Also how gaming is so massive now that numbers we consider pathetic and failures used to be what the blockbusters sold. The issue, as always, is mismanagement…like this shit new standard of half the budget being purely for marketing (or even worse splitting 80%+ of the budget across marketing and celebrity actors), or exclusively attempting to copy already saturated markets like BR/extraction/generic live service time sinks and pointless giant open worlds.

If you don’t mind trading the endless progression treadmill for actually fun content then Guild Wars 2 is where it’s at. Genuinely the chillest, most helpful community and the best open world content in the genre.

Millions of people all paying a sub with many buying dlc and mtx.