Reddit reviews FREE: The Future of a Radical Price

Maybe you are correct and there is a level of malice, yet they are the "game owners" & I have a huge level of baseline respect for any Owners (Artist, entrepreneur, business, family, game, etc).

At some point in all you own you have to decide what to give away (as a part of marketing) and what to charge for.

It's not malice to charge for part of what you have created ... that's called sustainability.

If you really want to dive into this topic in an indirect way, look up the book titled "Free" by Chris Anderson:
Audiobook version should be free on audible
Archive.org has a few version it links to
So this book, a good book, talks all about the reasons and methods of giving stuff away - making F2P ... yet I'll spoil a little for you, you can give too much away.

See Free does not allow employees to get a paycheck directly.
Free brings people to the game, makes it easy for them to get to know it ... then there must be systems in place so that the portion of people who desires to pay can.

I know how upsetting it is to hit the paywall.
This is just another paywall.

I also see how all the little decisions that they made add up to frustration because we who did not whale on MF, et all have at least a more difficult time, or loose out on some opportunities.

That is still not automatically malice ... that is a much higher standard of desire to harm you.
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I'd like to change this up a little.

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  What would you choose to make money on in SW:GoH, given you have a sunk cost of creating ships & must at least minimum sorta maintain that, but really keep it going until you have built out the team enough to build it right .... and you are limited on staff to do anything?
  
  ... last thing ...
  This post really summed it up, especially the more I have thought about it ... and really it's just incompetence for me: (NOTE: we are all incompetent at something, if not most things ... I know I am.)
  https://www.reddit.com/r/SWGalaxyOfHeroes/comments/70e33f/territory_battles_the_grand_chore_mode/

No, lightning does not let you do fee-less microtransactions.

Some may think the fees in LN are so tiny they dont matter, but they are wrong.

Humans have a weird intrinsic psychological reaction when deciding to pay 0 cents or pay infinitesimally small sub-satoshis. This tiny nuance is incredibly important to understand if one wants to create a wildly successful businesses centered around the use of cryptos.

Here's a free audible book on this phenomena. I found it incredibly interesting, maybe you will too. Fun fact, Nick Szabo is briefly mentioned here

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0055PK366/ref=tmm_aud_title_0?


Edit: Notice I didn't talk about "user friendly" or "issues". These can be abstracted away by a competent developer, but you cannot abstract away fees.

5. FREE: The Future of a radical price