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Games are supposed to be fun. Forcing paying customers to do something intentionally designed to be not fun before they can have fun is stupid. I know I'm in the minority, but I straight up won't participate in that bullshit.
I mean....the weak start is kind of the basis of every rpg and almost every fps in existence. You start with the crappy bb gun and then somehow you end up becoming an all powerful stealth archer, even though your game doesn't even offer a bow to use.
Gaining strength through experience is fun if it's done in a sane way is fun. Farming the same monsters over and over to unlock common feature is not. Hit the X button 4.5 million times to continue is shit.
It's not an accident that unlocking this stuff is tedious when there's an option to just pay more money to do so. That's the value proposition behind microtransactions in games: Give us money or we'll force you to do boring shit for many hours.
Man. It sure sucks I only start with a water can and 500 coins in Stardew Valley. I could do so much more if I could just start with 20 upgraded sprinklers and 20,000 coins.