I don’t think a lot of people who are in the know have any expectation of this turning around and going well, but I don’t blame anyone for hoping it will. The existing communities that are uprooted from all this, not to mention the headaches of signing up for new platforms and all that entails, aren’t exactly ideal. Avoiding them from being necessary would be fantastic… alas, that hope is indeed slim.

Indeed, if the prices were reasonable this would not be a problem. I believe that the Apollo developer even said as much (or maybe it was rif’s developer - or neither and I’m just imagining it) - and I have no objection to it either, the servers aren’t free to run after all. But the rate the used? It’s just absolutely fucking incomprehensible.

The shitty treatment of third party developers is just the unmentionable icing on this already disgusting cake.