You just proved you're not
explodicle
Well, I guess as long as it's good for the economy.
Omg I've been destroyed
If they're already okay with IP in general, then it doesn't seem like much of a stretch. The whole thing is imaginary, arbitrary, and couldn't exist without the King's government.
Why do you want to steal from the king? :-P
Villain originally meant "villager". Look at the superheroes we've got - they overwhelmingly work with the police.
I say villain in this context to mean a criminal, an opponent of the status quo. Like the good guys from The Boys.
This is the birth of a supervillain who trains birds to attack people in police uniforms.
For better or worse, we're going the way of "the car guy". It used to be something everyone needed to know a little bit about, but now fades into the background with a handful of experts.
That doesn't make sense to me either, how so many people were heartbroken when all they had to do was simply load an auto save. I can't confirm because I just didn't give them money until it worked properly.
I haven't researched that game so I don't know its frequency or severity.
To be fair, we do keep voting for people who want inflation all the time on purpose.
Republicans: hey let's make saving Kafkaesque so it's harder to strike.
Democrats: this is actually good for "the economy" so we're cool with that.
A bunch of less lucky people did exactly that and then lost 100+ hours of progress.
It's an essential feature of the game. Literally. Unplayable.
Corkyskog's suggestion would make it actually brag-worthy. Just being rich in real life doesn't necessarily require effort. I'm way more impressed by a full endgame set in Diablo II.