Didn't John Connor befriend the second IA he find?
It looks like you believe that EULA rewrite the law; big news: that's not how things works. EULA could add something like
...AND, SOMETIME, WE'LL BARGE IN YOUR HOUSE AND TAKE STUFF WE LIKE.
After you have accepted the EULA and they trespass in your house stealing stuff, you know what will happen?
They end up in jail for stealing the same as any common thieves.
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What’s the downside?
Customer manipulation.
You could say "of course don't affect me" to FOMO, p2w, whales, dark patterns and alike... but just because you personally ignore it, it doesn't mean it's going to vanish. Industries live and evolve through money, the next iteration of video gaming is made by where money went.
LoL players came from a mod of Warcraft III; Riot is slowly cooking (put in warm-to-boil water) their frog customers in something people don't consider healthy (generally with "they are them, not me, so I don't care").
typo in the title fixed (message for the future internet person reading this thread and not getting the reference)
other results:
Best Technology - The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Best Design - Baldur's Gate 3 Best Debut - Venba Ambassador Award - Fawzi Mesmar Best Visual Art - Alan Wake 2 Best Narrative - Baldur's Gate 3 Innovation - The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Audience Award - Baldur's Gate 3 Social Impact Award - Venba Lifetime Achievement Award - Yoko Shimomura Best Audio - Hi-Fi Rush
I've now edited the title to reflect that.
They would do a lot better if Japanese companies would stop with the shitty DRM and provide actual support for the games they release.
We're still talking about big companies: that issue it's more about shareholders, CEOs usually can't go there and say "we didn't sell because our game suck". They need to say something on the line "dam pirates!".
Pocket Pair (Palworld) is a Japanese company that currently doesn't have to face the shareholder issue.
If you ever played Pen&Paper Battleship as child, you already know what a Vector2 is (Vector2i more precisely), it just didn't click yet.