Ohhh Monkey, don't be so negative. They are not pirates, they are bankers (although it is said about bankers that they are the pirates).
Their power is in interest, not in making ambush for their credit payers.
And... if I withdraw the money from a bank, I am spending it in a few minutes... no one could ambush and attack in that little fraction of time.
I know what you mean... but, I don't see the bigger change in this realm if bankers could have their mode of better communication... they already communicate, only not so quickly as would be if they have a chatroom (not the forum) to do it.
Yes, yes...all games depends of real payments and they could be a good customers (paying real money for voodoo etc )...
To tell the story... I played one a really interesting and active game for 3-4 years and stopped, because the players who were spending big amount of real money, were the ones who only wanted to build... not to combat... so, the game which initially was the warrior type of game, became some kind of Farmville.
That already happens here, with new fishing feature... and the skirmish is a big deception... but, I am not spending a real money for credits so... my power is to decide if I want to continue to play it or not.
(Not only direct payment is a mode for making profit of the game, you know).
To return to the story about the game I played... in one moment, only on Serbian server there were 5 worlds of the same game and for each world a special section in the forum too,... now, after loosing so many people, they mixed it in two worlds and they still lose the players. (This is the international game with so many national servers too).
So... sorry again my friend, but I really think that they need their place... In the game chatroom.