I’m not sure if they can anymore. Civ 7 broke me on how it shoe-horned in systems to make money that ultimately broke what was a tried and tested formula.

I think it should be taken a bit further and just don’t buy anything from 2K if you can.

While this is a fair criticism of Android you don’t exactly have access to check and see if Apple is doing the same thing like you do with Android. You’re really just taking Apple at their word and they wont even let you cloud save to anything but their servers and can dig through your photos to find illegal content.