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The Guilded Age is back, complete with Company Towns. Woo hoo.
Corporate socialism was always the goal.
Shadowrun/Cyberpunk (og) were right. Arcologies are on the way. Corporations are gonna have standing forces and fight each other. Most city people will be forced to move to an even more miserable existence, as DAs, legislators, executives, do everything they can to increase crime and lower property values so they can snatch it all up for their corporate masters. Eventually each mega city will be owned by a single corporation, with rivals, and 'nations' having to rent corporate embassies.
I, for one, welcome Mr Lee's Greater Hong Kong
I hope the CEO dragons reveal themselves soon.
Which will be more terrifying, BlackRock's or Tencent's?
Seattle calls the major businesses the empires. You can tell who runs what based on the architecture.
I still masochistically love Shadowrun.
Shadowrun 2E was so good, I have put up with a lot of shit editions since. Now I'm just hunting down a set of old books. I'll find local ppl who will do 2E.