Unfortunately? I dunno, I sort of like the idea of companies taking that approach to problems knocking themselves out of business. Maybe if it happens often enough we won't have to worry about this kind of thing as much.

Doesn't Apple generally disagree with that assertion these days?

I can think of six right off the top of my head in the last century, and I *know* I'm missing some.

Definitely agree that, if we're going to have WWII FPSes, the Eastern Front's hideously underrepresented except for Stalingrad. (Really, Russia is in general - a WWI eastern front game would be interesting, though going back to the original topic you wouldn't be seeing much in terms of women on the front lines then..)

Red Army on line one for you, sir.

A lot of them dropped the system access/crtc fees and replaced them with a slightly higher "compliance" charge.

Gotta love the good old "regulatory compliance fee."

Well, you see, there are times when water, and even ice, have been known to fall from the sky in large amounts.

I find the idea that FPS bots are somehow comparable to human players sort of hilarious.

That 600K has built up since the account was locked, which usually prevents people from withdrawing money from their PayPal accounts. Sixty thousand orders for a popular game in that timeframe - especially one that's popular on SA and the various chans, and is plugged by TF2's and Rock Paper Shotguns' websites - is entirely reasonable. Hell, Dwarf Fortress pulled together tens of thousands of dollars in a couple of days back in April through a mere tip jar and with vastly less exposure.

It's probably easier for people to say "I'm too lazy to look into the game in question about which I know little or nothing, so I'll just decide he's doing something illegal," though.

What about censorship of political, religious, and controversial viewpoints? This is about Freedom of expression and Freedom of communication more than it is about any single issue.

I was under the impression that, constitutionally and legally speaking, Australia recognizes neither as a right.

I find it hard to imagine that they're now suffering anything close to the way in which being locked in a 3*3*2 meter cage for half the day is suffering.

The fact that one of the two parties, y'know, did something to earn their suffering might factor into things a bit here.

Which one is it (or is it both somehow)?

If news coverage of it's saying one thing - that the player's gunning down civilians - and the company producing the game is saying another - that it's effectively an interactive cutscene whose point is to say that These Guys Are Bad - I'm inclined to give Activision the benefit of the doubt, even if they're still deep in the failure mines with other aspects of the game.

While the idea of those Windows-induced problems traveling back through time to, say, influence King Leopold II's management style or spawn any of the other eleven gazillion and three problems that Africa has had over the twentieth century is, honestly, kind of awesome in a horrible way, I'm skeptical that that's how it actually happened.