I don't like those predatory businesses. I think many games are like that nowadays. But not all businesses are like that. I think a game like Factorio is honest and respectable. It doesn't have any subscription models, you buy it once and own it forever. Technologically, AFAIK, it's using old fashioned technology (Allegro was started in 1990). The innovation is in the gameplay part.

I bet there are some local thugs that control who exactly gets to sell umbrellas to tourists outside the Collosseum on rainy days. You can quickly find out buy getting some cheap umbrellas to resell and trying to get some business there the next time it rains.