It was my friend’s favorite game when it came out, though I never played it myself, and he was a huge FFVII fan, so it might’ve just been viewed through rose-tinted lenses. Still, if you’re big fan like he was, I’d say you might as well give it a shot if you have the opportunity. If I recall correctly, he said it was only 5-10 hours long, so not too much of a commitment.

…those are all corporations. Nationalization would make it a public service, rather than a corporate profit-driven service like how it is now.

You can bet that if libraries, for example, became privatized, we’d quickly see several different library companies pop up, each with their own paid book subscription service with exclusive partnerships with various popular authors, much like we have today with streaming platforms. Conversely, if we were to nationalize those streaming platforms, we’d likely see the service transformed to be more akin to our current library service.

It’s why the rightmost parties generally want to defund many public services and move them to the private sector - it transforms services that we spend money on to benefit the people into services that the people spend money on to benefit corporations.

Runescape made a lot of changes that people didn’t really like, but they mostly just kept pushing forward with everything, and it eventually became modern Runescape 3, which is the non-old-school Runescape. Then, because a lot of people were lamenting how different the game had become compared to the classic experience of the mid-2000’s, the developers opened up old school runescape, based on an old copy of the game from 2007 they happened to find.

Over the years new content was added to the old-school version that separates it from Runescape 3, making it a completely different experience, and that new content can only be added if enough of the playerbase agrees to it, making the changes generally positive in the eyes of the players. Old school really feels like a game from the mid 2000’s, where pay-to-win mechanics and the like are few and far between, while modern Runescape 3 feels like any other modern game where you either pay your way through or slog through content that seems tailor-made to make you just want to open your wallet to avoid it.

I loved the original Rayman game so much as a kid that I’d specifically look for that old rainbow logo on other games to figure out which ones I might like.

They did all this because they know that the vast majority of the playerbase will never hear about this, and many of those that do will either forget, or simply not care enough to boycott the game. We’re in an age of apathy across the board, with so much bad press that any given scandal just fades into the background noise.