Jim Sterling did a video addressing your points that I’d be curious to hear your thoughts on. The tl/dw is:
Games today don’t cost $60, they cost $100 after DLCs and gold editions. That’s before microtransaction. Used to be you got the full game for $60, now you get access to the game world for $60, if you want the…

The small tidbit you don’t want to acknowledge is that when studied, there is NO EVIDENCE PIRACY LEADS TO LOST SALES. There was even an article about this on this site.

Right! But seriously, how many out of ten?

Attacking this article is pretty sad. “I don’t like what someone else wrote on the internet,” brilliant comment.

Not necessarily as he could have missed half games or this calculus could be the combined minutes he’s missed divided by 60.

Don’t toss football under the bus just because you don’t like your salad that way. #billsmafia

I don’t really understand the difference between emulation off an SD card and whatever this does. What’s the difference and the advantage?

How is this even legal though?

I think if you start drinking scotch rocks you’ll never appreciate the value and difference between scotches and will come away thinking “what’s the fuss, this stuff all tastes pretty much the same.” To use your imperfect analogy, you don’t give a new driver a supercar, but teaching someone to drive on a stick is not…

First, get that damn ice cube out of your glass! Cold reduces you’re taste buds ability to perceive flavor.

Fuck Jeffrey Maier

Absolutely! This is the right answer. Not to ban the practice, but to make it transparent. Something like “you have a 1/10 chance of getting The Sword of SuperAwesome every time you buy a key; on average players will spend $x to get the sword.” And that’s a whole lot more transparent than casinos.

As opposed to your claim that “it’s not a major cost” which has literally nothing behind it other than your words.

I’m not saying this is 100% accurate, but this estimate:

FUCKING SERIOUSLY!?!?! IF YOU’RE GOING TO FUCKING SPOIL THE LAST SEASON THE LEAST YOU COULD DO IS FUCKING TAG YOUR COMMENT.

FUCKING SERIOUSLY!?!?! IF YOU’RE GOING TO FUCKING SPOIL THE LAST SEASON THE LEAST YOU COULD DO IS FUCKING TAG YOUR COMMENT.

New content costs money to make. That’s not a solution. How does PUBG or Overwatch sustain the server costs in five years without some sort of in-game monetization of existing players?

How should developers of multiplayer games sustain their servers over the years once they no longer bring in new sales but still have hundreds of thousands of players?

“If you don’t agree with me you’re part of the problem.”

They are profit maximizers, that’s their job. Especially for F2P games, they are taking advantage of your irrationality, but that’s what caveat emptor means. They know you won’t spend $50 to get the Sword of SuperAwesome but you will probably spend $5 to have a 10% chance to get it. And then maybe do it again.