Quote Originally Posted by Jandor View Post
But, they've already decided to sell that functionality rather than build it into the game, and a lot of players seem happy to pay for something that costs nothing to provide, so... *shrug*
As you said why give away something for free when people are willing to pay for it. That just bad business practice. Also if it cost SE nothing to provide feature and again people are willing to pay for it that 100% profit. SE might do some stuff poorly but marketing is not one of them.