and at that point I have to place the blame at gamers feet, sure EA may be evil for constantly pushing them but if you cant stop yourself from buying them then its on you at that point. they are a company and the bottom line is profit, if players are that gullible and dense then darn, I tip my hat to EA and see why they do what they do.
I either skip games that abuse microtransactions to heavily or either play them knowing that somehow I'm missing something, but I dont buy them, its not hard for me but apparently its like fighting a drug for others. this is one of those subjects where both sides are wrong, ea and other publishers for pushing these tactics and also gamers and the community for begging for top notch tech and not wanting to pay up.
but just like the ps3, a system that gave gamers everything, they balked at the price, then came the ps4, it was cheaper yet not quite right, so sony gave em the pro, in the end if someone bought both they burned hundreds, proving the old ps3 was cheap. and this is the same thing, instead of letting prices on games naturally rise they found a new tactic that'll cost more and its gamers own faults in the end.