China is going to end up buying it. You'll see a big fanfare about a return to form, their first few games under Chicom ownership will likely be pretty decent, probably great. But over few years after that, if you're paying attention you'll notice that games will start having a few sympathetic Chinese side characters here and there, communists will never again be the villain of a story, etc. They'll keep the spotlight on having attractive women again, White male main characters in some of the bigger titles to bring older fans back in. But little seeds of Chicom propaganda will always be just below the surface.
It's brilliant, given that China is the main culprit underwriting woke programs in the West (yes, even way more than that country). Poison western studios with woke, drive them to bankruptcy, buy them cheap and the restore them with Chicom propaganda in the background.
China is going to end up buying it. You'll see a big fanfare about a return to form, their first few games under Chicom ownership will likely be pretty decent, probably great. But over few years after that, if you're paying attention you'll notice that games will start having a few sympathetic Chinese side characters here and there, communists will never again be the villain of a story, etc. They'll keep the spotlight on having attractive women again, White male main characters in some of the bigger titles to bring older fans back in. But little seeds of Chicom propaganda will always be just below the surface.
It's brilliant, given that China is the main culprit underwriting woke programs in the West (yes, even way more than that country). Poison western studios with woke, drive them to bankruptcy, buy them cheap and the restore them with Chicom propaganda in the background.
Say what you want about Chinese communism, at least its an ethos!
Seriously though, I'd take this trade in a heartbeat. At least communists have a future, unlike troonists.
And at the very least it'll put market pressure on the remaining US studios to cut the woke crap out and put out reasonable products once more.