This might answer some of your questions.
Music isn’t the same. It’s mass produced entertainment that we can browse at our fingertips with infinite options. Music devalued itself by being so accessible and throwaway.
Make a movie and just give it an ending. Fuck your wishy washy no commitment to closure, every hero survives, pump out as many shows and spin offs bullshit style of universe building.
Active player counts on launch is a metric that is undoubtedly used to judge the game and potentially is tied to dev bonuses. Like obsidian and fallout new Vegas.
I don’t see any corporation being above artificially inflating any of their numbers.
Usually I’m more polite but when someone posts an article like this while following it up with an X link, all subtlety goes out the window.
The irony is palpable.
Also mastodon in the X replacement, lots of really nice people there. This is Lemmy and full of shit posting.