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Video games spending by young Americans is dropping sharply, report suggests
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Well now you've met a statistician, a person with an Econ degree, specialization in Econometrics who is telling you the BLS numbers have been garbage for 2 years, based off of how many revisions they have to keep doing, and the magnitude of those adjustments. I've been a professional data analyst at multiple large companies for years, I'm not going to explain this further unless you want to pay me for the full 40 page methodology breakdown. Real time economics is not hard for me, it was my career until I retired. Damn near every single measurable metric in the US economy beyond what's in the most easy to consume, most non specialist oriented media is screaming that everything is going tits up. Hey when wss the last time the Fed had to significantly jump into the Repo market to bail it out? Oh, right, it was this past week. I'm not going to bother to list out every single indicator because 1) I'd break the lemmy comment post character limit (its 10k, btw) and 2) I'm used to being paid for such detail.
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Maybe they can ask their AI to inspect the size of everyone's nose? Maybe that's the trick to get us to buy more AI chips in our games and TVs and phones and cars and in our fruit probably. There's gotta be AI in our food somewhere.
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This is why publisher's are trying to derail "Stop Killing Games." When they are done with a a game the don't WANT you to continue to play and enjoy it.... ...they want you to forget about it and buy the next product they have
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I will say though, if you're the kind of guy who likes MMOs and RPGs (like me) you'll *love* dune. I used to play a ton of RuneScape back in the day, and recently I've been playing Eve and Star Citizen but dune is just a better game in every possible way than those three. I've been so obsessed that I had to uninstall it this week so I could get to sleep on time for work haha
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Nice! I am too, I'll have to check out the modpack loader thingy that sounds fantastic!
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Depression has me not so interested in playing games anymore. Reading instead. Gaming is losing its magic for me. Iām 36.
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I'm not young or American, but I can tell gaming has been changing. I can't even remember what was the last "AAA" game I bought, because it must have been a couple of years ago. Most games I buy are 40ā¬ connoisseur titles or 20ā¬ indie games. I don't hear about any "must-play" AAA titles through the grapewine these days. I *do* hear about interesting indie stuff all the time, though. Most of the 60ā¬+ games I hear about are kind of niche stuff.Any AAA game I got in the last decade I waited till it was dirt cheap. Red Dead 2 was the last one I bought and played through was maybe 15-20 bucks or something?
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This post did not contain any content.It's a two part answer. One, gamers have less money to spend, along with everyone else. Two, expensive AAA title games these days tend to be shit, from a graphics, code, community, and content standpoint. If you want good games, cheaper is usually better. Last AAA title game I bought was Borderlands 3, and I don't see myself buying anymore in the next two years or so.
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Nice! I am too, I'll have to check out the modpack loader thingy that sounds fantastic!
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I still play multiplayer, but on games that still support community servers like Minecraft, Enshrouded, Arma 3, Space Engineers..
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Yeah there has always been sales and "greatest hits" type shit, but go back and look at how much they were charging for the NES and Super Mario Bros. 3 back when they came out. Then adjust them for inflation.
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Nitpick: It's probably not the _devs_ so much as the capitalist owners and management collaborators. I'd guess most of the people making the games would be happy to have someone play their game at all. It's not like they typically get a cut of the profits (again: capitalism)
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It's fun how when you could really most use a reliable distraction you start to not be able to find joy in things you used to.
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>for barely 40 USD of content This is completely relative, and different for everyone... But I have a hard time backing up statements like this given that it costs nearly $20 to go to the movie theater and watch a 90 minute movie. If I can get 40-150 hours from a $70 game... That's really not that bad. I think we have been a little bit spoiled (that isn't to say that video game publishers aren't greedy corporations that over charge to increase their profit margins, of course they do and fuck them for it).But you can get hundreds of hours from a f2p game, so that's the competition $70 games have. Then there's older triple a titles that are cheaper, and there's so many that it's not possible to have played all of them. Then epic giveaways, game bundles, indies, etc. And price increases push more consumers away from impulse purchases. And that can lead to them becoming patient gamers once they see not buying at release isn't a big deal.
Sorry but I couldn't resist the opportunity 
