Okay, proper answer time:
I still like SEGA and I will always like SEGA.
Firstly, taking nostalgia into it, nothing will take away the past 20+ years of enjoyment that the company has brought me. Sure there were hard times (the end of the Genesis era, the death of the Dreamcast, the murky 2005-2007 era) but there was just so much goodness that the company gave me that I'll never forget and can never stop enjoying. We may not be seeing games like JSRF or Panzer Dragoon Orta in 2013, but that doesn't stop me from booting up my Xbox and enjoying those titles. From that standpoint, I have all the great memories and I can revisit them whenever I want.
Secondly, there is the huge amount of titles and hardware that I have yet to experience. Looking at current gen, I've yet to even experience any of the PS3 SEGA exclusives. Looking back, I've yet to experience anything pre-Genesis outside of emulators. Even if something is of the past, it's still new to me. So in that sense, I love all the unseen retro and modern goodness that SEGA has to offer me.
Thirdly, while SEGA's output has reduced in the third party era, there are still plenty of quality titles. Back when we recorded our 2+ hours podcast revisiting ten years of third party SEGA games, I was reminded of how great the first few years were (see my first point above). But I was also reminded of how bad the middle years got. 2005-2008 were pretty bad, with the latter half of '08 starting to get better. So many awful outsourced sequels to classic IPs. So many failed licensed titles (*cough*MARVEL*cough*). So many in-house titles that failed to impress. However, '09 to '13 have been a lot of fun as a SEGA fan. The digital rereleases are very well done (the Monster World Vintage Collection, Guardian Heroes, Sonic CD, Sonic 1, JSR, and SA2), the Sonic franchise is great again (Colors and Generations, the upcoming Lost World), SEGA Japan has produced some really cool looking titles (PSO2, Yakuza 5).
Of course I have complaints about the company, but from my perspective you're equating more complaints with less liking towards the company. It just doesn't work that way for me. I have the great memories that will make me a fan for life, I have the long un-ticked checklist of games and hardware I've yet to experience, and I have the modern era which I've enjoyed for the past five years.
So yeah, I still like SEGA and always will.
Honestly as a blogging point of a view, SEGA is getting boring. I mean, a few titles. This is what I bitched they should have done a couple of years ago, go with fewer titles but push them hard.
I totally see where you're coming from, and I partially agree. We've gone weeks without much newsworthy stuff to share. However I don't want to proclaim 2013 as a miss when SEGA has surprised us in the past with unexpected reveals of titles. We won't be seeing Shenmue III this year, but we very well could see some mystery titles (as our SKU list tells us) as well as more digital rereleases announced in the coming days/months.
Also, when the modern stuff gets light, I've found shifting focus to retro stuff fulfills more than enough content to write about. Really, I don't think SEGA blogging every gets boring if you shift your focus when need be.
