>Western AAA across the board gives up on the west and only begrudging supports PC at all while using consoles as a test bed for "funpay minibuys" before they launch them in china
>Marketing replacing creatives and the beta cuck creatives left sitting in the corner playing mobage all day lead to a new shift to mobile style gaming on every hardware because they fell for the "100 million whale frontier" meme about china
>Everyone from Blizzard to EA revving up those bank tellers in preparation for the great eastern migration as these piggu gweilo bend over and present for their new core audience of chinese mobile gaming whales, they burnt the consumer and salted the earth on the way out
>But then china has internal political shake ups and a new ministry of culture arm springs up to start banning intrusive games pushing a none commie agenda
>All these companys relied on pushing the soylent gentry bullshit while riding the minibuys train this gen, content flags for tumblrinas everywhere
>Fortnite banned
>Dota 2 banned
>League banned
>Diablo banned
>Every single soycore IP banned.
>Every single microtransaction farm designed like a mobile game banned.
>Analysts now predicting a 'soft crash' for western AAA in Q2 2019
>They fucked themselves so bad with their greed, but if it wasn't for china it would have worked and they would have sold out the west entirely and made billions if not for pure bad luck.
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