Dismissing out of hand is the same kind of blindness as buying without checking the reviews. You can get the premium currency through play and there's no time limit to the "battle passes". It's about as good as it could be implemented.
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They recently rolled what used to be called Xbox Live into the service. This is actually really low numbers considering.
You need to bump to ultimate level for access to the console version, but you can already set this up. It's not trivial though. Not sure I'd recommend it though.
Jan last year they were going to destroy the 3rd party D&D content creation ecosystem (it was legally debated whether they could anyway) it caused a mass boycott of D&D content and all 3rd party creators (including Critical Roll) to start diversifying. It went on for two weeks, only finally causing them to rollback on it because a campaign to cancel all ongoing D&D beyond subscriptions made them take it seriously.
They've been pushing to make a closed garden platform vtt for all their first party digital content, that it seems they've just started to rollback on.
Prior to that they've been consistently milking and trying squeeze the D&D playerbase and MTG community in more and more shitty and exploitative moves.
To say that community good will and faith in them is below zero is not an exaggeration. The main hardcore community have a very jaded and negative view of Wizards and Hasbro. Really to learn more I recommend crawling through YT of all the news. There's just no way to do it justice here.
There's a few of these. Not mentioned here is Project: Eden's Garden which is one I've been following for a while.
Something not mentioned by others, you can't engage on completed worlds. If a world is lost or won it becomes locked out until it gets attacked again by either side (not automatic or guaranteed). Cheaters could potentially remove all content from the game.