It’s how I played the last Gears of War when I had an XBox, and then how I played the last Halo on my PC.

IIRC you also had to pay for the idle animation. Like if you don’t interact with the game, Gollum would catch a fly and eat it or something, but you had to pay for that.

They put the lore behind a paywall too. The game was just a huge fail overall.