Every company rolling out "credits" right now is doing the same thing: charging you per use and betting you won't notice. It's usage-based pricing with a fog machine. And the annoying part is that it works. Start with the psychology, because that's the whole trick. The second someone pre-buys credits, the money stops being money. It turns into arcade tokens. Nobody agonizes over spending a token. They've already paid, the cash is gone, so now they actually use the product instead of ...