When we launched Artifact, we expected it would be the beginning of a long journey, that it would lay the foundation for years to come. Our plan was to immediately dive into our normal strategy of shipping a series of updates driven by the dialogue community members were having with each other and with us.

Obviously, things didn't turn out how we hoped.

Lmao people are so broken by corporations that they don’t even know what the words they use mean. Artifact is actually the complete opposite of predatory. It’s literally just a game that you have to pay for. That’s it. Don’t want to pay or are too poor? That’s fine. Game isn’t for you.

The “Free to Play” games are, by definition, predatory. The skinnerboxes that people crave are literally designed to make