They’re only “required” because this abuse relies on addiction. You have to keep playing the same game, forever, so it can keep raking you across its wallet-hooks.
When games are sold - you get what’s in it. The whole game, all at once! We only expect patches to fix the ways the product was broken. That takes a slim fraction of the people involved and gets budgeted ahead-of-time like marketing. Some games do add stuff later, but only to encourage more sales of the whole-ass game.
They’re only “required” because this abuse relies on addiction. You have to keep playing the same game, forever, so it can keep raking you across its wallet-hooks.
When games are sold - you get what’s in it. The whole game, all at once! We only expect patches to fix the ways the product was broken. That takes a slim fraction of the people involved and gets budgeted ahead-of-time like marketing. Some games do add stuff later, but only to encourage more sales of the whole-ass game.