The Online Digital Ecosystem Already Changed

This month specifically the video game industry was altered forever. With vibe coding, backwards engineering, advanced AI mods, and new emulation systems, on top of jailbreaking every console, we now have a far more open source industry. Our online browsing ecosystem changed while you weren't looking even though you are the reason it changed. Because of Google's AI browser results, we saw SEO become absolutely useless. Ad revenue dropped at staggering levels for small, medium and large businesses. So much so that many have had to shutter. No more ad click revenue, which may be better for consumers, but hurt the income streams of many. Now Google is switching from an ad revenue click stream model to a licensing deal model with specific third parties. Software in general has become fully replicated with long standing companies seeing drops in subscriptions from people who would prefer not to be price gouged, and are instead trying out open source mirrors of older suites like Adobe. You can bet Autodesk is not far behind. I think it's useful to remind yourself that any game that is released now will no longer be subject to the old familiar economic and consumer models. Those games wil