Steve Kaplan, attorney at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, practices in the areas of venture capital and private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and other commercial transactions.

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The company's failure could also have cast doubt on the financial conditions of some of Bear Stearns' many counterparties or of companies with similar businesses and funding practices, impairing the ability of those firms to meet their funding needs or to carry out normal transactions.

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Fans constantly fault the company for unfriendly practices including intrusive DRM (the cause of the SimCity debacle) and questionable tactics with regards to micro transactions and DLC, which are sometimes felt as a type of gouging.

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