Valve never intended for deadlock to have as much media coverage as it did. It happened anyways because a media outlet chose to ignore the informal NDA message that popped up when launching the game. The message was removed shortly after the incident.

Visa/MC make up most of their income. They were given the ultimatum of either banning a small group of games, or losing the ability to process payments almost entirely. Itch is not the problem here.

Oh, I was wondering why HL2 was being given away for free. Added it to my brother’s account before they changed it to being dirt cheap instead.

They publish their single player games to steam. Don’t know about any of their multiplayer ones though.

Even if that’s not the case, the drm is very easy to crack.

This will put pressure on studios that make E and T rated games with loot boxes (for example: Fifa). Now they have to decide between letting the game get bumped up to a M rating, losing initial sales of the game, or removing loot boxes and other gambling features.

What did hasbro do this time?

Same. I am surprised I’ve been able to use it for so long without any issues.

If you don’t rock and stone, you ain’t coming home.