Don't let any company which chose to get involved in this blatant scam get exonerated just because they dumped it later. They still tried to pull the scam in the first place, and they only dropped it because they didn't make any money on it, not because it was a scam.
Always remember this.
Firefox + ublock still works perfectly fine for me.
The main figures mentioned are from 2000-2019. So definitely no COVID involved.
The Banshees of Inisherin. I expected a comedy from the reviews, not something this dark.
You are making the mistake of conflating game quality with profit. He did not lessen the profitability of the games, on the contrary, and that is what the board cares about, not the quality of games.
They have a very dedicated flock of whales (the industry term for microtransaction addicts). They know they have them hooked, and they are obviously intent on bleeding those whales dry for everything they own.
I don't care how much I liked a game, if any publisher acted in this way I would never consider touching any of their games. This is absolutely criminal behaviour.
But why be so needlessly cruel?
They are catering to the core beliefs of their voters.
"The game isn't boring for the reasons that you think, it is boring for these completely secret reasons."
Ok.
The "but the game is good now" people are the ones who showed him he can do exactly the same thing again without any serious repercussions.
Yes, those poor scammers, won't somebody think of them?
But they always intended to make it better and gradually did, because they are an actual gaming company with actual devs. The "devs" of The Day Before never did.
That is only very selectively true though, considering that the party responsible for starting those wars is the one playing pacifist now. And if there is one thing we know about GOP it is that they are definitely not pacifist
It is just a very poor excuse by disingenous liars.