Has "Vote with your Wallet" Ever Truly Worked?

[Norfleet]

I'm willing to introduce the AAAA category for games that have a budget of $1b.

There is no such game, though. The only games that have even managed to break 1B in costs are ongoing live-services that incur continuous operating costs. The only thing in gaming claiming a dev cost of 1B+ is GTA6, which does not actually exist, so is not a real game.

[Vergil]

I suppose in a way it "works" as in killing the studio but has there ever been an example of a studio starting down the wrong path and after fan backlash they do a 180 instead of doubling down or just dying outright?

Works for presidential elections, though. See Clinton's republican-democratic flip.

I think it works for studios as well as for politics, but the process is very inertial. The larger the company, the more powerful is managerial bureaucracy and the larger the corporate tolerance for failure. WoW rots for 10-15 years already.

In my ideal world the person gathering the data would be a closeted homosexual chud

Are you looking for job?

Please don't make this a politisperging thread