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Re:Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google acc... by mooman219 on Monday February 08, 2021 @03:42PM (#26069840)
I think this is a balancing act of risks, and I wanted to bring up what I believe to be a success story when it comes to handling suspensions: Microsoft.

One thing I believe Microsoft gets right is that suspensions are isolated to the service whose TOS was violated. I.e. violating the hotmail TOS doesn't suspend you from their other services. I think this makes the impact of a false positive less catastrophic, while still removing actual problematic users from the service. This may be an artifact of how teams work together at Microsoft.

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Re:Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google acc... by AceJohnny2 on Monday February 08, 2021 @03:48PM (#26069904)
Yup, I agree this is the better solution. The monolithic "one account rules everything" approach just increases the user's vulnerability.

It's largely what made Facebook's forcing usage of their account for Oculus users so ass-backwards.

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Re:Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google acc... by lwansbrough on Monday February 08, 2021 @04:46PM (#26070617)
> This may be an artifact of how teams work together at Microsoft.

It may be an artifact of Microsoft actually being regulated for monopolistic practices.

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Re:Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google acc... by nl on Monday February 08, 2021 @05:21PM (#26071041)
There's nothing at all in the old DOJ settlement that imposes anything like this.
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Re:Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google acc... by Schiendelman on Monday February 08, 2021 @05:27PM (#26071123)
That isn’t what they’re asserting.

I worked there for more than a decade. The settlement changed behavior - you thought about how to avoid future trust-like behavior.

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Re:Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google acc... by aparsons on Monday February 08, 2021 @05:59PM (#26071464)
If we did that at Microsoft when we were bringing Hotmail under the MS umbrella, DOJ would have ripped the company into 10 pieces
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