I'm bringing this up because of the latest news that Bungie is stopping live support of Destiny 2 after the next update, probably to desperately focus on Marathon. But you combine it with:
• Ubisoft circling the drain
• A game getting review bombed to hell as a link to Anita was found
• Shift Up has abandoned Sony publication just as Sony desperately try to rename woke game Fairgame$ to salvage ANY return
• Asian studios cutting ties to western studios in general
It does feel like we are reaching the endgame now where it will be 'purge the left or die' at a lot of these studios, it's just a matter of is there anything left to save in some of them?
I do think what will remain will mostly be the series games--e.g. the FIFA, Madden, NBA, Forzas, etc., a few live service games that are actually popular in their time, and an every few years live service they try to push.
Although I do think there will still be a push to release propaganda flops, because the money will keep being put there in illicit ways. Everything else will mostly be Asia as far as big devs go.
Most investors are index plebs nowadays, and the feds will never let Line Go Down. Why not soak 401(k)s for some nepobaby jobs?
Most investors aren't good enough to be anything but index plebs. Why would you set your money on fire if you can't even get some lulz out of by burning down a hedge fund ala GameStop? Just throw it all in a general market fund and insulate it against inflation. Not like keeping your money in a savings account will do you any good? Yeah, get that 3.5% interest while real inflation flirts with double digits. Real smart money right there.
I was talking more about the moral hazard of letting corpos get free retirement money every month from gormless normies who don't care that they're investing in absolute dogshit as long as Index Go Up.
With everyone in index funds, everyone is trying to game the index. You have the orange shabbos goy trying to pump the stock market up every week, and now Elon trying to sell his bag to retail investors with the SpaceX IPO.
I think most people just don't want their money to decay every year. Are you actively advocating that people let their money rot?
That too. I was thinking some of that in regards to the national debt just didn't type it up. A ton of that national debt is just bonds in 401ks.