I owe no loyalty to a corporation or it workers, to any developer or their plight. Our transaction was, and always has been, products for money. If you decided to twist it up in your head that the deal was "Perpetual freedom to do/make whatever I want and paid for out of someone else`s pocket" then you have put yourself into that mistaken position, not me. If you want to make games as art or games for the fun of it, do what I do and get a dayjob and make them on the side.
If you decide that you want videogames to be how you make ends meet, make a product I want. If you decide to tie yourself to corpo masters who won't let you do that, leave them. I have no sympathy for a developer who wants both the comfort of a corporate overlord fiscally, but none of the responsibility for the product or outcome - They cannot force you to make a bad game, they can only threaten to take away that which you voluntarily accepted. "I didn't want to do it, but I wanted to make my mortgage payment" is an understandable explanation, but I'm not going to excuse you for fucking me out of my money with that kind of explanation. If you are so convinced that you know better than both the corporate interests and the audience interests, finance your own studio and project, and prove it.
These people aren't worth your sympathy or pity, they chose this life, because they felt that the other options were just too hard for them. We have no obligation to provide them an easy life.
