I have 4500 hours (187 days) over 9 years in GTA online and that's a considerable percentage of my lifespan, and I'm not happy about it.

1300*3=3900, so I'll say to you what I would say to my past self, wrap it up and play a different game. Sorry if this is a buzzkill answer.

When they added console mod support to Skyrim and fallout 4, I found myself testing mods all of the time. So yeah, I think that might be bad

SW Jedi survivor, mostly because it's releasing very soon

Maybe you're not setting aside enough time for yourself. You can only experience a story for the 1st time once, but multiplayer with friends can be done without limit, making it a guilt free activity. Perhaps leaning on multiplayer so much indicates you're having trouble committing to playing a single-player story for fear that it's not the right time, or there won't be enough time to finish.

At least, that's a problem I have. Something that I do with anime is I set aside a specific time every week to watch it, which is always Sat night/Sun morning. I look forward to it every week.

Fallout NV: Lonesome Road

Microsoft indicated there is no intent to make Call of Duty exclusive, so this entire argument about the Activision acquisition is moot.

Also, you write too much, it's annoying to read. Also, stop asking for sources, I'm not sourcing data for a reddit reply.

1 They're effectively equal in that a lot of people like them and they have a large following. I doubt many list CoD as their fav games, none have ever won GOTY. The rest of your question is irrelevant in this argument if you recall my original comment (1st line) "From a purely gamers perspective..." Unless you have shares in Sony, data relating to Sony's bottom line do not matter to a gamer.

2 There's nothing to source, it's a logical argument.

3 KOTOR was never announced for Xbox, articles prior to 2022 are irrelevant because the studio changed, directors replaced

I gave a random list of games that are PS exclusive that I feel are on par with CoD, and Elder Scrolls. Replace them with any exclusive title that you wish, as it doesn't affect the core point, which is that CoD and Elder Scrolls are just a drop in the ocean compared to the list of quality titles that Sony co-opted and made exclusive for their platform, often in the same way that Microsoft is doing now.

KOTOR was only announced for PS5 btw.

I said buying IPs and gating players on other platforms from buying them is anti-consumerist. And obviously, everything is relative.

KOTOR is a great playstation original

From purely a gamers perspective, I don't see any extra significance to Microsoft buying Call of Duty, or Elder Scrolls, when compared to Sony acquiring over the years equally cool IPs like KOTOR, Spiderman, Bloodborne, etc. The fact is Sony bought a lot of IPs, and gated a lot of them from Xbox and PC players, and Microsoft started doing the same, the difference is they might keep CoD and Elder Scrolls cross platform, because not doing that would be a crappy, anti-consumerist thing to do.