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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 25 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Ya know what? Maybe I should just find some reason to nitpick EA's business practices. Then send them a bill for $10,000.

Maybe they'll just pay to not have to even think about it.

Now if only I could find SOMETHING wrong with EA's business practices.....anything.....

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 24 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

A guy did this to Google for years until he was caught.

He just sent fraudulent invoices to Google’s billing department for small amounts and they just paid them on sight without thinking about it.

https://www.npr.org/2019/03/25/706715377/man-pleads-guilty-to-phishing-scheme-that-fleeced-facebook-google-of-100-million

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

That reminds me of the premise of the movie office space. But somehow it's funnier that it's less sneaky, more overt.

[–] Jailbrick3d@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

that guy had to have had some kind of addiction he was constantly paying for... every opportunity to quit while he was ahead and he just kept going until he got caught

[–] webkitten@piefed.social 2 points 6 hours ago

Shocked considering how LGBTQ friendly The Sims is.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 6 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

A source spoken to by Kommersant suggests that the lawsuits are merely the beginning of a crackdown on foreign-made online games within Russia, a move which would likely redound at least somewhat to the benefit of homegrown games.

Not much. Russian gamers are mostly technically literate and either pirate their games, Russian or not, or use the roundabout ways to pay for their games abroad. Many also associate Russian games with slop, although that's not universally true.