As someone who's said companies exist to make money, I'd like to explain what I've always meant by it, and what every person I've heard say it meant by it:
Saying companies exist to make money is a reality not a defense. It shouldn't be meant as any crooked action they take is acceptable, so long as they are profitable. It should be meant as if a corporation takes a crooked action to be profitable, and we the consumers support that decision we should expect more of it in the future, because many corporations will take that action since it worked. In a free-market economy (as much so as it is anyways), every party has to work in their own best interest, if consumers fail to do so it gives these corporations the incentive to give us less and less to make more and more. This isn't a defense of the corporation or stating that that is in anyway noble, its just a fact that it will happen. Personally, I find on disc dlc & companies double dipping with market models like freemium + an initial charge, hell even most implementations of straight up freemium, highly offensive; that's why I don't buy those games, and I find it more offensive that people buy the products that support those actions than the actions themselves.
This is a generalization, I understand that no matter how many times consumers support horrible product guaranteeing more of the same, there will always be a handful of companies that are in it for other reasons like to make a good product, but these are outliers.
Saying companies exist to make money is a reality not a defense. It shouldn't be meant as any crooked action they take is acceptable, so long as they are profitable. It should be meant as if a corporation takes a crooked action to be profitable, and we the consumers support that decision we should expect more of it in the future, because many corporations will take that action since it worked. In a free-market economy (as much so as it is anyways), every party has to work in their own best interest, if consumers fail to do so it gives these corporations the incentive to give us less and less to make more and more. This isn't a defense of the corporation or stating that that is in anyway noble, its just a fact that it will happen. Personally, I find on disc dlc & companies double dipping with market models like freemium + an initial charge, hell even most implementations of straight up freemium, highly offensive; that's why I don't buy those games, and I find it more offensive that people buy the products that support those actions than the actions themselves.
This is a generalization, I understand that no matter how many times consumers support horrible product guaranteeing more of the same, there will always be a handful of companies that are in it for other reasons like to make a good product, but these are outliers.