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What in the sweet fuck am I reading? If the large majority of people who buy and play a traditional fighter never fight anyone else online, they are not "high-skill players". There are zero genres where "high skill players" are the majority.

If the game dies and only a tiny devout core of discordfags remain, that's not a demographic shift that's reflective of the game's fundamental nature in any meaningful way, that's just a different part of the vidya ecosystem living off the decomposing remains of a dead game. Hardcore compfags were not anywhere close to the majority of purchasers, and that's all that matters.