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99% of gamers knew this years ago.
It's always been a race to gobble up the handful of whales that keep the mobile game industry alive. Now add hundreds more desktop and console games to that list. Sure, there are lots of people that will happily spend thousands of dollars on any shitty game, but once you've got the entire industry spending billions fighting over those players, the well runs dry eventually.
Underrated comment honestly. That's nailed on the head, greed drove billions in investments to compete for whales and now it looks like a wasteland....compounded by the fact that the whales were always unsustainable users in the first place. Sometimes rich people were whales but the majority of the time they were users who didn't have a pot to piss in, in the first place.