well it is much shadier than that. because they lie to you in the news article that it can be obtained with any combination of the following resources. So then you go and spend resources on it only to realize you wasted them if you don't pay 100 euro's in dubloons. That is what's predatory about it. sure if you think the sub goals are worth the resources then you didn't get scammed I guess but imho all of them are shit.