by just playing the game. You actually make a not-half-bad amount.

And, AND. You get to act out your favorite Starship Troopers/Terminator wars fantasies (also recently added: seafood is back on the menu, boys) by being able to quite literally rain hell from above, (almost) any time you want.

I shit you not every time an Alpha Commander runs I hear "IT'S AFRAID" in my head

(disclaimer: I still like DRG, I just prefer one over the other. Don't nobody start nothin'.)

We're rich!

We're rich!

We're rich!

People shit their pants over the White Raven earrings (for those unfamiliar they were a rare drop behind HARD 1.0 content that few bothered to actually get) getting released for the rising like 5 years ago. Multiple people talking about how this materially made them worse off

Meanwhile I pointed out that any veteran player had saved over $1k (even more now) with that discount on their subscription that they still get, so if some of the rest of us want access to those old items they could fuck off OR trade their discount in for that item to be exclusive. They didn't like that

2.0 probably wouldn’t have happened if people didn’t stick around for 1.x, combined with the declining player count for FF11. The real perk for sticking out the last 3 paid months of 1.x wasn’t the legacy tattoo, it was the subscription discount.

That's not occams razor. It's a wild conspiracy.

Ok bro

These limited things are always just time based exclusives, publishers aren't gonna leave money on the table.