>>720685772
It may never hurt them
There are a LOT of really shitty companies that flushed their good will down the toilet with retarded business decisions that are still doing just fine, now.

Look at EA. As long as their actual customers are share holders and not their players, then it doesn't matter what retarded fucking measure they use to screw over their fanbase. EA has been fucking people over with the worst kind of gambling and gacha mechanics in retardedly worse and worse games and they're doing better than they were doing during COVID. Their last FIFA game was so functionally unplayable that they lost the FIFA license and had mass returns, did it matter? Of fucking course not. Whales buying virtual players will play literally anything.

Nintendo could go down the path of charging $200 a game and people will still pay it because it has Mario and Pikachu on it, even if they were forcing you to pay for packs of pokemon and toads to use in the game. And as long as green line goes up, who is to say they aren't right for doing so? In the stock market, might makes right, and happiness is a gentlemen's agreement.