Steam payment HUGE price increase!

[Avatre]

SE has a reputation for making all of kinds of poorly advised executive decisions in general from top to bottom and doing everything they can to milk every single last penny out of their fans with

All companies do. Someone high enough in the chain wants something a certain way, despite the people who actually handle that normally saying it is a bad idea/will create more work/cause people to leave the company(both internal and external customers), but what the higher up says goes 99% of the time. And this comes from personal experience(I do payroll for the company I work for, and I tell them how bad the timing of things is...they don't care and want it done now)

[Zarabeth]

All companies do. Someone high enough in the chain wants something a certain way, despite the people who actually handle that normally saying it is a bad idea/will create more work/cause people to leave the company(both internal and external customers), but what the higher up says goes 99% of the time. And this comes from personal experience(I do payroll for the company I work for, and I tell them how bad the timing of things is...they don't care and want it done now)

I've been playing Squeenix games since FFXI was a couple years old land imo they have gotten much worse over the years as to money grubbing. That said, I highly doubt Yoshida has any input into their financial moves. To be honest, I was shocked that they put a cash shop in a pay to play game, but that does seem to be the trend now. I also think that pulling this trick one month after releasing Stormblood is a pretty horrible move.