Exactly, the moment things cost real money in the game, the design of the game changes to increase likelihood of spending. Guild Wars 2 e.g. sells increased inventory space…and it fills your inventory with so many crap items that you’ll constantly be managing your inventory without the extra space.

5 minutes of internet fame.

The original developers worked on the previous expansion.

I pretty much stopped watching videos like that. “$Game story EXPLAINED” but actually it’s just a 30 minute rehash of the story without anything added to it or explained by the content “creator”.

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No thanks.

I wonder which license they are going to use. Is it gonna be just an open source one or full-on FOSS?

If they didn’t in all that time, it’s probably because they don’t want to keep their account.

That’s an assumption that leads to corporate bullshit like this.