It's really obvious, but people don't want to see it and this article won't change it. Gamers tend to get pretty emotional, which isn't all that surprising since many of them are very young. They don't care about downsides, they don't even see it. They will cheer for their "team" no matter what. Nothing you can do about it.
I remember when steam was new that everybody hated it. Everyone got Half-Life for free when installing Steam and still nobody wanted it. A big argument was that steam would be killing the used market - exactly what happened just a few years later. With time people just got used to it. Doesn't help that most other services suck very hard at emulating the core functions of steam.
But anyway, every major company in gaming is trying to squeeze money out of their users. They have all shown that very openly in the past. Be it Valve, Microsoft, Sony, EA, Activision or Nintendo. There's really no point in defending any of them. But people will continue to do so. Just don't let it get to you, play the games, have fun and make decisions for yourself. I refused to use steam for a long time, but in the end couldn't avoid it. I'm only buying at keystores, not steam directly. I also prefer games from GOG with no DRM, sadly you only find so many titles there. I will not however defend steam or what they are doing.
The only ones we as gamers should care about, are the gamers themselves. Let the companies worry about themselves.
唯一無二のRolStoppableに認められた、VGCの任天堂ファミリーの正式メンバーです。光栄に思います。
