Ahhhh, TV tropes. Now there's a site that's eaten a fair few hours of my life.
On the subject of the article, incidentally - It's a multi-billion dollar company doing what many of them are: Something going bad, let's point to piracy.
UbiSoft did the same, defending their atrocious always-online bullshit by saying "It's a raging success!"
A week later they released a press statement going "We're switching things up because 95% will be pirated anyway."
NEWSFLASH, UbiSoft. You do not get to claim your pathetic excuse for DRM is a success and then instantly turn around and whine about PIRACY, you IDIOTS!