Comment by qwery

> The article has plenty of current examples of developers doing this on Steam now that are not at all outliers or an exception.

It also was framed heavily around John Romero and id, which is what I was talking about in that paragraph.

> Calling all of them exceptions sounds like a poor excuse.

I'd probably agree, but I'm not sure who is calling all of them exceptions or what doing so would be an excuse for.