“We are looking into a way to turn this into multiple subscription services focused on getting you to gamble that will be allowed in our primary markets.”

The peak happened 2 years after the release, a period where they saw a massive growth as their incomplete game hit, and then saturated it’s market. The majority of the decline is being blamed on the unexpectedly high costs of the the phantom liberty DLC, and the studio’s backlash to the first release’s crunch culture. CP2077 coming out incomplete didn’t sway their customer base, leading to investors backing off. The cost of the follow-up caused investor stress, especially because of the internal strife of crunch culture, which lead to major parts of their dev teams leaving to be competition. This is what has lead investors to cash out, and thus devalue their stock. It wasn’t the incomplete game release that rocketed them to all time highs. That move saw crazy successful sales.

That is the lesson their investment board learned. It caused strife in the company because of the divide it showcased between those who made the company, and those who own it.

A launch that taught companies they can in fact release unfinished games and still outsell everything they have previously done

I just looked a bit more into this. There is a whole history of scrutinizing Nexon’s material and then screen capping single frames of animation to “prove” they are sneaking in this “misandrist” hand gesture. Looking at a back log of these this is on the level of those people presenting a single frame of someone like Beyonce on stage, and claiming what they captured clearly shows she is making satanic hand gestures.

I agree to a point. However there are groups that are all bad, and everyone associated is bad. They are cultural cancer. Also, a lot of countries, organizations, ideological groupings, etc. may not be all bad, the mundanity of evil and all, but their bad actions are such that any good they did was nullified.

I can make it easy, there are no good guys

Yes, but didn’t you know, it doesn’t matter the kinds of atrocities they are responsible for, if they don’t like the US they are the good guys.

I mean, if you’re gonna use a hammer for building IKEA furniture, instead of hamming, like hammers are clearly designed for, it’s your own fault.

Any point of origin is going to introduce its own biases, whether they intend to or not. The solution is to have AI development be decentralized, and have as many points of origin as possible. After introduction most of the bias seen will be a result of the majority of the information it is encycloping.

I wish

Recently an economist, who writes for an economics paper in China, showed a billion people in China lived on 280 USD, or less, per month, which would mean most of China’s population is still in poverty, and their 800 million number was either not true, or that there was a big back slide they have been covering up. He used meta-data from Chinese academic institutes, and the CCP’s own reports.

Since that report went viral on Weibo, then the west, the CCP, and foreign groups they operate through, have nearly erased it. When you would search for “billion people in china still in poverty” Google would have like 10 links to articles about it. Now it is buried down page, behind a dozen or so links about China lifting varying numbers of people from poverty. The ones still there are from only less reputable, or less known, sites. So getting to the citation, that is real, is basically dead.

China’s response has changed, been contradictory, and has mostly become vague sentiments of anti-Chinese interests.

It went from numerous, well established, media outlets, to me being able to only find this trash article about the censorship on trash newsweek.

The framing is real shit, but the direct info about Li, and what happened are there. However it was originally reported in Caixin, which is a mainstream Chinese financial paper. It wasn’t even a hit piece. The guy was citing their demographics issues, plateauing growth, aging population, stress on funds to elderly, etc. He even says that the CCP is very competent in that regard, and projected that, taking this information into mind, they could still double their GDP in record time.

https://www.newsweek.com/china-article-censorship-1-billion-people-monthly-income-2000-yuan-poverty-1856031

I don’t. I watched a breakdown from a lawyer on youtube when it was first posted, but I have searched and not found that video. It was just a recommended. Though I can’t imagine there is no record of what is going on. Basically, when they are shutting down the servers, they are patching out the ability to host, which is lame, and they don’t even have the tenuous argument of it really being competition like WoW did.

I would buy it just for the free kid-shippil

they aren’t just turning the servers off, while there is part of the suit due to advertised promise vs what happened, the second point is they literally pushed an update that made running the software on your own, private, server, impossible. The point is that the game companies are making it so you are not able to do what you want with it. This is just one suit that is fighting for structures that protect you owning what you buy. It is multifaceted, from right to repair, to right to use software you purchase in any personal way you like. there is a broad, multi-industry, movement to make all products a “service”. Software was one of the first, and currently the largest, set of industries that do this. From single player video games needing to contact a company server just to start, to features of your car, house, and appliances requiring continuous payment schemes, where they can just deny access, even though you paid for them. It has gone on for along time, and now the mainstream population is being affected, and some are fighting back.

I am clearly on the side of you own what you pay for. They don’t owe you servers, updates, etc. They owe you being able to do those things, for your own purposes (ie not commercial), and not disabling everything when they no longer feel like putting resources into it.

Will they bill Texas for time employees spent on other projects, like they did with the DOD, and probably more than that?

Ahh the days when I would have two, maybe three, IBM clones on my desk, HAL 9000esque eye on the wall, and a tablet pc, surrounded by hundreds of books.

They will just have to stick to advertised timelines, and allow people to use that software, as they please, after they stop supporting it. I do not see how this is unfair.

I mean they started shutting it down 9 years ago, it isn’t new, so it isn’t really news now

Point was, this is about making it so they don’t have the option to do this anymore, with the legal system.

They did, but that was 9 years ago, so you might not remember. However it was not as popular a movement yet, so they didn’t get the same backlash as people are getting almost 10 years later, when everyone is sick of this. You are right, they can pull their own product if they want to, now. The goal is to make it so they can’t just do that if they want to, anymore.