Russia fines EA, others so little it feels like a weird joke
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/after-fining-google-more-money-than-exists-on-earth-russia-demands-so-little-from-ea-and-others-it-feels-like-a-weird-joke/Open linkView original on lemmy.world
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.....
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
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
That reminds me of the premise of the movie office space. But somehow it's funnier that it's less sneaky, more overt.
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.
The only thing I associate Russia with when it comes to games is theft, cheat development, cheating, racism, and tarkov.
Also mandatory fuck BSG.
Shocked considering how LGBTQ friendly The Sims is.