So your viable alternative is for the customers to just get screwed by some shysty company that rolled out a beta as a GOLD release game? Maybe we should pay M

So your viable alternative is for the customers to just get screwed by some shysty company that rolled out a beta as a GOLD release game? Maybe we should pay MORE for them taking the time to sell me a product, that I came to rely on, then suddenly, there is now a subscription model? Not because of costs, not because of added services, but because PROFIT. You have a point, but this lacks the context that caused people to stop being shafted more and more and MOAR, making it more pollyanna, than useful, imo. YMMV.