Ill start with always online capability allowing developers to ship unfinished games and then patch them overtime to the state they should have been in on day 1 at launch.

Why are microtransactions bad for the players and the industry in general?

THE WORST OF VIDEOGAMES TREND..?

There is so manny but like men from the X GENERATION something that l miss is big , colorful and full of illustrations

INTRUCTIONS BOOKLET

I think it's the sense of entitlement people have for games.

If a game isn't how they like then they pirate or leave it up to the work of modders to fix/ adjust. There's obviously a vision developers have and there should be a sense of respect for what creative decisions are made whether it is censorship, post-game DLC, or console exclusivity. The gaming industry doesn't solely depend on the good will.

Console exclusivity to boost hardware sales—especially for developers who initially planned to release on all platforms.

Turning previously subscription based mmos into F2P which is then filled with microtransactions and basically becomes a pay to win game.

In Lineage 2 I did long questlines for some gear which had superior stats, when they made it F2P they changes the world and thrown that item at you as starting gear, taking away the sense of accomplishment veteran players had, and they also introduced items to buy which gave you advantage in the duels to become Hero on your server.

In Star Trek Online you lost stuff you got from pre-ordering the game or by paying for lifetime subscription when the game became F2P. I got ship designs and uniform packs which were removed from me because they became purchasable packs. Like.. what the hell? It caused quite an uproar among those who paid almost $400 for a lifetime subscription.

Aion was completely ruined both in the world design and by introducing items you could buy and gave you an unfair advantage in PVP. A game which has open world PVP should have power items buyable for real money.

Removing content that you paid, Bungie did that with Destiny 2, with the excuse that the game was “taking up space and messing with balance”.

Since that day lot of player lost credibility and stopped playing.

Lootboxes

Fear of Missing Out (FOMO)

Bring out Early Access Games and not Finish it or Patch it Properly

DEAD MATTER.

I'm just done with games that come out that are not finished, MCTS never bothered me as long as it was not P2W. I'm just tired of games coming and flopping badly, because its all about money now instead of developers skill in making games and caring about what they are doing.

Live-Service for sure, when the fever for games like Destiny started to grow, many games like this came out and died and that was horrible for the players as there was a promise of future content that didn't arrive because the game didn't sell well. In other words, it was a horrible fever that, thank God, got better with time!

Games being touted as taking 60+ hours as a signifier of their worth/value/how good they are. Let me tell you, Mass Effect: Andromeda would have been a lot better of a game as something that took just 20-30 hours to complete rather than the massive sprawling game with so many useless side missions that were boring and uninspired.

There are so few games that pull off the open world, 60+ hour completion time, and I don't even think the ones that did it successfully really needed it to be a good game. Maybe it's just because I'm getting older and all, but I just don't have the time and energy to play a game that takes that as long as a JRPG to finish. Plus, I feel like so often the content that gets you to 60+ hours is so boring, tedious, and obviously filler content that it doesn't need to be there.

I want shorter games. Maybe if every game wasn't trying to be 60+ hours of content we could have games that didn't take nearly 10 years to develop.