Comment by RiverCrochet

You can only boil the frog until it dies. If there isn't a true dependency relationship then at some point the industry will die.

In the 2010's, when short on money, I noticed my cable+Internet package was above $200. I took a look at things and cut the TV service, keeping the Internet.

Movies and theaters thought they were untouchable until they weren't. Games can keep increasing their subscription fees until people just stop playing them. There was a world before video games, after all.