[Molly]

*sigh*
How many more times will we have to listen to these same tired arguments?

So you claim the details of what they get for the money are uninteresting to most players? I claim that these details are exactly what matters to most.

Do you really think that it doesn't matter to a player whether he has to pay some money to even play the game, whether he has to pay a hefty sum for various 'perks' to be competitive, or whether he can choose to buy a t-shirt if he feels like it?

Is a store that sells t-shirts no different from a gym that sells memberships?
In this context? Of course it is.

The t-shirts you can buy if you like, and leave if you don't feel like it.
But you can't even enter the bloody Gym, let alone use the machines, without the membership card, for Christ's sake. And if the owner of the Gym charges money to use the machines too, do you claim that doesn't matter to the customers either?

How dim can you be to not see this difference?

You keep making these allegations of shady motives as if they matter to the actual question about a search engine.

I suppose you also want us to believe that your own motives for fighting against that search engine are all pure and unselfish?