Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-30576757-20170221050616/@comment-28176594-20170228230959

Sirebel wrote: lol, why does it not surprise me that a bunch of virtual petrol heads are aggressively capitalist :-D. I totally agreed on your Brexit and Trump post because I've thought it many times (here and with the GC ads thing a couple of month ago). However with this quote I disagree; it's not capitalism, it's a lack of context analysis and fanatism to self-entitlement and wanting to feel superior. Although I recognize the bad practice of capitalist ideology in the last decades has promoted that.

On topic. Of course upgrade borrowing wasn't pefect, you needed the GC to reach FU, but it was an economic decision most people could take (i.e. have 1500 spare GC). Now it's another option gone.

About business decisions I think Sirebel has a point that ads bring tons of cash and a happy and bigger community brings more ads. However I don't think EA is so stupid not to see that. There has to be some underlying motive. Perhaps they are trying not to look as hippies by dishonoring the old and wealthy haha, that would be bad PR.