Just because there are many games that do it badly doesn’t mean the genre label means something different. I’m playing GW2 and Warframe which are very much live service games and I rarely, if ever, feel exploited or manipulated into giving money to them - if anything it’s the opposite and the only occassion when I do spend extra on them is when I’m happy with content or updates and want to support them.
There are no exceptions. There is no game that has ever done live service in a way that is in any way forgivable.
This is subjective and I believe this might be the case for you, but it is demonstratively absolutely not true for everyone. You framing it like some absolute authority on the subject is just shortsighted and inaccurate.
Just because there are many games that do it badly doesn’t mean the genre label means something different. I’m playing GW2 and Warframe which are very much live service games and I rarely, if ever, feel exploited or manipulated into giving money to them - if anything it’s the opposite and the only occassion when I do spend extra on them is when I’m happy with content or updates and want to support them.
This is subjective and I believe this might be the case for you, but it is demonstratively absolutely not true for everyone. You framing it like some absolute authority on the subject is just shortsighted and inaccurate.