What's the point of the article other than being cringingly self indulgent and self aggrandising?
No, publishers look like a fairly rational business who made the decision that they no longer wanted to extend preferential treatment to another business that they felt had broken faith with them. Thats how working relationships between business' work, there's nothing "childish" about it. People assigning emotions such as "spite" or "childishness" to a business decision strikes me as bizarre, though par for the course I suppose.
they are not 'entitled' to special treatment. they don't even need 'special treatment' because apparently they can buy their own games. publishers still nonetheless look childish in the face of criticism.
No, publishers look like a fairly rational business who made the decision that they no longer wanted to extend preferential treatment to another business that they felt had broken faith with them. Thats how working relationships between business' work, there's nothing "childish" about it. People assigning emotions such as "spite" or "childishness" to a business decision strikes me as bizarre, though par for the course I suppose.