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Monetization overload, often also referred to as over-monetization, happens when a company puts too many features within their product behind a paywall, or focuses too much development on a product's monetization over the functionality of the product.  

This is an umbrella term for various practices that companies may follow explicitly for the goal of profit. Examples include:

==Why it is a problem==

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Often when a product is over-monetized, the development of said product often ends up being biased towards features that increases transactions from consumers or advertising promotions from other companies. This kind of bias also does not favor developing features and fixes that do not directly incur revenue for the publisher, including but not limited to patching bugs, tweaking balance, repairing product defects, and moderating communities.  

Some product features that may have been normal and free to access for consumers could also be monetized in absurd ways. Free to play (F2P) titles could see experience progression be slowed down to encourage purchasing "experience boosts".  

This can be further applied with mundane monetization, where products could have barely different variants being sold at the same time. This is especially seen with cosmetics for games, where even a simple reshade could be sold.  

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In an effort to make money from consumers, companies may integrate advertisements into their products to generate revenue. This can become adverse if the company is hasty to integrate advertisements.  

====Activision - Call of Duty's battle pass overload====

==References==