When COD Mobile (both Global and Garena) released in October 2019 - less than 4 years ago - it had 50 Tiers in the battle pass. I came back and it's 200 tiers now, which is insane.
It's especially shocking to see as one of the OG players of CODM - I played it since launch - to see firsthand just how desperate capitalism has become at squeezing the proles of as much money as possible at every possible level including something as mundane as gaming.
I started to enjoy card games more recently (not gambling), they are way more multiplayer than multiplayer video games, since you actually meet with people face to face and have normal human interactions
And it's way cheaper
If you look at it from the point of playing games as a means of having fun and enjoying free time, you realize that you don't have to spend hundreds of dollars just to make your brain produce more serotonin, dopamin etc.. Dont fall for this bs