starting to lose interest in this game sadly

[Kaurie]

At the end of the day it's still a business. If the game isn't making a sizable profit then funding will end. The goal of a business is to make profit, and customer satisfaction is just one means to meet that end goal. However, for whatever reason it's often supposed that it's the other way around by the customer base. If the game doesn't make profit then it will be shut down in favor of another model.

The problem isn't that threads like this exist, but that the numbers don't agree with a thread like this. Any large corporation is not gonna roll out a huge amount of man hours because of a survey. The one and only reason they would do that is a reaction to a downward trend. This game has not hit that point in it's life. It's too early and its still easy to grab players that are new to the game with easy promotions. For every long term subscriber there are many more new players, maybe they only sub for a few months but the collective mass of people playing 1-6 months more than likely earns SE a greater profit then the one guy who plays for 1-2 years.

I agree with all of that, and it's not contradictory to what I said. The point is that prices are fixated on a balancing point between two conflicting interests (consumers demand to lower prices and company's demand to raise prices). It is a consumer role in this scenario to voice up if you find the prices too high, and to make actions with your money.

We already pay a sub fee, which I am sure easily gives them their profits. The added costs through the cash shop are considered by some to be poor business practice. We have two methods to show this, either don't buy stuff, or voice our opinion. I personally do the former, OP did the latter.

Rolling over and telling him to shut up, because the company needs profits only helps the company. It's counter-active to your own interests as a consumer.

A comparison would be, say the PS4 launched at $2000, and someone said F' that too expensive. Another person came up and said, hey Sony needs profits Okay?. Then person A is like 'ah you're right, here sony take my money.' - does this at all sound like a logical and reasonable course of events? No, it's absurd.

In a capitalist economy, we focus on our own well-being and self interests. That is the basis for which we live and how our entire economy works.