Look at the bright side, you could've been a case that an influencer talks about while doing makeup with slangs making it sound like you two were besties.
Neither did Hello games when they continued to work on NMS, it didn't have any monetization beyond buying the game, but they still did it in the end and it paid off.
They said their speech, and got the consequence of being jailed for it, exactly what the comment I responded to said, my point is that freedom of speech doesn't actually exist.
The game had an open beta and only 2 thousand people played it, no one cared.
It was originally advertised as f2p, at some point they changed their minds and decided to charge for it, clearly it didn't go well since people already associated it with free.
This is the truth people don't want to admit, but Final Fantasy XIV being successful carried square enix through their darkest days when everything wasn't making a profit. Cygames using all the money they got from the granblue gacha to finance an action rpg and a fighting game, etc.
They serve as a safety net, we lost mimimi last year, I don't think anyone would say they made bad games, but they just didn't sell enough so they closed.
Genshin-likes are being very popular in the east, this year we got Wuthering Waves (which is actually much better), and 2-3 years ago we got Tower of Fantasy (which was terrible), now the same studio from ToF announced Neverness to Everness which is the same concept of an open world anime action rpg but in an urban setting, suspiciously years after Project Mugen had been announced which is has the exact same premise.
Doesn't change the fact that the few fans it had can't play it ever again, game is still killed because it had no support for community servers, just matchmaking.
I for sure would prefer to host my own The Crew and not getting a refund.
Anthem kept the servers going longer, it got some updates and EA even promised an entire rework akin to No Man's Sky, but EA being EA they never delivered it and just cancelled everything lol.
I'm pretty sure most people are just mad that this is basically "rules for thee but not for me", why should a company be free to pirate but I can't? Case in point is the internet archive losing their case against a publisher. That's the crux of the issue.
I would argue Shantae is definitely horny, the games have some innuendo jokes specially the DSi one.
We don't need parodies because they do it better themselves.