I don't get the outrage over the price-scheming though. I mean, it's not unexpected or dishonest. It is self-serving, but... you live in America, right? How many companies are there around that aren't self-serving? How many people? It's not that it's none, and we were very fortunate to have DougZ as a shining example of someone who wasn't. But while this price scheme doesn't make me all happy inside... color me thoroughly meh.
When you don't complain on these things that are only anti-costumer and only self-serving, the anti-costumer will not have any negative impact, so any wise buisness decision would be to ignore costumer. Therefore, you should complain and not be company-understanding.
Maybe it's rational for them to do so, but it's not rational for us to except it. Edit: Because, in the long run, what's rational for companies depends on how the costumer behaves.
Totally agree with DStu.
See it like that: If you buy the boardgame, you have 100% control about what
you are doing with it where to take and so on.
If you buy virtual goods in a store like that, you are completely dependend on them: You do not know whether their service will shut down, if there is a lot of server load, the service is broken and so on...
So pricing is ok, but it should not be to much because it is not 100% reliable