Did you also know Microsoft (Blizzard’s parent company) also supplies AI used in the killing of innocent Palestinians?
The first pride was a zerg rush
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I don’t think their success depends on non-paying customers. Like yeah, you populate the servers but as long as there are a few hundred whales that can play against each other, they won’t care. It’s been apparent for a while now, look at how long the queue time is for top players, yet they still play it.
Oh and was it Respawn that had an interesting moment where they got mad at “freeloaders”? F2P games are very much at the mercy of monetization, aka paying customers (unless they’re also selling your data which they probably are).