My Software Development 1 class in college told me that when developing software one of the first things to do is to recognize requirements.

Is that a lie? a lot of devs are talking as if they would just skip the requirement phase and disregard the law completely so they would find themselves between a rock and a hard place where they would either give away their IP or have to work to make a version of the game that is offline which would take ages to develop and of course a lot of money they already lost on a dead game.