If you cast your mind back two-and-a-half years ago to the long-forgotten year of 2022, you may recall the hullabaloo surrounding the Nintendo Switch port of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 (KOTOR 2) from developer Aspyr Media.
An announcement trailer for the port teased that an expansion created using the fan-made Restored Content Mod would release sometime after the game's release. However, this expansion never panned out because of a conflict with the current intellectual property rights holder, Disney.
This led self-proclaimed gamer Malachi Mickelonis and others to file a class-action lawsuit against Aspyr Media for "completely duping" the community by failing to deliver on the expansion.
The ensuing legal case was a flurry of desperate legal sparring, which included Mickelonis' legal representative, Ray Kim, using Lil Wayne lyrics to portray Aspyr as "goons" and his clients as "goblins," while Aspyr tried to argue that no one was even aware of the planned expansion because most people skip YouTube videos after the first five seconds. Aspyr also claimed that the expansion had "no economic value" because it was based on free content and would have been available for free.
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