Different storage, only being able to buy them in quantities that you can’t reliably use up, stuff like that. Or it could just be the suppliers being jerks, for example.

Granted, the most obvious one is “it’s what the market will bear”, but if you want other possibilities they do at least exist.

A few things come to mind, largely centered around the cost of providing it not necessarily being tied strictly to the material cost, but I don’t have any data.

What is it about the game’s structures that is making it so fundamentally different?

Sure thing! I prattle on and on about the costs of things that are ad supported and how it breaks incentives, so I’m putting my money where my mouth is.

Kagi. So far, with a few exceptions, it’s been better than google on near everything.

Google is so bad now that I literally pay for a search engine.

Diversity of thought only applies to thoughts of equal merit. “I think these people are less than” should never be considered equally meritorious.

Because, as a proud Political-American, they just want me to stop existing.

I have. The question wasn’t “why do people pay him”, it was “why does he keep accepting the money to be their mouthpiece”. “He’s a useful idiot” and “they make money off him” doesn’t answer why he takes the money, only why it’s offered.

Other way around here -- why is he *taking* sponsors?

Totally negates the whole concept of "f-you money" if you never say f-you to anyone.

Even my friends who usually burn through every game are just kinda mindlessly grinding now, not really having fun with the game itself at this point.

Which one?