Generally, most of the big live service multiplayer games are social status games which is wise and rewards for them are cosmetics that other players can see and not things that only you can see.
We are not hardwired for this because a lot of people like myself never engage with these games at all. And even if we do, we stay as free players the entire time.
I play games for their interactive story content or their novel mechanics not to show all the other players that I have a solid gold machine gun or whatever the fuck.
Generally, most of the big live service multiplayer games are social status games which is wise and rewards for them are cosmetics that other players can see and not things that only you can see.
We are not hardwired for this because a lot of people like myself never engage with these games at all. And even if we do, we stay as free players the entire time.
I play games for their interactive story content or their novel mechanics not to show all the other players that I have a solid gold machine gun or whatever the fuck.