There's no tinfoil hat here. Just plenty of observation. I'm not saying that this behavior is purposely coded into the game by nefarious developers hoping to garner a few scheckels from the impatient.
It is, however, a real and continuing problem plaguing the game. All the neat extras and ideas in the world don't matter if the basic game itself remains unstable and bug-filled.
Anyway, thanks for the being a responsive mediator NB4. Getting between two, often wildly disparate, sets of interests and ideas can certainly be taxing, to say the least.