Yeah agreed, I was talking to a friend few years ago when Google first wiped out blogging by taking over the blog content and showing snippets instead of real links.

Obviously the end-game is for the companies to automate all the text, games, and software so you just go to their feed and pay them a monthly instead of individuals making making this content.

There's multiple reasons people play games. Some people are competitive and play a game thousands of hours to get better at it. So there's always a market for longer lasting games.

I don't see any reason why cheap, short games can't happily live alongside massive polished games in the market.

Was there ever a time when short, fun games to play with your friends were _not_ wildly successful?

> significantly lower effort than AAA games

I think you meant lower budget.

lol, except most friend slop game is actually good

You be tripping if you actually think AAA soulless that has filled with agenda is better