Just anecdotal evidence but a game developed where I worked around 2009 had a marketing budget twice as big as the production budget, and it was their "best game" so not just to push some crap.
It's not just long hours that wear out game developers 😅
Must say I have a hard time getting to know new music in this so rapidly changing music world.
I was used to brick and mortar stores and friends having wildly different tastes in music, nowadays I think it's complicated to just duck under the load of influence for commercial music (and other too I guess).
How am I even supposed to find new music I like, and that I can support, without enormous efforts?
Yepo, guess it's about using oil & coal is just worse.
Maybe soon we in the west will have "enough" of "stuff" (you can only eat that much every day right) and would transit to another less degrading system.
Good idea!
I listen mostly to 1980-90 pop rock and french music :-)