Quote Originally Posted by Vstarstruck View Post
Same can be said to you, "pointless to argue with them if you are not defending SE."


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?
I highly doubt the government is going to be concerned over how a gaming company handles their cash shop. That's just an absurd stretch.

The cash shop is not going to appeal to everyone. But as it is, SE is still charging high prices, so they obviously seem to be content with the amount of revenue that they are pulling in from it. I imagine they would start lowering prices/have more sales if they saw things start to dip.

As for repercussions, time will tell. I personally would have a hard time playing another MMO by SE (not only because of cash shop), but the game is still hugely popular and doing well as a whole.