I've heard it said: Games used to be about making the computer do what the user wanted, now games are about making users do what the computer wants. Rather, g

I've heard it said: Games used to be about making the computer do what the user wanted, now games are about making users do what the computer wants. Rather, games used to be about packing in features players and the developers thought would be cool and fun, and then the game would be sold for a flat price. Now games are about extracting as much money as possible with a minimum of interesting game mechanics and a maximum of psychological tricks. It's not true of all modern games, but is definitely a growing trend.