All of what you said above is very true. Anyone with common sense is able to see through his narcissistic, greedy, half-assed, ego-maniacal, manipulative tactics. I listened my experience so individuals had a reference for my prospective. I try very hard to post exactly what I mean and I won't hesitate to except another person's prospective or opinion, as long as they have a constructive and reasonable way of working it. I get that people are angry and upset, amongst other things. Let me digress, so in response to your post, I completely agree with your analysis and I would like to add to it with my own prospective and observation of not just Mr. Smith but all of the other individuals in this particular entertainment category. 1. Individuals in other corporate facets have far too much Bureaucracy and regulation to make the maximum amount of profit earned for the littlest amount of income spent. In the case of the Gaming industry, there are two entities that self govern and self regulate the ENTIRE medium of entertainment, which gives these crooks a Hell of a lot of leeway to basically charge what they deem reasonable for their level of expertise. 2. The actual price for this form of entertainment is way over priced for the the level of effort put in and these individuals know this. Yes, it takes a level of experience, education, creativity and ingenuity to create digital worlds we play in. However, in most cases what we pay for is an insult to the gaming community. Example; you wouldn't pay full price for half a car and be told if you pay extra, you'll get the whole thing. If any salesman tried that, they'd be told numerous, ugly and colorful things and would most likely go out of business for this practice and most likely end up bankrupt. In this community, as Gamers, we've slowly but surely allowed this kind of greedy tactic to become common place. We pay MORE than full price for a game that more time than not, aren't complete. Full of bugs, glitches, wholes in code, sometimes game breaking errors and other times, content that has been purposely removed from a fully developed game so it can be sold back to us in a later DLCs, expansions or GOTY editions. All of this for sheer greedy intent. 3. This should go without saying but the artist's creative ego. They feel as though their creativity and ingenious way of expressing that talent is some how worth the exorbitant and copious amounts of money they charge for their genius. To be honest, it isn't. The amount of training, education and time it takes to code a game engine has been proven time and time again that anyone with time, patience, a little talent and creativity are capable of creating a full Indy titles in hours with one creator doing all the work. So, as far as the effort put in and the resources used, they are highwaymen charging a highwaymen's fee for something a team made? No, it for the entitlement of the "creative minds", a very small group of ego-maniacal, narcissistic sociopathic, boarder line personalty manic-depressives with underlying issues to being the prey for the socially inept bullies they faced in their adolescence. So, they take their misplaced aggression out on the people that support them and are the actual investors in their product. I could go on here but the longer I talk about this, the more depressed I become. This development team and this game alone have wasted their opportunity for a master piece, the new Bungie's Magnum Opus on ego and greed.