When corps realized that retarded goblins would whale for mobile games.

That was the death knell for gaming - the mobile market blowing up showedthe suits the untapped wallets of millions of retards with no gaming experience and no standards. Then came the push for endless expansion of the audience until everhthing is the same fucking sludge.

Freemium is the fucking devil. If it is in a game, the game is poisoned, rotted from the development level. They have to deliberately make the game worse when implementing those systems.