It's true that while dragging politics into a discussion about an Action RPG is far from appealing, I will have to touch briefly upon the concept of globalization to kind of get to where I'm going with this opening. Essentially, the principals that the world economy operates on apply to some extent to the gaming industry. Simply said, the rich will try all the tricks in the book to exert their dominance on the market and use every means at their disposal to do it. And if that means throwing wads of money at the competition, then that's what they'll do. At the end of the day, the logic here is simple. If it takes you less money to bury your competition than you would stand to lose by letting them live, then do whatever is best for you, and that often entails using your superior financial resources to either buy off (or put out of business) the weaker competitors.