Why aren't people applauding Ubisoft for adapting their business and products to their audience (people that want to play games but don't want to pay -- and tho

Why aren't people applauding Ubisoft for adapting their business and products to their audience (people that want to play games but don't want to pay -- and those that do want to pay, can)? Because it is a "terrible dis-service to gamers"? Suppose I pirate all my games, what do I gain from F2P? A worse experience with constant nagging about buying useless crap. Suppose I buy all my games, what do I gain from F2P? A worse experience with constant nagging about buying useless crap. A got sick to my stomach for buying Battlefield 3 Premium, why? What I wanted was the expansion packs but to get that I had to pay for having double XP events, strategy guides, ability to reset stats etc. etc. If paying for something makes the play-field uneven you have effectively destroyed the value for both free and paying players. Piracy is a problem (but one illegally downloaded game does not equal a lost sale, I'd also be interested in knowing how many hours are being played on pirated vs. bought games). DRM does not hinder piracy, but it hurts paying players. If you have no DRM then no one will suffer from it (also you don't have to implement it and you won't have to fear the backlash from it). Free to play is a terrible dis-service to gamers. F2P is good for discoverability, it lowers the barrier to trying. In the old days we had something similar that we called a demo. The equivalent of today is to pirate the game and see if it is worth it. Now the barrier to buying is even higher since you'd have to take care of any progress made, uninstall, buy, install, redo all your settings and progress. Not defending it, but that is often the only way to try a game today - and with all the crap that's being produced wanting to try it out before buying is understandable.