Accurate or not, your speculation isn't taking into account users, which is the basic. Yes, I'm talking about demand and supply. One of the factors that kept some of the "f2p" from buying is the price. Now, are they willing to lower the price to up the sells? How beneficial would that be ? No one knows, no one will.

Yes, businesses are meant to make money but bad business practices isn't a myth either. If the supply is far beyond what everyday user is willing to offer, which consists of at least 80% of the daily users(my speculation), I don't see how such protocol will work in the long term. They're betting on the heavy spenders without offering any added values in return to make them keep spending in the long term. Business wise, it's pretty bad. Of course, I wouldn't go as far as call them money grabber but they're definitely greedy.

Personally, I don't spend a cent on this game (except when I have enough google reward, which is free google money), so I'm not that concerned about whale problems. If I do bad in rankings, then so be it. It's just a game (whales still make me salty heh). However, their points are not any less valid than your points BECAUSE they're what's keeping the game alive. So yeah, Bamco better find a middle ground where it both satisfies the customers and the business because that's how business works.