[VMG]

Agreed. While you're not paying for using the product by buying a software license, you're often required to buy tokens (get it?) in order to use the product. The developers benefit from the increase in token price, because they often own a lot of those tokens.

Not that this is necessarily unethical, but it's good to know the incentives behind this.

[woodrowbarlow]

wouldn't that be considered illegal market manipulation if they were somehow doing the same thing with US currency?