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Common Democracy W

Reject transphobia, embrace transhumanism,
the machine god demands you surrender the
flesh for steel and iron.

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I genuinely once believed in Gaijin to be a reasonable company that would put aside moronic and neanderthalic greed in place for a game that could bring in a larger audience and expose to a larger audience the appeal to being an armchair weapon and vehicle historian. However ever since 2012 my hours used in this game have only proven me wrong as time has gone on, I've unlocked almost every vehicle, every achievement, and yet everytime I play this game I feel like a battered house wife in an abusive relationship with a husband who sells his wife just to make his own business gain more profit. As such I always have strong feelings for when a change is implemented and when the game is "rebalanced" for the sake of "fun". The game isn't fun, the game is in fact a chore to play. You genuinely have a better chance to get a part time job and just buy a T-72 irl, that's how much the grind is in this game. By the time you would have spent 5 years irl saving up money to buy a soviet armored car, you would have gotten the same vehicle in this god forsaken game. The game always remains with potential to become far grander in scale and if anything far more entertaining in execution. However, gaijin as a company is no worse in greed than EA. EA by comparison, has far more respect from me than Gaijin simply due to their transparency to their choices and their greed, I at the very least am given an explanation as of to why such changes are applied to an EA game, however with Gaijin it's just radio silence no matter the change. One day you will have a new vehicle working just fine, and the next patch the vehicle is upside down and flying into the sky just like the 1.64 patch with the flying upside down churchills... I genuinely believe you have a better chance working and slaving away in a part time job at amazon than you would spending the same amount of time in this game to get a high tier vehicle. As such, in conclusion, save your time and money, just play something else

As of (9/17/2019-AD) I find the game to be ridden with nothing but greed and corporate meddling with the affairs of the creative vision and gameplay direction this game once bestowed upon it's players. It entices many who are exposed to it's online multiplayer experience with a bombardment of animated propaganda that envelopes it's player and without fail endlessly brings both subtle and out right blatant subliminal if not malicious advertisement for rockstar's "Premium" shark card service. This is only reinforced with the blasphemous prices the game brings to the fore front as it features not only a horrid amount to the table being deemed as "a necessary" but as an ends to their "justifiable" financial ends.

This should never be the case and yet we are being subjected to horrid advertisment for these predatory services that are akin to a butler holding you prisoner at the expense of his own paycheck. The twist in the online gameplay has wrought only headaches, hackers, modders, chinese server abusers, pvp unilateral inconsistencies to which rockstar has willingly ignored for the longest time. Refusing to not only deny it's players fully dedicated servers with anti-cheat systems and programs that wold allow for such trifling matters to end. But there is a profit to be made in these "peer to peer" connection based servers as they allow rockstar to save money and force players to splurge on shark cards so they may exact their vengeance upon the hackers and modders.

As such one cannot and must not ignore the recent trojan horse that is the rockstar game launcher. This not only breaches the trust between the player-base and the developer/publisher but has also created a divide if not destroying bridges between the playerbase and rockstar due to these recent corporate decisive decisions that have been executed to exploit their loyal fan-base and to exploit the minds of the young who simply bought the game via lying about their age; something that is well recognized by rockstar before with previous GTA titles. As such the recent casino update is a different matter that reaches a similar tone. Yet nonetheless the singleplayer experience remains the same story driven game that entrances the fans of not only old but new. As such I see no real expansion for friendly relations between Rockstar and it's Player-Base should this path continue, for if they continue down this path of extortion, propaganda, and exploitation of the weak-willed. Then they are to become no different than Konami; a company that is now all but a corporate shell that focuses on only making money and not on making good games with good gameplay that features an enticing, reinvigorating and down right entertaining show that brings the player into an all interesting alternate reality.

Be that as it may, I myself will have to stop playing the game until these corporate choices are ceased if not eliminated, I have urged my closest friends to do the same as I do not wish to see them exploited in such a fashion. And with nothing left to write within this review I must say, farewell, good day, and have a damn good one!