It wasn't even to release on their software platform, it was more explicitly a "non-Steam" release as games were available on PC via both Epic and Microsoft's Store.
You say that as if we don't want other people to enjoy the game that's there. It's not a difficult thing to sympathize that these mob votes are a needlessly frustrating thing.
We can just wait for the mod that recreates Skyrim in Starfield.
I see you person from 2027 looking back at this post finding statements to prove how they were lying when they said this.
It took them a week to make a tweet saying basically nothing?
Most of the people whinging about censorship
To further add on that, to complain about censorship for a mod that LITERALLY censors the game.
An uninstallation fee for users to prevent them from defrauding devs by repeatedly reinstalling.
Not to mention that it's such a sudden announcement. I mean, sure, they gave people 3 months notice in advance, but when you consider the scale of many games probably take longer than 3 months to make the decision AND actually make the switch (or make up for the switch), it's cause for quite a bit of harm.
Granted, the majority of people may not be affected by it due to needing to meet a requirement of like earning $200,000 and 200,000 installs at a minimum, but I feel like the once you reach that, it's just downhill from there.
In addition to your example of costing the devs for reinstalling the game, you now have to consider the possibility of a user (or group of users) maliciously reinstalling their games to financially damage the developer. Sure, Unity says they'll have fraud detection for stuff like that, but then it's literally up to the people you owe money to decide whether you should pay more or less money to them.
Honestly, what do you expect someone to say when asked a question like that? There's no answer there.
Yeah, it really can't be helped. The piracy community can always just shut down and congregate elsewhere. It's significantly harder for a more general community to scatter and reform.
I mean, it's less about the coins and more about something that has an equivalent monetary value being wiped without any compensation whatsoever.
Wait a minute, hold up, this wasn't in the game unless you have that?