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Annual reports are full of interesting facts companies aren't likely to advertise.
A couple months ago I poked through the Risk Factors in the annual reports of Electronic Arts, Take-Two, and Activision Blizzard and learned all kinds of neat stuff, like how piracy has no significant impact on the business, how companies are almost certainly using open-source software that technically requires their games to be given away for free, and how Activision Blizzard disagrees with its own leadership when it comes to climate change, nationalism, and the woke menace.
source https://www.gamesindustry.biz/now-youre-playing-with-privilege-this-week-in-business
