Quote Originally Posted by Theodric View Post
The cynic in me believes that they only addressed the controversy surrounding the sudden price increase for Russian/Brazillian players because of the negative Steam reviews that arose as a consequence.
Companies are very good at solving problems when those problems become a PR problem. See also: Shirogane. Servers wouldn't let them add more houses, mainstream media picked up that the community had the torches & pitchforks out, and suddenly the servers could handle 50% more houses.