Taking falling game company stock prices as proof that the AAA market is collapsing is complete nonsense. For one, stock markets depend on a ton of factors, how a company is actually doing doesn't have that much of an influence. On top of that, the NASDAQ chart looks like the charts of the individual companies you have shown, the falling stock market prices have nothing to do with the game companies, EVERYTHING is falling.<br>And then: You probably play the wrong games. I have hardly seen any of these schemes in the games i played this year. Yes, some of the big companies become more and more abusive (EA, Bethesda, Ubisoft), luckily their games don't really appeal to me anyway, and the games that would, i ignored because of their schemes (Shadows of War being the most prominent example). There are plenty other games out there without such behaviour, even if you exclude indie games. Take Nintendo for example, their games always come complete, DLC is developed after the game is released. For example in Smash: On release day of the game, they announced Joker from P5 as the first upcoming DLC character. But they also said they hadn't even started development yet (hence, the reveal trailer features no gameplay).