Madara is, technically, free, since you get to keep the ingots.

At the end of the day, every monday, they sit down and talk among themselves, "what's the best way to make money in short amount of time" that's basically their topic every monday, so they brainstorm a couple ideas on the table, to see if they can make cash, we all know they dont care if you dont spend at least 100 euros per week(5k ingots).

Im curious to know what kinda business deal they're thinking, cuz long term this game is not gonna survive, not without the help of stockholders from tencent(if they even care oasis is sinking down the boat), which again depends what kinda deal / contract they have with tencent in regards to this game, for this game to die (in sense of word like wildstar did) it would have to majorly have a mass of people not spending in like a month or so. From this point i can assume this game can survive even if there's only a handful of players recharging every week, just for the kicks.

Cuz if you're one of those people who recharges, then comes to forum or discord complaining about events, then dont recharge, spend your money elsewhere, nothing is going to change, they going to cater whoever puts 500 bucks upfront in cash simple as that, do it like me, i used to spend yes, i stopped cuz they dont listen, they dont care, so for me the best way to fight their greed is not throwing money at them, if you spend and dont care, dont complain, then idk what to tell you then, from that point it's ur money, you do whatever it's best, eventually people on ur server will quit.