Plenty of those so called platforms have failed as well due to scenarios where investors decided to pull back there money causing the companies to go bankrupt. I don't have the time or concern to educate but you should read on global economies and how having high foreign investments ( in this case investors would qualify for that role) can lead to crisis. As an example imagine someone putting in tons of dollars when dollar is low and withdrawing it when dollar moves up. What does MA do ?? I don't see them hedging the dollars that they receive and if they do they would need to pay someone to do that, added cost.
What this game needs is less of investors and more of players and for that MA needs to come up with ways like simulator to make this game more fun. There is a reason most leading game developers have not gone the RCE route, the fact being that it is less rewarding then just getting people to pay for entertainment. As a player i love the RCE concept and am glad MA is able to shoestring its way into maintaining it somewhat ( with new ideas it is losing a lot of the RCE concepts like avatar bound stuff) but i still rather have whats remaining then no RCE at all.
The other problem i have with people shouting about stuff like this is that it reduces focus from the actual issues in game. Lots of promises have been abandoned, space, statues, integration of stables with compet and what not. If you start shouting about stuff which works, you are taking emphasis away from those issues which do not and that to me is doing disservice to the players.
My 2 cents,
Divinity