They said players didn't want it, that things would never go back to how they were... Despite that, Activision (scared by BF6?) have not only rolled back "Fortnite-/enshitification" of their cosmetics, but they've gone ahead and removed Skill-Based Matchmaking AND disbanding lobbies too?!
Microsoft asked Xbox to proportionally make as much profit as Nintendo, and three times as much as PlayStation. And then they started cutting.
In April, the EU tried to regulate in-game monetisation. Six months later, the EU games industry is trying to warn just how badly it could go.
Two years after the last patch, twelve years after launch, Starbreeze just handed the keys to Payday 2 to a bunch of modders.
The latest viral hit on Steam looks like another quirky indie riff on a popular genre. It's not quite that simple.