So any consumer of content deserves simply scorn and 
  ridicule?

That's not what I said--please don't put words in my mouth. I did not expand my definition to include any consumer of content, and I did not suggest anything other than that developers have no reason to view their target audience as anything other than entities paying for their product--they have no reason to see them as people with feelings and emotions, they have no reason to see them as independent creative beings, they have no reason to see them as anything other than actors in a marketplace.

Forgive me for not according to gamers qualities that on the whole we can't know.

(and, hazarding a guess from your username: come now, what would Heinlen say about your imprecision of argument?)