ah, videogames. the shitted ass industry of our times.
I can't even envision a way to unfuck things at this point. Unless like 75% of the field somehow aggressively unionizes (across the planet! love a good joke) and pushes the economic blowback higher up the chain but then what. Suddenly consoles are a thousand dollars with another hundred getting you a revocable game license taped to the inside of an empty box, organized laborers get another lease at maybe one full dev cycle before the consumers see the price tag, and aughts-level piracy is immediately revived within days. Resulting in publicly traded publishers dropping like flies I guess? All the while AI is still THERE sucking all the air out of the room and moving money around between graphics card manufacturers and surveillance companies like an ouroboros. Or whatever the fuck it is they do, I don't even know.
Hopefully the eventual rise and fall of whichever police state is incentivizing this global hysteria will be worth it though. Up to a hundred thousand jobless workers is a devastating yet worthwhile cost for giving the most propagandized people in history a tool that eloquently confirms their biases in crisp 4k filmic detail while selling their behavior data to palantir or some shit equivalent
















