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Publishers are increasingly manipulating players with various tricks, forcing them to pay for thin air more and more often. The perfect business model

The gaming industry is accelerating its slide into the abyss of stagnation. While developers previously tried to compete with each other by offering players new and unusual mechanics, now everyone takes the path of least risk, copying from each other what brings in the most revenue. 

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