Cheating is not really exclusive to the rich. People of all classes and backgrounds cheat.

Do they even need him anymore? With all the data center contracts Nvidia is too big to fail now. And if/when the bubble bursts, even Huang won’t save it.

I didn’t say that people can’t or shouldn’t write original stories. I want them too. But there is a reason why people like (well-written) series and worlds and want to return to them. I also want new stories in Mass Effect universe, if they are done well. Probably won’t happen but one can dream.

There is value in the world and characters that were created, it’s not just the name.

IP is still important. Original staff are not some unique geniuses, new people make great games all the time, under the right conditions and leadership. I doubt it will happen to BioWare at this point though.

Yes, only the state should have the ability to do that.

With ECH it can only see ip addresses. Which may be enough in many cases of course, but many sites use CDNs. Not all sites use it though.

Authoritarian enough government would just block connections with ECH and force websites to disable it of course.

Nobody runs it on their own hardware though (which costs tens of thousands of dollars). I’m willing to bet $100 that government institutions that were using it were just using cloud API (probably even Chinese one).