I don't think they researched this decision.
Who?
The new owners? They're interested in the high rankings on the playstore. The vast majority of people don't care about bloat/privacy and install whatever is at the top of search results.
The original developers? I'm sure it worked out for them.
It's page one, so I don't think this is a selected subset.
This is just the people playing right now, and only people playing on steam. This doesn't show all of the people who bought the game or are playing on console.
Obviously none of the gaming boycotts have worked, and we're both putting way too much thought into one image.
For anyone wondering: First number is base, second is related, third is other. I have no clue what those terms mean.
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/824506840
Probably when it was beaten in both features and cost by the alternatives.
In other news, snow blindness is on the rise in suburbia.
Every major country that has ever gone down the communist road has ended up a dictatorship.
Up until not too long ago, every democracy relied on slavery, disenfranchised large parts of the population, and eventually ended up a dictatorship. If you asked someone in like 1810 whether democracy could work, it'd be completely understandable if they pointed out all the horrible aspects of Greek and Roman "democracy", American planations, colonialism and the Reign of Terror, and if they assumed all of these to be inherent to democracy.
"Sure, the king isn't perfect, but he's surely better than Robespierre (who was inevitably succeded by Napoleon). And besides, great thinkers like Plato argued for a philosopher king – and that guy lived in a democracy, who would know better about all of it's evils?"
Yes, communism has failed in many respects so far.* The reasons for that are complex, include active sabotage by anti-communist states, but anyone who doesn't genuinely and critically reflect it's failures is (probably) doomed to repeat those mistakes.
Assuming those are inherent and inevitable based on less than a hundred years of history is imho short sighted.
*Some very early societies were probably kinda close to what we conceptualise as communism™ today, but applying the term is anachronistic.
Tipping has been prevalent in many Europeam countries for decades, though the amount is usually less than in the US.
It would solve so many problems over there, honestly.
Which ones?
Radical turnaround in transport policy
[Image] Hinterher develops innovative bicycle trailer based on the traffic light government's transport policy
"We fed ChatGPT with the transport policy concepts of the governing parties and this is what we came up with," says Peter Hornung, founder and CEO of the Munich-based trailer manufacturer Hinterher. What may seem strange at first glance is the result of artificial intelligence and intensive analysis of previous transport policies.
The company normally manufactures rectangular trailers with two wheels, "but we are open to new technologies," says Hornung. Although the new trailer cannot drive straight ahead, it can turn in circles at high speeds. The company is convinced that the new model will be a success: the existential consequences of the climate crisis are well known to the governing parties FDP [liberals], SPD [social democrats] and Greens. It must therefore be assumed that this urgency is also reflected in their policies. So our latest model can only be a direct hit".
Company spokesperson and media expert Johannes Schubert therefore has no technical objections to the functionality of the bike trailer. "The evidence-based and scientific foundations on which transport policy has been based for decades are forcing us as a manufacturer to innovate." Hinterher is therefore setting itself apart from tried-and-tested straight-ahead technologies with a view to the future.
The comprehensive analysis also included the transport policies of the last transport ministers from the CSU [conservatives], Wissmann, Ramsauer, Dobrindt and Scheuer. From this, the AI calculated a trailer travelling in reverse. "I'd rather drive in circles," says CEO Peter Hornung, who, together with his company, is hopefully looking forward to the decisive steps taken by those in power to save the climate.
Also available in other colours!
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As a company from the transport industry, we are concerned that the current German government is continuing to prevent and delay urgent measures to limit global warming in the transport sector. This article is our satirical attempt to channel our frustration about this into creative channels. By chance, shortly after publishing our Hinterher H-Ampel ["H-traffic light", referring to the colors of the government coalition] trailer, we found the picture with Minister Wissing in the social media, which was published by the BMDV and, as we think, fits like a glove. We would like to expressly mention here that the credits for this picture lie with the BMDV, not with us - and we would like to thank the ministry for this contribution.
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Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) Contents in [square brackets] added by me.
If you're a large online news outlet doing this repeatedly: Probably sue you.