Partly true statements, and while there are rich kids who would have their parents throw money for their micro transactions and wouldn’t hesitate to throw equal amounts for an entry fee for their side project, I still think money talks either tough or soft. In steam’s case perhaps we will never really know until it is put to the test, even a temporary period would show some stats about how it would be working.
And if that period was allowed to take place then raising prices argument would’ve been the last one they would hear, as human intervention would be the go to and one that Steam doesn’t wish to take.
I’m saying it wouldn’t have hurt to try for the sake of the bigger picture, say one year period would be a good assessment time.
All this is just talk on behalf of all of us but it’s good to have a discussion from time to time.