It's not clear to me that it's impossible, or even especially difficult, to make something that survives a casual LLM paraphrase. Remember, all you need to encode is a single bit of info. There's a lot of space to redundantly encode that signal.

https://www.pangram.com/history/3e369754-75da-4922-8386-c0f3...

(Cue pivot to "oh, I only meant that it wasn't slop, I never pretended that I wrote a single word of it.")

It turns out that it's more profitable to buy up an existing brand and slowly cheap out on the product (basically capitalizing the reputation) than it is to continue to produce a quality product.

Also - is it just me, or is delivery weirdly off-beat sometimes? Like, isolating to just the kick drums in a standard 4-on-the-floor techno song, it has almost a disorienting amount of delay on some of the beats.

Once they started seeing useful (if niche) functionality as a cost center, there wasn't really a world in which these could usefully exist. Their big bet now seems to be that LLMs will lead them to profitability - but whether that's from increased data harvesting, cheaper integrations, or because it'll be useful enough to charge subscription fees, I couldn't tell you.

If Claude shortcuts that, then yeah, the problem might be solved, but you didn't skill up at all. Sometimes that's fine.

Weirdly, in my limited experience it seems that 'premium' / AAA games are more likely to require an account - I suspect it's because they want to be able to save unlocks/progress for those players. Perhaps they think it will incentivize those players to buy a copy of their own.