@matrixIts not about money, its about power in my mind. They want to make sure you can't go back and enjoy the good old games without agendas, high RAM requirements, sneaky microtransactions etc. They want to acclimatize you to shitty games and shit mechanics, they want you to forget the fact games used to be a work of passion, by a small group of dedicated autists.
Once you forget, they can put out all the crappy games they want and you won't know you're being fucked over because you don't know what it used to be. What it could have been ...