Nobody would mind at this stage if we had a shred of trust left. We’re so deep in enshitification these days that every change is expected to come with deeply negative consequences.

If the new Xbox came with a big joystick I’d expect to have to shove it up my ass for age verification. Whatever they’ll cook up it’ll somehow fuck us and we’ll sure as hell pay a subscription for it.

This is thanks to a rule in US copyright law which allows creators (or their heirs) to reclaim a copyrighted work after a period of 35 years. Since Garriott sold the Ultima rights to EA in 1992, this means he can reclaim those rights in 2027.

It’s horrible. We already had that stuff figured out. Wiki pages and forums to make information accessible even after 20 minutes have passed. Fuck that development and everyone that was/is pushing for that.