If the artist uses a payment system many people don't like and won't use then they will make less money than if that had stuck with tradition... its a gamble for them and people have the right to say something is to expensive or inappropriate for them (in regard to the payment method) we are the consumer not the consumed

See this is the mentality of the majority of gamers and the majority of the people who are ignorant as to the cost of games. Back in the old days you knock out 6 characters for around the same price as costs for even a single character now a days. They could throw in unlock able characters easily because it would just be a programmers afternoon whipping up a new character and tossing them in. I miss the old days don't get me wrong I miss the mystique and mystery behind games before the days of the internet. But to want games to have the higher fidelity that we're used to now a days and have the sheer abundance of content of days long past eating your cake and wanting it too. Theirs a ceiling that devs have to combat with that players are extremely ignorant of. And that is cost ceiling, sure we can one day have consoles powerful enough to create true 1:1 photorealism but do you have any idea how much a game with all that fidelity and a scale of a modern game would cost?!?! This same problem applies to your qualms with content for example it'd be suicide for DH to put millions of dollars into KI and have a roster of 24 characters and only have a few people buy it. But piecing the game out over it's development cycle can gauge player interest. Hell the best example of this is League of Legends. Riot was a young start up studio do you think they could have released a game until it had it's current roster of 107 characters?!?! No. SO they released with 12. And over the course of time people bought into what they want out of the game. And it's the colossal juggernaut of it's genre because of it. Pricing models like this are developers way of getting through that price ceiling and delivering the breadth of content the player base can sustain. Would I like to see them dump millions into KI and release a HUGE character roster with tons of content even if it meant the studio would go under if enough people didn't buy it? I guess, but then again that would make me a HUGE ENTITLED CRYBABY BRAT!

You are assuming all gamers want that higher fidelity. Sure its nice to have but I will take content and story over a graphically impressive game any day of the week.

I believe this is why there is a rise in indie development popularity right now. Its nice to have games that are visually stunning but some gamers still crave that old 16 bit experience and now we can have it in indie games, just much more polished. Unfortunately some of them to have awkward pay structures but not all.

Maybe its the devs who are somewhat ignorant, not of this ceiling you mention but of the sweet spot between large worlds, gameplay and graphics.... things don't have to be pushed to the limits to be enjoyed