I don't know about games but in indie music the market used to be saturated by free mediocre music, and now it's starting to become saturated by free good music

I don't know about games but in indie music the market used to be saturated by free mediocre music, and now it's starting to become saturated by free good music. But not because the musicians want to generously give all their music away for free, it's because they're all chasing the same goal of "if I give some away for free, the marketing boost will make up for it". And as more people enter the market, that belief gets less and less valid. I think there might be a lot of parallels with game-making. A popular thing to produce but the "game theory" behind it is tough as everyone races to destruction. I keep hoping that something like repeated-prisoners-dilemma will happen, where producers collectively decide to act in a way that is in everyone's best interest.