They’ll just sit on some of those titles that were never developed any further. Like Command and Conquer.

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

The Command and Conquer series has only a few or no equivalent right now, as far as I know.

There is INZOI, which should be superior to the Sims series, but its hardware requirements are very demanding.

Despite the existence of superior racing sims, some people still play NFSU2 but enhanced with mods.

I’m saying because in some places people like the games more than the corporation owning those titles (and sitting on, while keep on selling the games with the loot boxes), they’ll just pirate those copies.

Why you might as well sail and get a fixed pack for basically free.

Makes me think why Houthis and the Iranians hate them. Not just sectarian but also wanton excesses of kingdom.

Sail the high seas.

All they want is maximum profits with the minimum of cost. Even if someone has to die for those techbros.

I would like to add that why they’re so open for the scumfuck is because they want to ditch what they see as “troublesome” and “costly” progressive programs aka DEI; they would like to restore conservatism in the tech industry like in the 80s, the so-called “natural order of things” that is, white men in top positions while women and minorities clean up the mess.

Makes me think why those big tech corporations are suddenly supportive of that regime in DC.

The suits always dictate what sells, and they’ll look for anything that would keep revenue coming.

They’ve been playing the very long game of trying to control human behavior for centuries, not just decades. The one thing to note is that the United States began as a bunch of colonies run by ministers, and the fundies want to go back to that theocratic form of rule. That by the 19th century the temperance movement came from the dozens of Christian subsects. Yeah, they also extended it to anything that did not define as “Christian” behavior, including choice of ideologies (socialism = bad), gender (male or female = good), source of knowledge (Bible > science), beliefs (they have veiled Islamophobia), and even eating and sexual habits.

Now – based on their basic blueprint – they want to artificially induce the Second Coming by trying to get their fucking project off the ground, and impose control on everyone else.

BTW, any collapse or devolution of the United States and the Western world would come off as a wonderful realization for Putin, Dugin, Kyrill, and their cronies. That Jesus himself in his actual Middle Eastern appearance and acts of progressivism would be considered an enemy by fundies expecting a “whitened” Jesus.

Oh, definitely as Jobs practically created a personality cult, putting Woz literally behind the curtains.

When ordinary people talk about creative geniuses who make innovative devices that change the course of history, most cases they’ll talk about Jobs, believing he came up with ideas for most if not all the gadgets that makes Apple a known fashion tech brand… despite Woz being responsible for designing and building the first Apple desktop.

He is, just that he made ultraconservative statements in his own website, but deleted them later and disabled the site from being archived.

Not just a thief, the bastard thinks he’s better than the entirety of Bethesda.

Not just mods but also other fanworks – such as fanfiction, fanart, etc. – in that creatives will go to great lengths to protect their work, and start huge flamewars, despite being obviously derivative reinterpretation of the original.

Ever since he got control of the patch, it made him kind of “authoritative”, even looking pretty in the eyes of Bethesda 'cause he thinks himself as more “loremonger” than the loremakers, but really flipped his lid upon seeing Obama won.

Also clearly a narcissist.

There is an audience for such games. Mainly for them to blow off steam and try to see if they’re a better crack shot than anyone, and sometimes to acquire a degree of fame. They have spent enormous amounts of money hoping to land more shots at a higher framerate.

I’m now more content quietly playing an offline sandbox game, no rush at all.

That corporation is still operating as if they’re in the 80s, going by their “good old Showa values”: heavy-handed proprietary control of their content and platforms, while making heavy use of nostalgia and its properties to keep the money coming in from casual gamers.