That's just the risk inherent in doing something illegal. Sometimes someone gets caught, and that person needs to be made an example of to scare others away. Blame your government for cultivating a culture of fearmongering and backwards thinking.

But let's be honest. If he actually does get the $32m fine then that just means he'll be paying a small sum every month until he hits the statute of limitation.

It's not like they take all his money forever.

It comes from the game designer(s) and lead developers, who sat down before launching the project to decide on things like how doors should work. At least I hope that's how they do it. I can't imagine anyone would launch any kind of project without first having a document stating exactly what the project should be about. Especially not when money is involved.

If the game design document says "All doors should be openable, provided the door is unlocked, the player has the key or the player is willing to take a reputation hit by breaking and entering", then your job as a game developer is to implement doors as specified in the game design document.

If the game design document says "Doors are graphic inserts for effect only", then your job as a game developer is to implement the doors as specified in the game design document.

If the game design document doesn't say how to handle doors before people start building the game, then the game design document is incomplete.

Incomplete game design documents, like incomplete architect blueprints, lead to stupid things like what you get by googling "architecture fails".

Weapons of Mass Media you mean.

And when do these ignorant dumbasses learn that being afraid of mass media just makes them look even more ignorant and backwards?