It also comes with the cost of a decreased English vocabulary compared to monolingual kids of the same age. The gap closes by adulthood, but there’s an argument to be made that a lot of schools need to prioritize English when you consider how poorly their students perform in reading literacy.

You’re confusing two different values for being the same: one is the profits of a publisher and the other is the profits of a development team within a publisher.

Yeah Activision is making record profits off the back of Call of Duty, Diablo Immortal, Candy Crush, etc., but Crash 4 seemingly didn’t meet sales expectations so Toys for Bob was restructured to support Call of Duty development for a while and are now making a GaaS Crash game. If the game rakes in $10 more per game, Activision would be more inclined to let them keep making single player games.

I can’t even understand what you’re saying. It’s all just jumble.

If you want to talk free market, consider that there hasn’t been a visible dip in sales among games that raised their prices to $70.

This is true, but consider that this is only possible because major publishers mostly green-light projects with well established IP or games with additional funding streams like microtransactions. Studios that don’t make a large enough profit often get restructured to work on more profitable games.

They went from 60 to 70 dollars because the cost of AAA game production has essentially doubled since the Xbox 360/ PS3 days. The most expensive games to make these days require millions of copies sold at full price just to break even.

Below it reads “game can be purchased at the register”. It’s just a sign, not the game.

It’s likely many people don’t feel the need to vote, so the results get skewed. Hawaii is perhaps the most blue-leaning state and Democrats I believe hold a supermajority at the state level.