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>>719230519
You're completely ignoring one thing:
Normies have the attention span of a goldfish and will mindlessly jump to a new popular trend in a second and drop whatever else they were doing, they have no long-term interest in ANYTHING, there is a reason the "IRL NPC" meme became a thing, because people noticed that these retards were barely sentient people
This is why the industry is currently dying, they appealed to normies who were interested in games for a while, but now they are bored of it and have moved onto something else, meaning all the money they brought in is gone too, and because the companies tried so hard to pander to them, it meant they told the lifetime gaming fans to fuck off.
Normies = moved on to something else (whatever the new fad on instagram is)
lifetime gaming fans = sick of the corporate bullshit and have moved to indies
This is Wii to Wii U all over again, Nintendo thought they had figured out the trick to infinite money by appealing to casuals with the Wii, and thought the Wii U would sell just as well, but it wasn't the "hot gimmick" like the Wii was, so the casual fans just ignored it and moved onto something else like they always do
You CAN NOT treat casual/normie players as a "forever-market", they are just trend-chasers who barely think about what they are doing