But that’s it, you’ll buy their games regardless like many others do, so they can go about these awful practices because they aren’t at risk of losing sales. When I see a company do some pretty nasty stuff, I tend to take a break from them until they change, or simply stop buying their published games forever. I much…

3 million gamepass downloads isn’t the same as 3 million sales tho. Microsoft isn’t paying $60/download for a game on gamepass. I don’t know what their deal is (sounds like they don’t either - only MS and SE know), but it seems pretty hopeful to expect that. Even if MS was paying out $5/download (which would be…

SE’s projections seem to be based on when they were largely the only game in town with certain titles, which hasn’t been the case for 20+ years now. EA loves to do that shit too and investors now expect nothing but an upward climb marketshare and profit wise.

I’m glad you mentioned the Tomb Raider nonsense because my exact first thought when I read the headline was “what, did it only sell 4 million units and thus Square considered it a flop?”

I think the fact that most people learned everything they know about lawyers from American TV shows is a big part of the problem, too. Real lawyers and the practice of law (in Canada at least) is nothing like a TV show. We actually have ethics, for example! Also, much more boring.

Wow people got real mad at you for admitting a status quo exists and participating in it. /s Shame on you for wanting to work. Its amazing how petty people can get when they think they have a face to put their anger to. You should just dismiss those folks, theyre not actually making an effort to understand they just…

It’s a general principle of ‘work for hire’ that the company you work for owns all your output while you’re on work time.

I had a friend (no, I’m not gonna name them) who was a recording artist back in the 80s, and their spouse confided to me that although they used to sell upward of 100,000 copies of each album, they never made a dime off the albums. They basically lived off of concession sales (T-shirts and such).

“Back in the day” - hahahAHA! The entire business model of the music industry is exploitation. Their contracts trap musicians in an endless cycle of debt and the lowest possible share of profits, designed to prevent them having to pay a thing most of the time. So many musicians get out of the business not because they…

What day was that? Yesterday?

So, as a lawyer, this kind of stuff is absolutely everywhere. Any situation where there is even a slight power imbalance, you will often have a brutally lopsided contract. Hell, I’ve written some of them!!

Storytime!

Kind of sounds like the music industry back in the day, with exploitation and unethical practices just being the unquestioned way business was done. People giving up songwriting credit to a producer just to get a single recorded, labels pushing a marketing blitz for a weak record all on the artist’s dime so they'll…

And for not making it a pissing match with the specific company in a way that would distract from the larger issue, truly a class act.

Good on him for declining a bad deal and sharing what he feels like he can and should.

That’s the face of a man who has definitely tied Polly Pureheart to the railroad tracks at least once.

Isn’t that the face of Adam Sandler?

Waiting to see if his defense is, “Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, while she may have been twelve at the time, we seek to prove that she ached just like a woman, yes she did, she took just like a woman, yes she did, and she made love just like a woman, but she-actually, I’d like to withdraw my statement.”

I’ve already seen several stories on the web that detail his movements during this period, and as one writer put it, “You think at least that someone would have Googled his schedule before filing the lawsuit.”

Case dismissed due to new evidence from rando AV Club commenter.