Turns out you have corporate greed to thank for the existence of Shadow of Mordor's Nemesis system

Yeah, this is a really shitty, clickbait title.

"They were only getting paid for the first copy sold," Fryer explained. "They lost millions of dollars." Sure, multiplayer games were growing in popularity at the time, but as Fryer put it, "How do we create a single-player game that is so compelling, that people keep the disc in their library forever?"

Really, they finally found that one simple trick to maximize profits: Make a good product that people want to play longer. Go figure?

Clickbaiting on this one quote has suddenly led to media implicitly defending good old Gamestop and its contemporaries scamming little kids out of their videogame money by paying them next to nothing for games, reselling them at a huge markup and giving exactly nothing back to the people who made the games.

I guess the modern gaming press does see some parallels between themselves and brick and mortar game retailers, so maybe it's not all just disingenuous ragebait? Which is technically worse, I suppose.