Just because the devs do it doesn't make it good. It is bad for the economy. It is also a royal PITA because then we end up with seriously overcrowded and very laggy servers.
The devs didn't come up with it. The marketing people came up with it as a way to entice users who dropped the game to come back and to placate users who have zero understanding of the software development process or what it takes to keep a computer network up and running 24/7. It's like offering money in a tv dinner box to Rep. William Jefferson..
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