This is the part that I can’t help but laugh at every time. Russia was slowly gaining a better global image, Russia already had crimea, all Russia had to do was NOTHING, but no. What a bunch of absolute idiots.
Apple Arcade seems to have escaped this cycle and has games that feel like early mobile games where developers made their games passion projects; games are focused on fun without any in app purchases, games get constant content updates, remasters of some of the best mobile games but without ads or in app purchases.
I don’t know if it’s a law here too in Canada, but Amazon.ca works the same. What sellers do to get around this just make a new listing for products at inflated rates so they can then discount them for “sales”, while simultaneously setting the regular listing to unavailable until the “sale” is over.
This only works if you abolish capitalism as well so people don’t need to revenue of IP.