Honestly, all this consolidation and corporatization of games has done is made me check out of gaming. Of the little gaming I still do, I basically only play indie games and paradox titles at this point. As things keep getting worse and worse people are going to start checking out of society as both consumers and workers more and more. Like yes, it will be impossible to fully remove yourself, but as it becomes more obnoxious and expensive for a less and less appealing product people will just forgo involving themselves. I guess at that point they are just going to start enacting reverse consumption laws that mandate a certain volume of purchases by people and you will be expected to find a job to meet that expectation, a kind of perverted reverse MMT.