I’m in my 30s and you said exactly what I mean.No buying once is not a pre internet idea. I take it you were not around in the 90s/ early 2000s. The internet was around long before app updates. The reality is that the modern App Store era (post 2010) has given us unfinished products, apps and games that “ship” with loads of bugs and filled with tons of updates and micro transactions. Before the App Store developers had one shot to get it right and that’s it. And guess what? Most stuff worked pretty well. Including early apps in the App Store. Because they were in the mind set that they had to get it right.
If the norm is to release half baked products then everyone is gonna do it. Apple is guilty, AAA game devs are guilty. Things are infinitely more complex than they were 20+ years ago but instead of allowing for more time, the quality suffers. It’s a garbage mind set . The psychology now is that they‘re enhancing the game or adding things to the game ….yeah ok. Imagine if your favorite movies and books started getting updates to make changes….oh wait. That’s actually starting to happen.
“Because they were in the mind set that they had to get it right.”
Before the internet where you could release a half baked game with heaps of patches you had to get it right!