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Old 03-26-2008, 13:57   #52
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Originally Posted by Dazza View Post
If FN drops in price, then sweat prices can increase to match the current going prices. If you pay 110ped for FN, and 90ped for sweat, and sell ME @ 210%, your getting the same amount back if you paid 140ped for FN, and 60ped for sweat. Its an inverse economical relationship that in turn delivers help to many people.
Problem is, it gives help to many people who are depositing little or nothing. Those people are a business liability for MA. If you aren't depositing, MA is spending processor time, bandwidth, storage space, &c. on you and getting nothing in return. They aren't in this to make sure non-depositors have fun, they are in it to make money.

And dropping the price of FN cuts into the profits (and thus incentive to keep playing) of people who are probably depositing at least now and then.

From a business perspective, it makes sense for sweating to be as boring and low-profit as MA can possibly make it while still hanging on to new players long enough for them to see how much fun everybody else is having. Hopefully, they realize it will take forever to make money sweating and start depositing, and MA profits.

And when MA profits, we still have a game to play.
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