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Nearly half of US kids want in-game currency this Christmas
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OK, must be nice? I don't care about that. I just want to play games on my couch. PC gaming is a huge pain in the fucking ass so I stopped PC gaming like 5 years ago. I am too old to be spend hours try to fix broken games.Good for you! I find modern consoles to be a cesspool of data theft and annoying logins that I dont want (in, Microsoft account for xbox), plus not owning any of my actual games is a red flag, as well as needing internet to even play a single player game. However I get it for ease of use if youre already in that space. I also enjoy making things much harder than they need to be, hence my 15 year old cpu linux gaming pc I keep hobbling along!
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Not to mention there’s hardly any micro transactions left, a lot of these micro transactions are the prices of full games or more!
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I think most games get shut down when they still have players. Plus they could release server code so people could host their own games, like in the olde days of the 1990s. They don't because they're primarily concerned with profit. That aside, "it brings joy" is not sufficient on its own as a justification. Heroin brings joy, but you likely wouldn't say that's a fine gift for a child. Why is that? Probably because we recognize the potential harms and unhealthy habits. Maybe you accept the risks and harms of digital slop are acceptable. I don't think I'd want to encourage that in children.I don't say I want to encourage that. All I want to say is that this might be a similar situation to the "satanic panic" in the 80s and 90s which in hindsight feels stupid and a thing of the past.
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who, kids? it's all relative. anything before the living memory of teens is retro. that's why it takes 20 years for stuff go to become cool again.I hope you said something like, "oh, that looks cool, can I try?" And then go around easily killing some enemies you already know and then comment on how easy the games kids are playing these days are.
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Terrifying how when they grow up they will influence the gaming landscape to become even more hellish. Ill go back to my games before 2008 now bye.
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I would say 'no' on principle. No child of mine will EVER receive virtual currency as a present for Christmas. I would sooner buy them £120 worth of games than even £5 in Robux.
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And my kid wants a fingerboard. What's next, pogs?
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because that's what the majority of people play. the majority of people buy 1-2 games a year and play them all year. COD, sports games, the big popular shooters. they are casual fans. they don't give a shit about stuff like Expedition 33 and would be totally uninterested in a game like that as boring and stupid. all my friends/family who play games think I'm a gay weirdo for liking non sports, non military, non driving games.Its partially lack of marketing. You have to have the time to be at least somewhat keyed into the gaming community to even know what exists and is good. For example I don't have a lot of time to play, so I am ideally looking for something like 15-30 minute increments. All the mass produced things marketed on tv or whatever are that type of game. God forbid I find a game and then realize it has some punishing save system.
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..and the world was a better place for it.
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The current landscape of gaming is so foreign to me. Gaming for me has always been an experience to get lost in a fantasy world — something akin to reading. Nowadays everyone seems obsessed with the online and competitive sides of it. It feels like you can't have a conversation about videogames without someone bringing up Fortnite and the new skins they unlocked by treating it as a job.Well, some people just treat it like playing sports. Wanna go play ball? Wanna play CSGO? Hey, this ball/shirt/skin looks fancier! It's foreign, but understandable to me. It also seems to be as many people as it was back shooters became a big thing. Out of the few people I know who video game, one only does FPS, one sticks to a few different games (Ultrakill, TF2, Peak to name a few), one either plays co-op with his gf or does Single player, and one mostly plays single player like me. Chatting up random people about games, that ratio seems similiar.
