What's this "again" business? Do you actually feel you're entitled to a $1 unlimited access pass to their entire library for 2 weeks just to play their biggest release? If not, do you think it's unethical or illegal or some other gripe?
I played Outer Worlds, Wasteland 3 and Halo: Infinite with that shit in the past years. I felt like I was literally stealing the games.
I feel like the joke would land better if all of the tools weren't neatly placed on the scaffold. Not exactly a scene of a crime here.
As a fan of the series, they definitely don't replace them. In fact, I would say that's true in literally every piece of art that has a new iteration. It's just the next thing, not THE thing.
If it was the devs, that seems more like they were trying to gather data to give to the higher ups to sway in their preferred direction. I'm sure the devs would like their work to be published on arguably the biggest gaming marketplace opposed to the execs getting a fat bag of cash from Epic for exclusivity.
They're clearly both video games and I'm pretty sure they both have demons. If that isn't compelling evidence then call me Helen Keller.
You wouldn't need an AI to predict this low effort response from you after getting exactly what you asked for. What'd you do, look at the date and instantly form an opinion? Do you scoff at textbooks because they were written years prior to your birth?
My entire life I heard 40 is middle aged because life expectancy is somewhere around 80. 40 is when the mid-life crisis starts happening as well.
Literally every game has a day one patch. They don't just throw their hands up, say "yay, we did it!", then stop working. They continue working on the game to push out more fixes because they can and society has accepted it.