Seriously SE???

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It's the fact that in spite of all these extra costs, they still feel the need to charge an expansion pack more than the base cost of the game itself. Where is the line actually drawn?

The line is drawn when you realize that the game was 40 dollars for PS3, and that the expansion was likely to be the same price. When you realize the only reason the PC version was 30 was because 1.0 got lowered to what... 20 dollars because of how poorly it was received?

All things considered, if all versions were released at the same time, bar the poor reception, it would have been the same price across the board, and definitely not 30 dollars.

The extra costs? You mean the optional things that nobody actually needs? I mean, maybe just maybe the extra retainers. I've been playing since 2.0 launch and I've never once needed more inventory space than currently available. I don't need the vanity stuff in cash shop, but if I did want it, what's a few bucks to me if I'm paying 15 monthly? To exaggerate, I could find the money to pay for extra retainers or optional 'vanity' on the ground.

There's no reason to treat MMO's different than any other industry. What can be monetized, will be monetized. If you have a problem with that, take that up with God or something, because that's not just gaming, that's literally everything, ever. It isn't changing any time soon, and if it were, it'd need a big movement with tons of big names, and radical influence behind it.