… and aren’t necessarily great for everyone. They cause a substantial number of people to feel nauseous.

If these achieve a similar effect without the downsides, then that’s both new and interesting.

This is unrealistic. The process from start to a fully finished character is huge, and if you didn’t start until the game shipped then you’d be bitching that there was too big a gap with no interesting updates after the game came out.

Also a lot of the people working on this content won’t be the same people working on the last remaining bugs. As you get closer to release, you have a smaller and smaller group of people fixing things otherwise it causes too much churn and you start introducing more bugs.

That’s a pretty dumb comparison. Are you suggesting that people who create stuff used to train AI are obligated to provide that education for free? People who create books/educational aids for teachers to use in classrooms still demand to be paid for that. Teachers are paid for delivering that education. The kids don’t pay the teachers, as a society we tax people because education benefits us all, but the teachers are still paid (not enough!)

I’ve always thought that it ought to be analogous to the real world. There are places in the real world where you can be anonymous, and the internet needs that.

But there are also public places on the internet. In the same way that there are laws to stop you walking into your local town square and starting to yell racist shit, there ought to be something that stops you doing that in the “town square” of the internet - i.e. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube etc. Or at least, there should be a consequence to that.

I think that figuring out some kind of threshold beyond which a site needs to require an official, publicly visible ID could be of benefit, but agree that people will always need the opportunity for online privacy.