I can say with some certainty, characters weren’t exactly getting “wiped”. It was people not taking into account the server instability who were playing for hours without using the "Save and Exit" button to record their progress that were seeing those massive rollbacks. As long as you use that after major breakpoints,…

I think, had they actually thrown to second to put out Lindor, Francona could have probably argued for obstruction. The defender threw the ball, then ran into (and knocked down) Lindor, while in the base path.

It’s probably done based on a percentage of the money accrued, so they don’t make much on bad games, but make a killing on high sellers.

The issue is, the good relationship with Kaizen generally involved destroying the engine. The players that got the “secret” ending were nice to Kaizen, but actually disobeyed the order to destroy the engine - which, according to the developers, should have culminated in the ship never returning to Earth.