Here's a method for FD to make money without annoying anyone.
Make the game more fun so the players that have currently abandoned the game come back.
Sell skins and other items at a much lower price point.
A better game = happier customers = more sales via word of mouth advertising and more sales of cosmetics.
Does anyone think this shouldn't be the method to make money and they should just keep porting and chasing new sales using IMO unrepresentative trailers to con people into a buying a game?
Exactly.
But asking for satisfactory quality in return of money in the games industry is a herecy nowadays where the standards are to defend the whatever comes and create excuses for them and fill up the lack of quality with some mental and imaginative techniques.
This is the first time I run into this bantha pudu, the games I buy are all satisfactory quality as they come. Maybe it's my fault when I let my common sense to walk away when the fond memories of Elite sneaked back to my mind...