But, here's the real rub for those of us who still hold on to
quaint notions like that old autonomy - accountability thing: you can't just mess around with one side of an equation.
In part one of our story, I rode out to battle against what now feels
like the absolutely
quaint notion that barraging the game's community with media hyping future cash shop products that conspicuously excludes pricing, then releasing those products at absurd price points with only a few days of availability was a predatory and anti-consumer way to market a product that leveraged fear of missing out to take advantage of players of a certain mindset.