If I was chief exec of a gaming studio, I'd acquire a beloved IP like, say, Tomb Raider. Completely shred the development budget, cutting as much costs as I could and hiring an inexperienced team, and make the poor smurfers crunch because who cares? There's plenty more suckers wanting to make games we can exploit when this lot burn out. Let them do whatever they want with the game. It's probably going to be a mediocre piece of trout that's full of bugs but that's not important. The one creative decision I'd insist upon is easy: Make Lara Croft have a trans voice actress.

Anyway, launch happens (DAUNTLESS™ EDITION with low quality Lara Croft statuette and no actual copy of the game can be yours for $200 btw) and out come the mouth breathing pieces of trout who lose their utter smurfing minds about a trans actress being cast. We get meta bombed. The voice actress is taking endless harassment, and to a lesser extent so are my social media team but see my comments on the dev team - I can easily replace them. But don't worry guys, I'm not being harassed, I'm far too busy taking pictures of me hiking with my dog for Insta because I'm a cool and relatable CEO.

The anti-woke backlash gets a lot of coverage in media, both in your traditional gaming media outlets and on social media. The backlash to the backlash begins, people rush out to defend the game against the troutheads and a lot of people feel angry, hurt, frustrated and upset. They probably feel like Wolf Kanno seems to, but that's his problem.

My mediocre piece of trout game gets a lot more attention than it normally would, and by extension sells more copies than a mediocre piece of trout game should. Given my low investment in the production of this thing, I've made the company a tidy profit and the board approve my bonus. The game itself is largely forgotten after a couple of months or so.

Unfortunately because all the money went on my bonus, we can't afford to finish the Season Pass content (spoiler: it was never in the budget to begin with lol) sorry to all 6 of our loyal fans who are still playing this piece of trout but as Tomb Raider is out of the news cycle now, nobody is going to talk about this anyway.

I then claim another bonus after laying off the studio or having us be bought out by some other large multinational publisher. Because of my great track record of making money in the creative industries I go on to get the gig as CEO of DC comics, where what if we made a movie where Bruce Wayne was black and also a woman?

tl;dr: anger = $$$

anyway for more of this please join my late stage capitalism discord RP server