The spin here is indeed dead...

I too have been a journalist of video games since the 70s.

There have been multiple reassurances that if Steam goes belly up that the users will be given a way to make most of their games DRM free and download to keep backups.

This is the same as losing your disks in a fire.

Same here. Won’t buy it on Epic. There’s enough of a sour taste in my mouth to where I might not buy it on steam either (did something similar with Diablo 3, bought it only on PS4 but bought it used). That said I don’t think it will work. Enough people will still buy BL3 on that storefront for our votes to not matter.…

Nope. You should be ignoring it completely, being entirely complacent about changes that negatively impact a fun past time.

I can just hear faint echos from the past of a similarly measured comment about DLC and how so and so gamer preferred expansions but also thought his fellow gamers shouldn’t be huffy and puffy about DLC as a model.

What you’re describing would be a climb out of the console exclusivity shithole. What we're witnessing is PC gaming's descent into a similar shithole instead. Exclusivity, in all its forms (including steam exclusivity), is anti consumer.

He’s seeing this gif ...