I don't agree with the picking sides thing. It for me steams back to console days where maybe you couldn't have it all and could only afford one particular product. So you defend the one you can get as the best thing since sliced bread.
What I have come to realize with age and more responsibility is. That although I can afford and have many of the sims on the market, I can't enjoy all of them equally. That meaning I can take my limited time and focus on one or two and extract the most fun from that instead of trying to support everyone and having no time for any of them. I found myself doing to much of the latter. I have tons of game in my steam library that haven't even been installed. Trying to support everyone has diluted my actual enjoyment.
So I have changed gears and will vocally give support but refrain from always opening my wallet for every game released.
Some excellent and truthful posts on there.
I saw something somewhere where one bloke had invested $40,000.00. Thinking he was gonna get some of the profits but when reading the info seemed a bit sketchy it was all very vague and some of the figures they were quoting just didn't add up.
For a game I did dislike a year ago because I hated the handling physics , it now has won me over , I shocked how good it feels now , and its getting better and better , but I have no time for the smart- ars developers , not a friendly department at all IMO .