A publisher would need money also... As what you said, need money to pay to the chinese, but its not only that. They still need to pay for the server, for their employees. And just because they are publisher doesn't mean they doesn't have any dev inside their team, who did you think change the language to english? The oasis dev did that, and when they change the language, lots of the game code need to be changed also. That sometimes make a lot of bug that different than the chinese version, and its the oasis dev that fix it. Fyi fixing bug is not easy, its very hard thing to do. And just a little info, of course the chinese version give more free stuff, because more people spent money in there, the chinese people spend far more money th*. Since they get more money, they can give more free stuff to the player.

I agree with you for one thing though, that oasis didnt smart on their business, but that doesnt mean they should give free stuff as much as chinese. It's 2 different company, they have different way to handle their server, and as what i said before, chinese get more income than oasis, far more, which make them able to give more free stuff than oasis.

Regarding the tricking thing, if you talking about the sunflower event, its not tricking, they make some mistake about the ranking, which is a game bug, they didnt do it on purpose. Yes they didnt do a good job on giving compensation to player, even though its their mistake. But calling them tricking player is false.