The fact that people think anything in game dev behavior is new shows how many underage LARPers there are.
>Nintendo forced strict censorship rules, despite being the only game in town
>developers have always pushed graphics above all, and you didn't live in the bit wars with blast processing and the virtua processor and shit
>game developers have always shipped buggy, unfinished games like pretty much everything for the VCS, Ultima 9, and Daggerfall (which had a fucking literal virus in early discs)
>they tried to eliminate physical gaming early with picrel, which is functionally game pass for how they rotated games
>they were PROUD of bloat in games. They advertised how many megs Genesis and NeoGeo carts were. Phantasmagoria being 7 CDs was revolutionary, not gay.
>true moviegames came with CD, but there were a lot of cinematic-heavy games in the point and click adventure era
>expansion packs were always welcomed, not bitched about because "muh cut content DLC whatzit" bullshit
>they shipped malware without realizing it (daggerfall above, and others)
>they installed rootkits on your PC (StarForce and later versions of SecuROM)
This is all old shit, but /v/ doesn't play video games, so they don't know about it.
It's not an excuse for this type of behavior, but it's not new.