As a old member of Gen Z, i can definitely say the prices aren’t helping. A lot of people in my age group just don’t work from what i’ve seen, so with 70$ and sometime 80$ games they aren’t going to be buying many. On top of that, and this may just be the people i’ve exposed myself too, but most of them don’t want longer experiences. They’d rather plop down with something like FF14 or Mario Kart and play that over and over and over again. That’s not a bad thing, but i definitely think it’s not helping. And like i said, this might just be the people i expose myself too.
Submitted 1 month ago by mintiefresh@piefed.ca to games@lemmy.world
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MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
tangycitrus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
True, I enjoy games like Spelunky and old arcade racers a lot more. Play for a bit and leave it. No story to worry about.
MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I can definitely get that. I like to keep a good few games on hand i can just hop into after a long day, it’s nice to be able to kick back with smaller games even if my favorites are always bigger story games.
MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
people are cutting back on purchases period.
has little to do with culture, quality of games, etc. A lot more to do with the fact that inflation has gone fucking insane.
Evrala@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I keep buying games on sale but I’m just not playing much of my backlog.
I keep going back to a few strategy games and putting even more hours in. The vast majority of my gaming in the past 2 years has been between 3 games.
Ultimate Admiral Dreadnought - Janky, and I have problems with how HE shells are handled in the main mod I play, keep booting it up. 850 hours played.
Star Wars Empire At War. So many amazing mods.
Wartales - game gets stale after a while but it’s good enough that after a bit I go back to it to put even more hours in.
I have so many amazing games that when I do play them I love them, but I keep going back to these strategy games. Oh, and a bunch of time on Need For Speed Heat.
I’ve been spending a bunch on other games, but I’m just not playing them.
mohab@piefed.social 1 month ago
Then who is? Millions of people are gonna buy the new Call of Duty on release. Who are they?
0li0li@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Kids on consoles with mom’s money, those kids that eat up shit like Fortnite and other live-service shovelware.
pycorax@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
With how much CoD costs and how the player base tends to abandon the game once the new one releases, Game Pass is pretty much the most logical way of getting your hands on CoD. I reckon most people play it through that.
REDACTED@infosec.pub 1 month ago
I sometimes forget GenZ are now adults. Some now do porn.
mapleseedfall@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Well you cant say that without giving some recomendations around here
Stern@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Why buy new when I have a backlog, the PS1/2 catalog emulated, and can wait 6+ months for a sale
SonicDiarrhea@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I recently softmodded my ps2 for about $30 (freemcboot memory card and large usb drive) and I’ve got hundreds of hours of nostalgia driven gameplay ahead of me. It’s incredible to think that I have about 40 old, amazing games for less than half the price of a single new AAA game.
Mostly_Roblox@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The seven seas are way more friendly
PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
The economy is terrible with both hardware and software becoming more expensive, theres a good selection of free and long-lifetime games (be it live-service or just very long and replayable), and a lot of the newer paid games have become worse.
I’d be significantly more suprised if this wasn’t the case.
WraithGear@lemmy.world 1 month ago
oh they are talking about AAA and AAAA games, so then they are not buying/playing fewer games but moved to the indie scene.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Just to add a contrasting perspective I feel like it’s been an absolute golden age of gaming for me lately personally:
No Man’s Sky still getting relatively fun updates. Cyberpunk 2077 was great on launch and arguably much better now.
The Last Of Us Part 2 on PC is incredible and I’m happy that the port exists so I could experience it. You haven’t really played the game till you replay it with both protagonists wearing their Hotline Miami shirts in all the cutscenes. PS4 Spider-Man on PC was prolly the best superhero game I’ve played.
MSFS2020 opened a whole new world of flight sims to me, especially when it comes to doing fun VOR2VOR navigation with littlenavmap charts printed to PDFs and attached in VR, and Assetto Corsa did the same for racing sims.
Speaking of VR, H3VR is stronger than ever. I have many fond memories of VRChat just a few years back.
Victoria 3 has a really fun thriving modding scene. Indie games like Sea Power, Flight of Nova, Stray, Ultrakill, World of Horror, Nuclear Option, Descenders and Crisis In The Kremlin: The Cold War have been a big timesink for me lately as well as classics of indie like Suzerain and actual art masterpiece DEFCON.
It’s also been great to go back and play old classics and PS3 emulation now that PC hardware is much cheaper after the crypto/scalper crises circa 2018.
Also, with Steam play and the steam deck, PC Gaming is easier than ever and just hassle-free.
I never played the popular junk so ig to me all this gacha mtx horse armor crap just doesn’t really relate.
Phegan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Buy Indies. Fuck AAA
Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Aren’t we all, fam?
Takios@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Unsurprisingly. Games have gotten way more expensive and a lot more soulless. Gems like BG3 are a rarity. The recently released “enhanced” edition of Neverwinter Nights 2 is an awful cashgrab and an disappointment after the successful enhanced edition of the first one so I’m just playing through the original release with an unofficial patch again…The only game I’m looking forward to this year is the new Anno and given that Ubisoft has its fingers in it I’m still wary about that one.
astutemural@midwest.social 1 month ago
drasglaf@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
For people outside of .world (like me):
!foss_gaming@lemmy.world
Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Support indie games. Great games and no where near as pricey. Then just pirate the triple a titles through fmhy.org or something
commander@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Live service on console was obvious on the way for every genre back on the 360/PS3 era with FIFA ultimate team and publishers also having that period of time when they were trying to kill used games with that single account multiplayer access code
Then it became super obvious because of PC from the super success of TF2 hats and eventually CSGO skins by like 2015. Trying to compete with WoW was an ocean of dead video game studios. Fortnite perfected live service on consoles and CoD adapted and went just as wild with it
Single player games, my hot take is Mass Effect, Uncharted, and Assassin’s Creed killed AAA single player narrative games by succeeding so well to making future games mediocre. Mass Effect had interesting alien species dynamics but never took them with much of any depth. They were Star Wars movies rather than the wild Star Wars EU. Uncharted was a hyper popular Hollywood blockbuster where the emotional highlight being the beginning of Uncharted 4 with Nate and Elena being a cute couple.
Assassin’s Creed stories kept going deeper and deeper into name dropping famous figures/mythology that it became parody. Historical clout chasing wrapped together in a nonsense overarching plot that should have had some satisfying ending back in 2012 but instead is effectively spin-offs the series
So Mass Effect hints at interesting politics but plays things safe and gives you none but Hollywood space opera in video games with solid animations and facial animations were fresh in the 360 era. Uncharted was even more extreme in that regards than Mass Effect where there was still novelty in Hollywood mimicry with even better graphics and even more scripted for explosive set pieces. Assassin’s Creed and eventually Far Cry and Watch Dogs are bottom feeders. Chase trends, name drop - shotgun approach for trailer fodder. They are sadly the standards of AAA single player narrative
Also live service single player games are competitive. Stories are just as shallow but frequent in release and graphics at a level good enough now. Talking like Genshin Impact, Honkai Star Rail, Wuthering Waves
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I hope they make it abnormal to own a $3000 gaming pc in middleschool again.
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
I don’t even have one that expensive, even now that I earn enough. Anything above $2000 is just going into silly territory where the marginal improvement per dollar increase is weak.
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 1 month ago
$2000
$1000
mugita_sokiovt@discuss.online 1 month ago
I’m taking the Rossmann route on this, and using a net in order to get games that are no longer on any storefront.
That’s what my producer, Neigsendoig, did with WWE 2K19, because it’s abandonware now by most standards.
Katana314@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What did James Gunn say about superhero movies? It’s not that the trend is over and people hate these games. It’s that they hate BAD games.
Plus, I’ve been buying plenty of indies that likely don’t feed into these statistics. It’s not even a hipster thing now - a lot of streamers just like playing the newest indie coop like REPO, Peak, Phasmophobia or Lethal Company.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 1 month ago
I’m only ever buying coop games nowadays. Playing coop is simply the most fun you can have playing games. I’m a Millennial tho, and I do pirate the occasional AAA game.
MITM0@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Translation: Gen-Z does not want to buy those godawful AAA games.
atticus88th@lemmy.world 1 month ago
My son stopped playing some of the latest stuff because of the crazy levels of anti cheating intrusionware. Better mental health not playing competitive multiplayer too.