There's a huge perception that gamers are exclusively white-middle-class-strait-males, and that anyone who calls them self a gamer is most likely in that category, and therefore we can make assumptions about who they are as a result. Now, that doesn't mean you have this perspective, just that there's an outsider view…

If it's o.k. for companies to make money in ways that I find distasteful (skinner boxes, unlock codes, w/e.) because they're money making operations.

What happens when a publisher you hate is publishing a game from a developer you love? (or vice versa)

Capital is important in realizing a new world where people of color can access their own subjectivity in game, but I think you've accidentally made the perfect the enemy of the good.

TL;DR: They're both bad, but in different ways.