That doesn't really help things. It's not hard to lie about that,or find people willing to whore out their home address for a fraction of what you'll save from spreading out the addresses between properties.

That seems wildly unenforceable.

Work in any of the other cell phone stores across the continent?

See, this is what's making them lose. Israel's tactics allow Hamas to create a victimhood narrative and recruit thousands of people to their cause. In reality, Hamas is no more the friend of the Palestinian people than Israel is.

Every war these days depends on public opinion, both local and foreign. Without it, there are no recruits and there is no funding. If you can eliminate those, you've disposed of a lot of potential enemy combatants without bloodshed.

That strategy is what's losing Israel the fight in Gaza and the West Bank. For every enemy combatant they kill their opponents gain international sympathy as the downtrodden underdogs because every bomb builder is working alongside a guy with a camera and a tale to spin.

Racist-ranting 12-year-olds aren't the most profitable demographic, and FTP players are the product, not the actual customers.

By 'here' I mean in League of Legends, as described by the article.

That's kinda what's being done here. By limiting the amount that toxic players can say, the proportion of good messages is increased, increasing the 'normality' of the chat in general.

It's an understandable move. In a FTP multiplayer game, the userbase is half the product you're selling to the real paying customers.

Actually, yes, it does. Along with paying that money they also sign an agreement to abide by Riot's terms of service. If they violate those terms, Riot Games is fully justified in terminating their service entirely.

Because that creates more work for the client, which isn't actually something most clients want? If it's a political control thing it's completely redundant. There is never anything of intellectual value discussed in a LoL match.

Why, exactly should Riot Games be obliged to spend their resources supporting a toxic player that their other (profitable) players find distasteful? They have a business to run. Don't pretend that LoL matches are some kind of forum for enlightened and creative thought. It's a game. A game which is made worse for all involved when enraged ranting is allowed to fill the chat in place of useful tactical communication.

The only New Steam Version game I own is Company of Heroes... which repairs the multiplayer services that were lost due to server shutdowns. In other words, they're restoring the engine of my car, for free, that the original supporting company allowed to die.

Which games specifically become terrible after they change to "New Steam Version"?