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Joker_X_II posted...

If another crash were to happen, it'll probably have more to do with too many AAA games pushing micro-transactions as the only way to play. There was a lot of financial backlash with EA's Star Wars: Battlefront 2. And Red Dead Redemption 2 is already seeing controversy with it's pay2win features in their deluxe editions of the game. Crap like that will crash the market.

The "Crash of '83" used up too much plastic and packaging for the hardware, which had always jacked up the retail price to begin with. Today, the impending crash in the near future would probably leave all the indy developers jobless, or living in their parents basement trying to peddle their a Peggle clone as another cheap mobile app.

Realistically, I don't see another crash happening. Certain major publishers may go under if some of their more questionable practices get taken too far (in particular, the "live service" model several publishers are pushing doesn't seem overly sustainable), but the industry's too big to see any sort of major collapse. If any one part of it does collapse, there are plenty of others waiting to fill whatever vacuum they leave behind.

Joker_X_II posted...

Vote with your wallet,....that's the best you can do.

That's not going to do much. Most people don't buy the genuine garbage; it's just people who get a key for a cent through some bundle somewhere, sell the 3-5 free trading cards for 10 cents each to turn a profit, and move on to the next game. The problem is, that's a large enough market to sustain this, at least as long as Steam sells enough other games for Steam Wallet money to have any value.
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