LogFAQs > #966215108

The game will have paid for itself by the end of the year, and their reputation is already in the gutter, so this is basically the best thing they can do. There's no point in apologizing, because this is exactly what they always intended to do and they're not going to change it. There's no point in defending it either, because that will just make people angrier.

With the Microsoft acquisition underway, they basically have a blank check to wring their fan base for as much money as possible between now and the acquisition being completed. All that will get swept into a pre-microsoft pile and collectively forgotten.