It's crazy how no staff members even addressed anything in this thread so far. It's almost like they understand it's wrong and have nothing to say that would counter this common opinion.

Threads like this always die because people who are in charge of market don't discuss it let alone make changes accordingly. People who don't know much about marketing and economy end up making decisions that they think are right, then aren't mature enough to admit that they are doing bad decisions, which spirals into market that is already significantly more dead than few months ago. People are hardly even buying stuff anymore and trying to market is now pointless because most things are cheap to the point of people bargaining over fractions of a penny.