> 2008 crash brings in finance bros instead of creatives because vidya is the only thing not cratering > iraq war and afganistan are... complicated... > corpo bros are risk adverse, and spend the next 8 years rendering your franchizes into sequel slop that pleases normies. here be your cod and fifa. > 2016 gamergate convinces many corpos to remove real world politics from their games. > corpos are not into internet autisim. and do not realize they mean """politics""" ie: black people and women existing > corpos avoid actual politics > corpos realize "gamers" actually have terrible taste and will just buy the same slop as the normie > 2018 lootbox craze. corpos realize they can sell you skins and gambling. > corpos do what corpos do > 2020 covid games are hot, more normies buy in > 2022 yet another outcry by "gamers" about "wokeness" that leads to harassment of staff. > games all sell gangbusters anyways. > everyone realizes this is a pattern by now > bg3 the wokest game ever to exist blows the entire aaa market out of the water by being actually woke, instead of preformatively woke. > 2024 "how did we get here bros"
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