They did, but that was 9 years ago, so you might not remember. However it was not as popular a movement yet, so they didn’t get the same backlash as people are getting almost 10 years later, when everyone is sick of this. You are right, they can pull their own product if they want to, now. The goal is to make it so they can’t just do that if they want to, anymore.
Everything needed to run the game online exists player side. There are many games where people run their own servers because of this, even in WoW. They are literally taking things to disable this ability from what they purchased.
Yeah, if they want to claim digital piracy is theft, then them doing this stuff is just as they described
If by stunt you mean, “discusses how the character has been set-up as the natural replacement with games media interviewer”… then sure, stunt.
I mean they started shutting it down 9 years ago, it isn’t new, so it isn’t really news now
Point was, this is about making it so they don’t have the option to do this anymore, with the legal system.