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it's also legal precedent because they have to do it on their new games if they want to sell them in the EU, and the EU is a gigantic market that absolutely adores PC games, with the lower-income nations here being particularly loving of their PS4/PS5s.
it's easy customer satisfaction (which makes them want to keep buying new games to increase the size of their library instead of being apprehensive about games that will inevitably become unplayable) and thus, easy money. i suspect it'll take a little convincing for the shareholders before they agree to put in some money so that they can hire some codemonkeys to make an official server emulator the customer can use

some companies, like Activision, will try to bend the rules as much as possible. their old COD games are all still "playable" but it's a massive infection risk to your system, if you can even play them with how many cheaters remain to the point where lobbies become HvH