Approximately 1/3 of the UK's population do not possess a Credit card, many for reasons that mean they cannot qualify for one. Now? Many of Steam's oft-lauded features are going to be denied to that 1/3 of society... Valve chose this.
Blizzard's lawsuit is a legal nuke, using anti-mafia law to potentially financially ruin Turtle WoW's developers. Why? Because they allege Turtle's a multi-million dollar criminal enterprise.
Turns out, Xbox didn't just cancel Perfect Dark. They locked the series in a vault, rather than letting someone else finish making the game.
The price of the PlayStation 5 is why Capcom have sold less than 500,000 copies of Monster Hunter Wilds since launch. At least, that's what their CEO says.
In the UK, unless you sign up for a credit card, you're getting a worse version of Steam than the rest of the world. And it still can't fully stop kids from getting to Adult Content.