I’m not really a gamer, so I could be wrong here. However, TBF they’re selling games cheaply, but I assume they’re having to pay who-knows-what to license them (never mind their own staff to bring the games up to par with today’s hardware). Maybe the IP owners have started turning the screws?

I think the practice really took off with the arrival of AI & people not wanting their stuff harvested for training it. My personal feeling might be considered rather defeatist, but I don’t see the point in doing that because they’re going to feed whatever they can get their hands on to the AI beast, and so I’d rather have at least some miniscule influence over what it regurgitates to others.

Ugh - that numpad would drive me crazy with the truncated zero key. I’d always be hitting the right arrow. If you’re going to have a numpad, don’t fuck with the proper layout!