Whenever I use up too much data on mobile and get throttled hacker news becomes the only site I can still use since every other website takes 5+ minutes to load a single page.
Please never do a redesign. Don't ruin a good thing.
The only method you listed that people automatically are hostile to is selling in game items that unbalance a game in the buyers advantage
> players think you are intentionally weakening the free items in favor of the power you can buy.
Players dont just think this, time after time this has proven true. If the buyable item wasnt better why would anyone buy it?
None of the other monetization methods you lists are objectionable if done right.
If enough people are complaining about the value of your $60 game then maybe it's because you got your price point off and should have instead sold it at a lower price. Not every game is a AAA title.
It's almost like many of the very companies you mentioned were subject to antitrust investigations and without antitrust laws hanging above their heads like a sword of Damocles would be free to use their vast fortunes to stamp out any competition that threatened them ^.^