>my live service slop made more than that indie passion project with an honest monetization model
This is a good thing how exactly?

The devs realized that the archaeology simulator, Souls style of storytelling doesn't work well in live service gacha games, resulting in a big chunk of the playerbase not even knowing what a Shade is this far into the story. That's why they're pulling an entire tl;dr region out of their ass
I'm not a fan of it but I think it's for the best

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We're in this era of "aura farming" or something, where the only trait valued in a story is epic fights, grand visuals and catchy beat drop music, while completely ignoring everything else