No offense , but isn ' t the way the game goes something that is obvious from the beginning ? I don ' t know a single freemium game in which power creep is not a thing . Also , not all freemium games do limited time events with special draws , but the ones that do also do it in much the same way . They are all cash grabs . Whether the cash grab is good or bad is a matter of how it is implemented and the perceived value . Not saying you ' re wrong about the dwindling player base , but at least to me , it sounds more doom and gloom than it needs to be . I don ' t see a reason for global development to stop until at the very least they release all content up to where the JP version ends . If the cash grab freemium model were not a working model , these games wouldn ' t exist . And they keep coming out in droves .