Quote Originally Posted by SturmChurro View Post
This quote is particularly unforgivable:

I guess it's like community, like devs. To me it is extremely passive-aggressive, and unprofessional.

Devs and consumers are not a one-sided relationship, and consumers shouldn't be "grateful" for everything. We pay for a product, in that case I assume people may have paid for tickets, hotel, etc... Devs nowadays seem to have forgotten WE, as consumers, are the reason they have a job. If we decided to stop buying their products, they would learn very quickly.

Then you are assuming that professional behavior doesn't apply to the average dev? It does. They represent the company whether they like it or not, whether they have a blue checkmark or not.
I think you are under some sort of misunderstanding. The people at these conferences, unless they are on a development panel, are not devs. They do not work on the development of the game. A dev is separate from the community team.