Wars are subscription based now. Instead of one massive and enormously expensive short-term conflict, you get a decades-long enormously expensive conflict.
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AKA, the forever war, from 1984, where war is waged specifically to waste and destroy the product of economies, to keep the proles poor, and thus unable to rise up against their oligarchical masters.
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We've moved from waterfall through to an agile continuous-delivery world war paradigm.
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WW Pro XL ™
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Here comes the Cuba DLC
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World War 365
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They number world wars by year now. Welcome to WW2026
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I knew Valve was behind WW1 and WW2...
WW s09e21The One With The Middle East (Part 7)
That's actually really convenient for managing shareholder value expectations.
Continuous Invasions / Continuous Deployments model.
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Subscribe to the World War Battle Pass and revive your free military skin.
It’s basically the geopolitical version of releasing a game in alpha, getting review-bombed, then delisting it and relaunching six months later under a new title with 80% of the same assets and a slightly different trailer voiceover.
That all started with the rebranding of war as a conflict, i.e Korea. It worked, so we've been in conflicts ever since. No danger of world wars anymore.
Paid tier with ads.
I guess the world is like Valve, no Half-Life 3, Portal 3, Left 4 Dead 3, World War 3, nothing.
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I'm buying the battlepass (going shopping at a military surplus store)
World war Tokyo drift when?
World War Tres. This way he can claim the T stands for Trump.
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A rolling distro
DLC heavy breathing intensifies
What we forgot is that peace is the subscription model. The institutions supporting it require constant attention and care. Once you take them for granted and decide they’re not needed, that’s when the default, war, comes back.
World War Vibe
And the dlc's have increased in price dramatically lately.
World War Survive
War as a Service.
I wonder when they're going to drop in loot boxes.
Time for the season of war.
What's your name? (What's your name?)
Who's your daddy? (Who's your daddy?)
We’re one ME 1.3
You just dont announce it.
GABEN FOR PRESIDENT OF EARTH
Just let Valve develop it
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Hey look, a new creative way to deny we are in WWIII!
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