Verno wrote on Jun 15, 2011, 13:03:
The effect on the consumer is certainly less drastic. Whether it's morally ok in a business context is kind of besides the point here. Valve has a mechanism for allowing their products to be offered by competitors, we can argue all day whether its a good one or not and whether it was designed with too much self-interest but its there. EA isn't doing that here, they are actively singling out and excluding a specific competitor. It's a different situation regardless of how you or anyone else feels about the players involved.

You just listed several reasons why you should be against this and the only reason you seem to be supporting it is because Steam is involved. Its exactly the kind of emotional response people are accusing you of in the first place. Whether people think of themselves as a "steam gamer" or how you interpret their behavior on forums has nothing to do with the situation.