Shorter term: less foreign investments in the speculative industry casino of AI in their country

Longer term: A less brainrotted workforce

Free to play is always unsustainable without microtransactions unless the game is community hosted or open source. That doesn’t represent the overwhelming majority of F2P.

Honestly I think self-hosted OSS for those models may be the only way to get genuinely useful results in the long term for several different subjects, since I’d imagine investors and advertisers would be unwilling to throw capital at an unrestricted platform.

Project Zomboid Mentioned!