Bargaining power

It’s a choice of subscription or one time purchase

Listed on stock exchanges instead of owned by private shareholders.

Yeah I agree completely, but we shouldn’t kid ourselves that companies are going to go bankrupt because a minority of users are absolutist about in-game ads, or will sacrifice social connections to avoid using Meta products.

In these cases an individual can act for any number of valid reasons, but it takes a much bigger collective action to influence the outcome, which requires a much bigger reason/scandal.

They’ve got EA Sports FC (formerly FIFA) and madden though, they’re never going to die.

Yeah for sure, I think the user had to provide keys in the latest Yuzu anyway?

It was donation builds with support for tears of the kingdom before released that screwed the project. The code itself was legal afaik.

My understanding is the prod keys are required to tell the software (e.g. games) that it is running on an authorised device and passes certain checks / DRM.

To run the software without prod keys would require (I think) patching each game individually to skip those checks. So it could be possible but wildly impractical unless some other work around is found.

When the homies fix corporate compensation by inventing RSUs 😎💰