The Coil's little parable has been picked up on both the Usenet (first) and (later) Battlefront forums. On the latter, it certainly has Steve (and a few others) jumping around like they had just sat on fire ant mound.
Perhaps more interesting and enlightening is this from Steve:
"From a business perspective, we don't care if anybody plays a single game purchase of ours after... oh... I dunno... 6 months or so. Anything beyond that is a freebie since even at 6 months the price paid is ridiculously low compared to other forms of entertainment, especially movies and run-of-the-mill games. Which means we have absolutely no concern for people who expect to play the game for year after year. If they do, great, if they don't we have no motivation to do more. Nor should any reasonable person expect us to do more. Slavery and indentured servitude is illegal where we live, not to mention immoral."
Link:
http://www.battlefront.com/community...2&postcount=37
Now that BF games/modules come wrapped in DRM, will they remain playable years down the line?