I don't think they're that dumb, I can see them making their own launcher with PS+ sub to get free games or something like gamepass, but locking online play behind a paywall on PC sounds too braindead even for them, it'd be an even worse PR suicide attempt than Epic's exclusivity shenanigans.
Except for Nintendo, they're still just doing what they've been doing for the last 20 years, releasing consoles with outdated hardware and relying on gimmicks to sell them, at this point they're not even trying to compete anymore, Valve is a stronger competitor for Microsoft and Sony than Nintendo nowadays.
... No? Assassination has the goal to kill, a war has the goal of conquering or driving back someone else, deaths happen but they usually aren't the main goal. Large scale assassination would be genocide.
Not gonna lie, it's stuff like this that discourages me from reading currently releasing series, for all you know it could always end up as Berserk, with the end in sight but never closer. Because of this I mostly like reading mangas/comics that are already finished nowadays, I hate cliffhangers.
Well, if those publications weren't already shit they'll be very, very soon.