“Let me write off any dissent or criticism against the store mounts as crying.”. /s
Sadly to those people, they never take that into account. 
“Oh you can get it for free!” …except the token has to exist in order to get it for free. Somebody has to buy it for you. Yeah, you don’t have to pay for it, but i don’t see how that’s truly free if you need to rely on another person buying it just so you can keep playing the game for free. If you can truly play the game for free, and i don’t mean free trials or demos, the full game for free, you don’t have to do really anything, it should be free by default. Sadly, anything that is free always have a sort of catch.
I do appreciate you being pro-gamer and pro-consumer here Pebrock. 