Thanks, that is interesting. I used to be 2000+ rated for AOE1 on zone.com and 1400+ chess on Yahoo! games back in late 90s, and to me it is a point of contention that I often bring up because chess is not motivated by capital greed whereas microsoft and their game studios are. And the dissimilarity between two games is pretty obvious to anyone who plays above 700 ranks.
What does MS market position have to do with the design of the game, it's not like it has any sort of monetization within the game mechanics at all.
You are conflating so much BS that it shows a profound lack of understand of both game mechanics and dare i say market economics.
It appears that you've rapped yourself up in some anti market bubble of cognitive disonance and can not longer think straight, I'm sorry for your pain.
