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Surveillance due to paranoia due to all the shady shit they're doing.

Oh look, the live service FOMO tactic is leaking out. First they fail to protect the children, now they fail to protect themselves.

He was a developer with the financial incentive to not put in the work required by this initiative into his presumptive games.

In contrast to the other commenters, fuck FFXIV. I tried it twice and it's just.. annoying. Maybe because I was already annoyed with MMOs in general by then.
You should still try it yourself eventually, but it's really bleh for me.

To be honest, most f2p MMOs don't work as a f2player. You have to end up paying or it becomes stressful.

Anyway, i don't recommend them, but they felt the least annoying the longest. Star Trek Online and Neverwinter (grindy as hell or expensive pay2unlock), Guild Wars 2 (needs buying the first two expansions to unlock permanent mounts and character specializations) and if you're brave enough to go the private servers route, try searching for private, yet somewhat reputable servers of games you think might've been nice like Wildstar..

Well, it has joystick support... So there's that.

There doesn't seem to be anything native, but running it through steam can make use of its controller support for most keys.

Default though, the game is built for a keyboard experience.

It was the reverse for me. Went through a few Cataclysm versions (e, f, g), each with their own style, and Zomboid was mentioned by other players from time to time. Someone gave me an earlier GOG version to try and it's interesting to go through both similarities and differences.

If you do end up playing Cataclysm eventually, maybe try the different graphical tilesets available. Each style can make the game feel better or worse, subjectively. Also, I mostly used the keyboard while playing. Honestly, don't even remember if you can play with a mouse anyway...

I liked the turn-based style of Cataclysm DDA over this real-time one. Because it was less realistic.
I had more time to think and less time to "oh shit, I'm dead."

But I like the tutorial here because it tells you clearly you're going to die a lot, in silly yet believable ways.

It's a shame. Once upon a time, Ubisoft helped and sponsored many a young tentative developers and held classes for game development.
Whatever the reasons and end result, they inspired dreams back then.

Well, the pre-production is real. Remains to be seen whether production and post-production will be real as well.

Doubt they want to solve it. More like make it out of sight, out of mind.

Why are you taking the worth for granted though?

Because many "players" are refunding after a fap, which is logged and reviewed. Also, suspicious or new transactions are often flagged and reviewed. So a lot of such side content is being pushed in front of the banks and payment processors by horny clients who unwittingly expose their kinks.