>>38037317>Sonic never had a stranglehold over the platformer genre,You clearly weren't alive in the 90s
>and EA never had a stranglehold over ANY genre aside from Football, which they still have if I'm not mistakenEverything else aside, you're underestimating how fucking huge sports games are
>Pokemon dominates among monster collecting gamesWhich isn't a fucking genre, at best it's a subgenre. Pokemon's genre is JRPG, which there are plenty of games that can take Pokemon's throne
>It's also the biggest media franchise in the world. It has a very, very long way to fall before they hit anywhere close to bottom.And that's my fucking point. It's dangerous to think that way, thinking you're invincible leads to hubris, which leads to a steady downfall.
Just because "people are gonna buy it anyway" isn't an excuse, and will still damage your brand.
Even shit like CoD and Star Wars face blowback from time to time.
And frankly why are you defending GF's business practices? All this is dependent on the audiences willingness to put up with bullshit. Don't you want them to be a better company?
