Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-38105396-20191126201852/@comment-28169398-20191214035220

Go718 wrote: I appreciate your arguments. They are very well placed and they are much closer to what I think is the intension/motivation (making profit - which is fine) and effect (an enjoyable game). While this might be the old chicken and egg story, the question is: would closing the loop holes and having a broader basis of payments increase FMs commitment to a more enjoyable game or would it result in filling FMs pokets. I know this is likely not one or the other  but I tend to believe it is not going to ease the pain in our efforts (time or money) to keep up with the ever increasing content. I think the mistakes that were made in the past and the decisions to not address them ruined a large portion of what the game was up until this release. The ship on salvaging R$ and GC as being reasonably priced options sailed long ago.

My hope is that the homework that they did based on those (failed) cases informed them with M$ and that they won't make the same mistakes that they did with R$ and GC. At some point they will need to monetize M$ too... my hope is that they can do so in such a way that is affordable for the vast majority of players and sustainable for continued development of the game.