>>717542796 (OP)
>to start with video games to get the hardest critics out of the way first.
Bro, this ain't 2008 anymore. Anonymous isn't still lurking around to take down corporations.
"Gamers" today are clueless children from around the world. They fall in line and do what they're told. The government wants their ID? Sure. Let me click yes five times on my phone to agree to everything without even looking. Want my credit card number? Sure, have that and my SSN, whatever. Yes. Yes. I agree. Click-click-click. Who cares? Give me my games now.
It's unironically over. This is the cyberpunk hellscape. No, you don't get any cybernetic augs, just total corpo fiefdoms with everyone around you sleep walking and worshiping the ones who control them. Literally begging to be controlled as much as possible. Freedom is just a concept now, you can't fucking buy a jug of milk without it getting entered into a database of where you used your credit card and for what. You're "free" to consume and go into debt as much as you want, and it ends there.