The thing is, even if gaming goes to utter garbage, we live in an age of plentiful entertainment opportunities. You could read novels (still a relatively new form of entertainment!!!), take up improv or an instrument, or even try table top gaming!
There are so many choices and if the industry goes a way that you hate, to hell with it.
But more to your question, yeah, I agree that microtransactions suck old musty balls, but there is a lot of choice put there. Pillars of Eternity, Divinity: Original Sin, lots of Indies, Bloodborne and the Souls games, and on and on to the break of dawn.
There are so many choices and if the industry goes a way that you hate, to hell with it.
But more to your question, yeah, I agree that microtransactions suck old musty balls, but there is a lot of choice put there. Pillars of Eternity, Divinity: Original Sin, lots of Indies, Bloodborne and the Souls games, and on and on to the break of dawn.