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If it takes you that long to explain and justify your reasoning, your reasoning is bull**bleep**. You asked for feedback. You received OVERWHELMING and EXTENSIVE feedback that NOBODY WANTS THIS, but you pulled the trigger anyway. And now you're trying to justify it with a bunch of blah blah this and blah blah that, but we all know why you did this.
Has it ever occurred to you that maybe offering rewards and incentives to encourage us to spend might just go over a little better than bullying and punishing us for not spending? We all get that you're out to make money, and I think most of us understand that it's a business, but stop treating your consumers and fanbase like this. You are going to lose players over this. And you have yet again guaranteed that you will never see a single dime from me.