Its the replayability. I mean, look how many people are still playing chess. Stick a human intelligence on the other end of the stick and you’ve pretty much got it figured out.
Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now
tal@lemmy.today 1 week ago
7.1% of the total hours spent were on Counter-Strike: Global Offensive / Counter-Strike 2 6.4% were in League of Legends 6.2% were in Roblox 5.8% were in Dota 2 5.4% were in Fortnite
That is a lot of people playing F2P competitive multiplayer games.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 week ago
LacklusterGamer@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I read every one of those and thought. Well that’s a new game. Apparently I’m old.
tal@lemmy.today 1 week ago
Apparently I’m old.
Further down in the thread, I ran into someone talking about an older RPG, Realmz. I dug up a subreddit on Reddit related to the game, and the stickied post had this gem:
old.reddit.com/…/assorted_realmz_files_codes_real…
These are codes that were reissued by Skip (Aka. SpoonLard). He and my grandfather were the original two collaborators when Skip attempted to carbonize Realmz in 2005.
Nothing like a comment about someone’s grandfather having tried twenty years ago to modernize a game you’ve played in its original form.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
League of legends is two decades old now, so if you’re thinking it’s new, yeah that’s on you 😜
LacklusterGamer@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’m going to be honest I just looked up the game for the first time and had no clue it came out in 2009. I hadn’t ever heard of it until a few years ago so I just figured it was some new game. The whole warcraft/dota thing was crazy to me.
blazeknave@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The amount of times I “finally sit down and watch that new Netflix show I’ve been putting off” and it’s 7 years old. My kid is into “newer Disney stories” I don’t know from my day… that are 25 year old films!
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
25 years so… Tarzan? Lilo and Stitch? The Emperor’s New Groove?
kionay@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’m playing Counter-Strike 2
… exclusively on a modded server hosting a Warcraft mod
… that I found because I was searching for the same thing I played on CS:S over a decade ago
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
besides the lower bar of entry due to being free, Midias research has shown that yhr younger generation prefers online multiplayer, and as you grow older, you start yo favor single player games more.
smeg@feddit.uk 1 week ago
My personal hypothesis is that everyone likes online multiplayer initially because it’s pretty cool, then you get bored it when you realise playing with angry randos is no fun. It’s not that a younger generation prefers online multiplayer, it’s that they haven’t got sick of it yet!
AnyProgressIsGood@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I don’t get how people are still into those old games. I like new experiences too much
icecreamtaco@lemmy.world 1 week ago
People don’t get bored of playing Basketball because they want Basketball 2
Buelldozer@lemmy.today 1 week ago
The game may be old but that doesn’t mean a particular person has played it before.
GoumLeChat@jlai.lu 1 week ago
Free is an important reason why. Also, these games run very well on old machines. If you mostly play that and get a new rig, you don’t have to spend a lot.
tal@lemmy.today 1 week ago
I get free reducing the barrier-to-entry, but I kinda look at games in terms of “how much is the ratio of the cost to how many hours of fun gameplay that I get?”
I mean, I have some games that I briefly try, dislike, and never play again. Those are pretty expensive, almost regardless of the purchase price.
But the thing is, if it’s a game that you play a lot, the purchase price per hour of play becomes almost irrelevant in cost-per-hour of gameplay. I’ve played Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead — well, okay, you can download that for free, but I also bought it on Steam to throw the developers some money — and Caves of Qud a ton. The price on them is basically a rounding error. And the same is probably true for the top few games in my game library.
You could charge me probably $2000 for Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, and it’d still be cheaper per hour of gameplay than nearly all games that I’ve played, because I’ve spent so many hours in the thing.
If people are playing these like crazy, you’d think that the same would hold for them. That the cost for a game that you play like crazy for many years just…doesn’t matter all that much, because the difference in hours played is so huge that it overwhelms the difference in price.
fartsparkles@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Free means you can easily get any friends to dip in and play which is a big factor.
tal@lemmy.today 1 week ago
Hmm. That’s a thought. I guess that that’d mesh with them also all being multiplayer.
Takumidesh@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Free means a hell of a lot when you are a child with approximately $0 in expendable income.
GoumLeChat@jlai.lu 1 week ago
I’m old enough to have bought TF2. Played a little less than a thousand hours. Even counting a few in-game purchases, the cost per hour is very low.
But free means no barrier, you can join anytime,m and stay if you like it. Your friends can try it out too.
logan_hero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
3/5 games from that list also launched as paid games, but gained majority of its players after becoming f2p. Yeah people love free stuff ¯_(ツ)_/¯.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Soo… What I’m getting is that you kinda like a game called Catapult: Streets Ahead?
tetrachromacy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Love seeing another person with lots of hours in Caves of Qud. It’s rapidly climbing up my hours played list since 1.0 release. Bought it at 17.99, played for 220 hours so far. Math says that’s 9 cents an hour, and I’m still not done playing. Live and drink, friend!