In fairness, fulfilling the contract is the only legal obligation anyway. Microsoft certainly isn’t donating time or effort to anyone. Why should employees donate time or effort to them?

Wish there were a way for international supporters to sign onto this too

It blows my mind that anyone at EA seemed to think that a famously homophobic and misogynistic regime would allow them to continue developing games that featured LGBT characters

Did anyone honestly believe the Saudis would allow any game with LGBT characters to continue? If that was you, I want to introduce you to my good friend the Nigerian prince

First being sold to EA enshittification which then sold itself to Saudi homophobic misogynistic bigots. What could’ve possibly gone wrong?

LOL! You’re welcome :D

Aw nuts! You spoiled their clickbait

Here’s hoping more devs find a way to avoid big publishers and get back to producing good games

Not since grade school

Granted. :)

But a 100% price increase without notice or justification will burn good will. It isn’t about the ten bucks. It’s about the lack of communication. What negative surprises are they hiding to spring on us next year?

It would’ve been nice to have advance notice of the price increase

It doesnt “threaten” the market. It eliminates it. Of course, that’s been a goal of all publishers across all media for decades. Sony is just the first games publisher to take the lesson from textbook publishers and eliminate physical media that a buyer actually owns.