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PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨tonytins@pawb.social⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/pc-gamers-spend-92-percent-of-their-time-on-older-games-oh-and-there-are-apparently-908-million-of-us-now/

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  • ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I bet a small portion of them don’t buy GPU every gen or ever other. 1080 Ti strong.

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    • ottr@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      1070 gang for me

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  • PigStyle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Factorio considered older?

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    • Baggie@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Probably? I have memories from over a decade back so

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    • Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I mean, Factorio’s early access is the middle point between now and when God of War 2 was released. Meaning that when Factorio was on early access God of War 2 was as old then as Factorio is now.

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    • frezik@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The article puts the cutoff for “old” as being 6 years or more. Officially, Factorio was released in 2020, but we all know that any other studio would have considered it done years before that.

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    • DrDickHandler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      DLC is new…

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      • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        So much more room to grow in SPAAAAAAAAAAACE

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I don’t even know what the newest game I even own is… Helldivers 2? Except for Elden Ring and it’s DLC, I haven’t bought anything close to release for years. HD2 came out last year and I bought it last week.

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    • TheLowestStone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Baldur’s Gate 3 and Elden Ring are the last 2 AAA games I bought close to launch for full price. Other than that, I picked up Hades 2 in early access. The rest of my library is all stuff that I bought on sale.

      I do have Monster Hunter and Avowed on my wishlist but I think I’m going to be patient. If I do pull the trigger, it would probably be for Avowed because I want more Obsidian games. On a related note Grounded is $20 on Steam right now so I stopped that up even though I beat it back when I had Game Pass.

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      • kiwifoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        BG3 isn’t an AAA title. Larian is an indie studio.

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    • tonytins@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yeah, I’ve lost track myself. I just follow feeds that alert of me free deals.

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      • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I actually learned that I can’t even sort my Steam library by release date because of this thread. Otherwise I would actually know lol

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  • Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I see tf2, i click

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  • nocklobster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Where my Civ 6 people at?! Wooo!

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    • OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Civ4 is the best Civ.

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    • daddy32@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I saw a stat on Civ VI steam page today that 45 000 people were playing it at that moment. That counts for something!

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    • SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      UnCiv yo

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  • termaxima@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    92% of my playtime is Minecraft, makes sense.

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  • mooncake@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    World of Warcraft.

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  • Xella@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yep… lol I spend an embarrassing amount of time playing EverQuest 1 emulation servers.

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    • scala@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      EQ emu’s ftw

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      • Xella@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        THJ right now!! I’ve been playing on emu servers for so long. I’ve played on almost all of them.

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  • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I have been playing Galaga regularly since 1981. Still play it at least once a week.

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  • capuccino@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    if you mean i do spend my time playing nes and snes via emulator, you are right

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  • WhatSay@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Older games & Indie games

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  • TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    launches Baldur’s Gate.exe ♪♫ “Brave, brave Sir Garrick, Sir Garrick led the way. Brave, brave Sir Garrick, Sir Garrick ran away.” ♪♫

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  • Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Me a fraction of a fraction of the gamer community playing only recent PCVR games and also Noita.

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    • hisao@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Any recs for person who enjoyed HL Alyx + community mapsets and Ancient Dungeon VR?

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      • DABDA@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        COMPOUND
        Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades

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      • Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        If you like roguelikes like ancient dungeon i would highly suggest until you fall and for a more story based game if you haven’t played lone echo 1 and 2 you’re in for a treat.

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  • Zerberr@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Really looking forward to Kitten Space Agency though

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  • whotookkarl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Older games = more than 2 years old? Then the same goes for readers, movie and TV watchers, etc media consumption most isn’t from the current or previous years

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  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’m playing a new old game, because i’m playing the Suikoden Remaster. There for I have beaten the system by simultaniously playing both an 20+ year old game and a brand new game thats a few weeks old.

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    • DontMakeMoreBabies@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I got a steam deck on the way and I’m so stokes for Suikoden. I hope they remaster number three!

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      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Suikoden 3 needs far, far more than just a remaster.

        It needs a full blown remake, both of the story, and the game, to get rid of that trinity sight mechanic. cause the constant shifting perspectives absolutely kept me out of the game, cause every time I start to get invested boom rip me out of it and make me control someone else for a long period. I understand what they were trying to do, but it was one of the most fundamentally bad game design choices i’ve ever seen.

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      • Mic_Check_One_Two@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        The Steam Deck is actually wonderful for retro games. EmuDeck makes setting up emulators a breeze, and the roms can easily be found online legitimately ripped from your own copies of the game and loaded onto a MicroSD card.

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  • Zink@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It’s the Baldur’s Gate saga for me right now, and I’m still in the BG1 campaign.

    It is such a great game to play on the couch with a trackball while chilling with the family.

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  • PanArab@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    My most played game in my Steam library is Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus which came out in 2013.

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  • mohab@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    True in my case. All of my favorites either were released before 2020 or originally released before 2020 and I'm playing the re-release.

    Only new IP I got excited about after 2020 was Project G.G. and I strongly doubt it'll ever see the light at this point.

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  • skozzii@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    What about new games, like world of warcraft.

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  • CalipherJones@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    New games are steaming piles of shit most of the time nowadays.

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    • tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Old games were also typically steaming piles of shit. It’s just that the ones people still remember are the worthwhile ones, because the bad ones have gone into the dustbin of history.

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

      Survivorship bias or survival bias is the logical error of concentrating on entities that passed a selection process while overlooking those that did not.

      There were so many bad platformers for the Super Nintendo, but nobody is ever going to go back and play those or dredge them up.

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      • CalipherJones@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Yeah that’s a good point. As a kid I felt like when I bought a game it’d at least be complete, but there were plenty of terrible games back then too.

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  • dan1101@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The most expensive game I’ve bought recently is Mechwarrior 5 Mercenaries, which came out 4 years ago.

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    • orbitz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      With different mods each playthrough can be quite different too. That’s why easily modable games are awesome for their price. Of course I just like being in a big shooty mech to blow stuff up so may be biased on that one in particular.

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  • F_OFF_Reddit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Either oldish titles or Indies, mainstream game devs are pure malaria

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  • ansiz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    There is just so much time in a day and I think nostalgia does come to play with this as well. Gaming tends to correlate to being younger and having more free time, so by playing the same games you did back then you’re reliving those days.

    Just a thought anyway, I tend to play older games as well, but also newer games like Baldur’s gate 3 or Path of Exile 2.

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  • Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Heroes 3 HoTA is still excellent and being actively developed.

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  • Naz@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Helldivers 2 came out in 2024

    By definition, that’s last year, so it’s an old game.

    Bwuh?

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  • Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I do not. I haven’t played a gamer older than thirty years old in years

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  • umbraroze@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Much of my PC gaming, back in the day, was “oh this looks like a good game. Runs like dogshit on my PC though. Maybe I’ll wait until I get a better PC.” [wait 10 years] “My ADHD has gone worse, I can’t play all this stuff”

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  • GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I can agree with this: All the hype around KCD:2 led me to buying/playing KCD:1

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  • TechAnon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I play Rocket League and ~30,000 MAME games on a converted Arcade 1up. I’m waiting for my payment to go through for Vintage Story though – that one is fairly new!

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