More than 60% of US game players only buy two games or fewer per year, survey finds | VGC

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• Davel23@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  I'm subscribed to Humble Choice so I "buy" 96 games per year. But I buy less than one full-price, "AAA" game per year.

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• GammaGames@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This isn’t surprising to me, with so many free to play games and the fact that this survey included mobile gamers

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  • Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not even necessarily F2P. Depending on what you have access to, Epic, GOG, Prime/Amazon Games, Steam, Itch, and a few others all release freebies nearly every week. Some of them are even AAA titles.

    If you’re not supremely picky about what you play, you can get hundreds of free games over time.

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    • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨13⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Since I started !freegames@feddit.uk I’ve not bought a single game but my backlog is growing way faster than I can play through it. Not a bad first-world problem to have, really!

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• Lfrith@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  I buy maybe over a dozen games a year, but sometimes spend less than the price of two fill priced titles. Benefit of patient gaming, and leads to not needing the latest and greatest hardware as a result saving me more money.

  So when people complain about optimization of recent triple a titles I have not yet encountered those issues due to being behind.

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• dom@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sign of the times.

  I used to buy a ton of games. Its now hard to justify with the price of everything going up so dramatically. I still buy more than average, but probably more along the lines of one every few months and never full price releases.

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  • theangriestbird@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah I’m right there with you. we are the 22% of US game players that are not directly discussed in this article, the ones that are price sensitive but still buying games on a semi-regular basis. Mat Piscatella suggests that it’s that most frequent 14% at the top that are propping up the legacy industry these days, and he’s probably right. I’m inclined to believe that those of us in the next 22% still account for a decent chunk, but more and more of us are shifting towards spending money on live service games only. Idk how some people can afford to spend money on every new game as they come out, that cohort must be almost entirely wealthy folks at this point.

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    • Lfrith@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      I’ve played live service games with the one I’ve been playing being The Finals, but I’ve spend 0. But, have all the BP just from the multibux I saved up for free.

      I’ve wondered what percentage of live service gamers are like me spending no money on them.

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  • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    At this point I’m lucky if there are two games worth paying for in a year. Just bland boring empty soulless games every time.

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    • dom@lemmy.ca ⁨27⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Yeah. The indie game scene really is where the value is

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    • theangriestbird@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      empty soulless games

      I agree, more soulslikes! MOOOORREEE!!!

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• orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I definitely buy more than 2 games per year, but the types of games I buy and the maximum price I’m willing to pay has changed. Almost everything I buy now is from indie devs, and I’m very selective of the larger studio games I’ll buy (right now, for example, I’m cranking through Alan Wake 2 after replaying the first one).

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• missingno@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I haven't gotten all the way down to 2 yet, but at the rate I'm going, I could see it. I've settled into mostly grinding the same few forever games while the mainstream industry moves further and further away from my tastes.

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