I wouldn't be surprised if this WAS the plan and these western studios were dumb enough to fall for the instant money of ESG, lose reputation and sales for inferior products, lose stock value to only be taken over by Chinese companies.
Only thing is, would that make a difference? The reputational damage is done and people are less caring of these franchises. This might have been more a phyricc victory for the Chinese as THEIR economy isn't doing so hot and this could end up a Bethesda situation as after Microsoft bought them, what have they really done?
I wouldn't be surprised if this WAS the plan and these western studios were dumb enough to fall for the instant money of ESG, lose reputation and sales for inferior products, lose stock value to only be taken over by Chinese companies.
Only thing is, would that make a difference? The reputational damage is done and people are less caring of these franchises. This might have been more a phyricc victory for the Chinese as THEIR economy isn't doing so hot and this could end up a Bethesda situation as after Microsoft bought them, what have they really done?
Never underestimate how easy it is to manipulate the normie into buying corpo-slop.