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[–] thatOneGuy@aussie.zone 5 points 1 week ago

It does feel like we are barrelling headfirst into another gaming industry collapse, doesn’t it?

Between the whole soulless, overpriced, MTX-riddled “AAAA” crap crowding out the top, tonnes of AI-slip flooding the bottom-end, and the antagonism towards physical media - it seems like it’ll only be a matter of time.

Especially given how there is a literal lifetime’s backlog of quality titles from half a dozen console generations - gamers could survive an ice-age. Developers and publishers can’t.