: I believe I took it the way you meant it - a joke meant to illustrate your
: disagreement (not unlike "The Vagueness wants to HUNT"). I would
: love to hear you defend your point, actually, because I'm inclined to
: believe you could make a reasonable case. Fact is, it's a difference of
: opinion with a side of pedantry on my part (the pedantry being mainly
: along the "purity of language" vector as it pertains to the use
: of the word "exclusive").

: At the end of the day, the eventual unlocking of exclusives is
: de-exclusivising; we're just not supposed to mind anymore. And, truth be
: told, I don't - it's demanding that they be unlocked which I mind more.

Well I would prefer they not be exclusive or "exclusive" or "timed" or whatever in the first place, and if they're dead-set on keeping people out, I really want them (game companies) to only do it for a while.
The thing about launch-time-only content (or worse, pre-launch-only content) is you can say it only bothers people who weren't into the game (or series or developer) when it came out, or who didn't want to dish out the extra money, or who are just plain jealous or like to complain, but having it and not making it available in other ways locks the content out for everyone from the day after it launches to the end of the universe.
Well, OK, not so much really, because piracy and emulation are moving forward just like gaming, and the copyrights on the content, the game, and the console, will (presumably, hopefully) run out eventually. So there are two contradictory reasons: you're keeping almost everyone, if you look at it in the long run, from having it, for a few people to feel special, and you're not really keeping anyone from having it for that long.
You could say those cancel out but I think they provide twice as much reason not to have launch exclusives, and that still means anywhere from a few years to several decades or even over a century (with current US copyright laws) before anyone who can have the game can legally have all the content. Then again, the copyrights on the game and the exclusives would presumably run out at the same time, so you wouldn't be able to get the game for free until you can do the same with the extra content, but what about that content? Is there any guarantee it's still out there years or decades later, long after it's been possible to buy it, long after the game was last sold, long after the console was manufactured or sold, maybe even long after the companies involved disappeared? They say anything on the Internet is there forever and there are some intrepid souls out there trying to archive everything, some even including video game content, but I wouldn't want to rely on that-- assuming I'm still alive when I can freely get the content.