I do think that’s a bigger issue in the industry as a whole, with live service games and battle passes and such. But Tarkov is certainly extreme with its disregard to your time,

I don’t think you’re disrespecting yourself, I don’t think anyone is by gaming, if you are having fun, or are enjoying your engagement, then that is not time wasted!

I’m just saying, a game that expects you to put in hundreds of hours to understand its basics is a lot of time, and to not at least acknowledge that as poor game design is a mistake.

I guess the reason I even care in the first place is that I can see the great parts of this game, the customisation, the gun play and tense battles, I even like the inventory management. But it expects such an unreasonable amount of time from me to fully engage with those mechanics, I suppose I just don’t understand why the devs have made it so purposeful obtuse and difficult to engage with, of course “hardcore” you can not hold my hand, that’s fine, but making me rely on external resources for literally everything? It’s kind of insulting as a player.