Any time a gaming company does something stupid, leave it to gamers to out-stupid the company and prove that they deserved to get shit on in the first place
Gamers and death/rape threats. Is there a more iconic combo?
But yeah. Most likely this is just stupid kids. But need to take everything seriously because you never know when it is actually going to be a real threat.
It’s interesting to think about the position that Caesar’s is in, with regard to trust. How do you determine that you can trust the hackers enough to pay them, that they won’t release the data anyway? Like… do the hackers have prior exploits they can point to saying “Hey, we took company X’s data, they paid up, and we didn’t release their info, so you can trust us?”
I mean, there’s also the thought that if they don’t pay up, it will definitely be released, so it comes down to something of a risk analysis.
Alternative title: Unity about to get sued into settlement or bankruptcy due to legal fees by Nintendo, Sony, and a bunch of others over unilaterally announced installation fee.
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