It's not that it required community outrage it bring it to Valve's attention, necessarily; sometimes fixing problems involving business and business relationshi

It's not that it required community outrage it bring it to Valve's attention, necessarily; sometimes fixing problems involving business and business relationships just takes more time than folks want/expect. When a product is released with a simple bug, it's usually not the users complaining for hours nonstop about it that gets it fixed (though sometimes it is), but that it takes time to debug, fix, test, and ship the fixed version. The same thing often applies to business decisions like this.