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Pointless to argue with him, if you don't bash SE you are defending them

Same can be said to you, "pointless to argue with them if you are not defending SE."

They were just musing over possible reasons, also stated they think it's dumb.

I personally do not like having a cash shop in a sub game, but alas it's here to stay. Since it is, why shouldn't SE charge insane prices if people are willing to pay? I mean, sure, not trying to squeeze your customers for every last dime would be admirable, but they've proven time and time again they're not too concerned about that.

Na, I still stand what I said, because it can be easily seen things are less then 5 dollars. The only reason they posted that to try make it sound less of an issue then it really is, a constant theme of them. for "why shouldn't SE charge insane prices if people are willing to pay?" because there is a such thing called "anti customer practices" and that is what causes governments to get involved, because companies can't self regulate. I wonder how much longer the gaming industry's free passes of government regulation will hold when they keep pushing stuff like this.

Because sometime in the future, acting in this manner now is shooting themselves in the foot. Sure it makes nice short term profits, but what are the long term repercussions? Even at a self interest level, the long term repercussions can mean losing your core, older fanbase. That is why they shouldn't be doing it.