DBWI AHC: Notoriously Corrupt AAA Gaming Industry

With a PoD after the gaming crash of 1983, create a situation where generally clean and well-respected AAA video gaming industry is plagued with corruption. Personally one way this can happen is if the issues that caused the gaming crash were unresolved for some reason. Other than that I don't know how we could have a highly corrupt video game industry due to how regulated things are.

OOC: We live in a world where the most controversial and blatantly corrupt practices of AAA companies are mcuh less frequent, if outright nonexistant and the gaming community is less rocked by scandals and also made up of less "Video #90000 why AAA companies are the worst" sort of videos or "Why a gaming crash is inevitable" sort of videos. This is due to in part because of social democratic(as in non-Blairite/third way) and left liberal views being more dominant worldwide, leading to more regulatory practices against predatory corporate behavior. Also the idea of "Games as a Service" dosen't exist TTL outside of maybe actual MMOs if you consider them as games as a service, and the few attempts at GAaS never took off.
 
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