There doesn't need to be a balance at all. No consumer should actively want that. Artificial restraints to make you spend more money longer. There's only one because Blizzard wants you to pay that $15 a month for more months. It's the core ethos of pay-for-play gaming. Every factor is designed in a way in which they can draw things out as long as possible to make more money off of you. You're trying to word it like they're doing someone a favor, and that's weird. They're doing it 100% for themselves. I'm not attacking them for it, people gotta eat and such, it's just the way it works. It'd be entirely illogical to expect such a business model to do otherwise. Just don't try and gussy it up or hide behind "But people complain!".