DebatableRaccoon

This is the only correct response. There's no way to be ready for this episode.

Dude. It's been 23 years and still too soon.

Considering the developers won't be prospering from this in any way, I'll be making sure to be aboard the ship as soon as I can.

Not to mention nickel-and-diming the customer.

It's not as simple as about backbone. I agree that ethics are a good reason to stop doing business with an individual but if a company like Valve were to pull out of every country based on ethical matters, they'd need to found their own country.

I don't disagree.

That's how to cease operating in a country.

Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure you're right. I remember seeing an interview some years ago where a collection of Trump supporters were being asked some questions, including ones in the vein of 'if he did x' and one of them was 'If Trump shot a man in the street and killed him, would you still support him?' and the answer was 'That depends, did he deserve it?'. That one opened my eyes to the sort of people we're dealing with when it comes to Trump supporters. The fact that he got in again since that only killed more of the little bit of faith I had in humanity.

I'm all for enabling choice but I can't help but wonder how much this is a move for some easy PR compared to how big the prospective market is for such a game... as well as how I stay away from said buyers.

I'm referring to how there's been a trend of "cost of X just increased 15%". Granted I can't, and won't presume to, speak for every individual case but we have access to know enough that these increases often aren't tied to necessity within a company. When profits are increasing year-over-year but the price still goes up, that's a decision made by a greedy someone(s) somewhere up in the pecking order.

It won't be the end. The bubble will burst, likely violently after being pushed far too far and for far too long, and when it does, the manufacturers will need clientele again. We'll likely see yet another greed-fuelled standardised increase in base prices due components but it won't be the end of the customisable desktop. At the very least, I absolutely won't be buying a tablet. No corpo can force me to do that and I know a lot of people in the space will agree.

Welcome to people. Instead of fixing the homelessness, governments would prefer to make the situation worse while doing their best to ignore it.