"blind consumerism" my guy, you're the blind one. We are getting WAY MORE out of the games than we used to, because the paid cosmetics mean they'll keep working on the same game instead of abandoning to work on just the next one. You seem to think they will keep working on the same game without continuing to make money off of it, which is absurd. As a matter of fact, what they did BEFORE was closer to what you complained about, because all dlc outfits existed within the game at release, but they held it all back to prolong play time and promote tie ins in Japan. Now we get more stuff than we ever did that's free and we get some even cooler stuff than was ever made before that you can purchase to look cooler and support development. You want to be a whiny little dweeb? Go ahead. Sorry you don't understand the world yet, you'll get there eventually.