And make it so you lose friends and family over the course of the 4+ hour game. Also make a thimble to fight over, that would be dope.

I'm sure a game that's so on the nose with its message could never become a commercialised marketing gimmick that perversely promotes existing monopolies. Capitalists wouldn't dare.

You wildly underestimate most corporate IT security's obsession with pushing updates to products like this as soon as they release. They also often have the power to make such nonsense the law of the land, regardless of what best practices dictate. Maybe this incident will shed some light on how bad of an idea auto updates are and get C-levels to do something about it, but even if they do, it'll only last until the next time someone gets compromised by a flaw that was fixed in a dot-release

Monopolies aren't absolute, ever, but having nearly 25% market share is a problem, and is a sign of an oligopoly. Crowdstrike has outsized power and has posted article after article boasting of its dominant market position for many years running.

I think monopoly-like conditions have become so normalised that people don't even recognise them for what they are.

Well now that I've invented the concept for the first time, we should invent laws about it. We'll get in early, develop a monopoly on monopoly legislation and steer it so it benefits us.

Wow, monopolies rule!