Whenever I see an extinct animal from the past few hundred years I get tremendously sad that we’ll never have the opportunity to listen to a David Attenborough documentary about them.

Sure, but that logic applies to every single closed sourced software/system ever.

Seems this is a non-issue.

ffs Joe, did you kill a fucking elephant?

Completely agree, and entitled gamers are some of the worst. Though I don’t think that should completely excuse our dev here from handling it poorly. They made their product worse and then was surprised when things got worse. Ultimately it’s their prerogative for which systems they choose to develop. Fortunately there are alternatives.

make free open source software

people repackage for their distros

get mad when you receive support requests for outdated packages

change license to prevent further repackages

Linux users continue using old version to avoid restrictive license change

Continue to receive support requests for old packages before license change

crash out

Am I doing this right?

Yes, let them fight.

I say unless they’re using the exact same assets, then who cares. People will play the better game.

Given this hypothetical, I would rather Valve know I was a pirate than Microsoft.