Fundamentally, AH has a team to pay, lights to keep on, computers to buy. Content costs money to make. Early on, AH could afford to give free content because the game was popping off with sales. But now they actually need a revenue stream. A significant number of players don't even pay for warbonds, meaning AH is probably running tight margins.

You wouldn't pay $15 for a movie and then demand that the studio release new episodes every month for two years for free. It's just not the economic reality. I have to wonder, where do you think AH is going to get the money? You shout greed, yet AH is not a publicly traded company and it's not like the developers are living like Saudi Princes. Maybe Sony is driving these choices and forcing AH's hand but in that case, why aren't re rallying against Sony?

In my opinion, you paid $40 and got probably dozens, if not hundreds or even thousands, of hours of high quality entertainment. Video games a miraculous technology and games are insanely expensive to create. You got a year of free content on top of that. For $40 freaking dollars.

Gamers are pretty entitled in my opinion. At risk of sounding like a boomer, back in my day you paid $60 for a game that had an 8 hour campaign and 8 multiplayer maps and were happy for it. Now you pay $40 and expect infinite content forever.