SE - Default 3rd Retainer before Fees

[cearka]

You expanded your possibilities by paying a subscription - They already charge you real money. If $2 is that big of a deal, don't buy it, there's plenty who will and SE will succeed in making more money.

You...do remember SE is a business, right? If gamers didn't throw themselves at games like Farmville, pay for DLC and incompleted games and "early access" no company would see the profit.

agreed. I don't know any other group of people that will gripe and moan over two dollars as much as gamers do. Paying a sub doesn't mean your entitled to everything. That's like saying you wanna walk into a car dealership and you wanna pay a base model price to get car that's fully loaded with all upgrades. paying for a meal/drink and always expecting the largest size. seriously, most everything you buy in life can be found in tiered packages, with add ons, upgrades, whatnot. but I guess many gamers are to entitled to understand that.

[Chasely]

agreed. I don't know any other group of people that will gripe and moan over two dollars as much as gamers do. Paying a sub doesn't mean your entitled to everything. That's like saying you wanna walk into a car dealership and you wanna pay a base model price to get car that's fully loaded with all upgrades. paying for a meal/drink and always expecting the largest size. seriously, most everything you buy in life can be found in tiered packages, with add ons, upgrades, whatnot. but I guess many gamers are to entitled to understand that.

Your analogies are awful. How about: you pay for a car and the extended warranty, which includes free repairs at the dealership. Only, they give you the repairs for free and charge you an arm and a leg for the parts.


Or: You go to a restaurant and order a burger with the works. You assume it means Lettuce, tomato, onion, ketchup, mustard (or mayonnaise), etc. They give you that medium burger, plain, on a dry bun; Condiments cost 2 more dollars.

Those are the correct analogies. You go in thinking you are fully paying for something only to have the company cut corners to line their own pockets. companies made huge profits long before DLC or F2P was even a thing. Do not excuse greed simply because the companies want you to.

[PlanckZero]

Or: You go to a restaurant and order a burger with the works. You assume it means Lettuce, tomato, onion, ketchup, mustard (or mayonnaise), etc. They give you that medium burger, plain, on a dry bun; Condiments cost 2 more dollars.

No. The proper analogy would be ordering a double cheeseburger, asking for a third burger patty and then expecting the burger to still cost the same.

Everyone knows that a double cheeseburger only comes with two patties, that having three patties would be great, that even with just two patties the burger still tastes great and isn't losing out on anything major, and that if you really wanted a third patty it's worth the additional cost.

Not having that third patty doesn't ruin the meal. You've still got two meaty patties that fill you up. Could you be fuller? Sure. But if you want that extra of course it's going to come at a cost.