Sure, I'll have a good long think about it. With pleasure. When we allow fandom to have disproportionate reactions to inconsequential slights (like saying a broken auction house is a "wound that never healed"), we permit even uglier things to flourish. 
Pitts' take here is embarrassingly bad for several reasons, but one I'll speak to at length is the charge that this is a "knee-jerk response from the games press and other observers" who reflexively "attack fans expressing disappointment."
First and foremost, I and many, many other journos and critics were on the same side as angry gamers who were criticising EA and other companies for predatory MTX and lootbox practises. If we were "knee-jerk" I highly doubt that would've been the case.
Secondly, I've strongly criticised the gaming press when I feel it's merited. Right out the gate at Gama, in my very first column there, I charged them (us) with fuelling video gaming's destructive hype culture. I do not shrink from such arguments.
Thirdly, trying to shoehorn evo psych into this (yes, that actually happened) is a transparent attempt to lend authority to an otherwise thin argument that critical journalism is tantamount to gossip (hm, where have we heard that before?)
The fact is that it's a *problem* that player passion leads to this incredible hatred, that we use these overwrought, violent terms to describe what should be no more than mild disappointment. How the hell can you be "betrayed" by Blizzard? They're not your friends.
I love video games. Dearly. Have done, always will. And yet I can never find it in me to muster up the sheer overwhelming hatred some of these people display. They were harassing BlizzCon streamers, for goodness sake. It's overwrought, disproportionate, and excessive.
It's fine to be disappointed in a game. I've been disappointed by so many gaming announcements but I don't lash out. There's a lot of water between "disappointment" and what we've seen this week.
I have wounds that never healed properly: a shitty video game launch isn't among them.
