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Video games spending by young Americans is dropping sharply, report suggests

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    Yes, I am using Arch btw 😜🀣 Sorry but I couldn't resist the opportunity 😁
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    rekorse@sh.itjust.works
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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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      Funny how that happens when people don't have any money.
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        Depression has me not so interested in playing games anymore. Reading instead. Gaming is losing its magic for me. I’m 36.
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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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          Can't afford a home, holiday and now videogames.
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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 40€ connoisseur titles or 20€ 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 60€+ games I hear about are kind of niche stuff.
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            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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              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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                Funny how that happens when people don't have any money.
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                And when so much of gaming is shit.
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                  We can't justify the price. The end. That's it.
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                  Eh. I know what all PvP centric games turn into unless you're willing to devote a fuckton of hours into it and get into a great guild. I'll pass.
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                    In addition to other's comments, I think that we just have enough good games by now that a lot of people can find a game they enjoy enough to sink 1000s of into. Minecraft, Factory, Satisfactory, Hollow Knight, Elden Ring, etc.
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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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                      It is here: https://modding-openmw.gitlab.io/umo/
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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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                        How has Enshrouded been doing? I haven't been able to get on my PC in almost a year and only got to play it on initial release.
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                          And when so much of gaming is shit.
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                          Honestly, this has been a great year for games. The past 5 years have been pretty great.
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                            GameCube games were $50 or $20 for player's choice titles
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                            prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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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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                              We can't justify the price. The end. That's it.
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                              jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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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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                                That's when you play PvP games that piss you off so much sadness goes to anger, which can be a nice distraction.
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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).
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                                  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.
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                                    I don’t need the 7th iteration of the same game dressed up with new graphics for the price they're charging.
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                                      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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                                      vxx@lemmy.world
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                                      Don't forget about microtransactions, they might be a significant portion of the decline.
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                                        I guess it's the over 25s buying all those Switch 2s then?
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                                          the people around 25-35 that dont play vidya are either into extreme sports outside all the time (adrenaline junkie) or are fat fucks who watch every show on the planet with 100 bucks a month in subscriptions (sedated paypig) oh and the other option is exhausted parents whose only wish would be uninterrupted sleep
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                                          I work a hard job then doomscroll Lemmy and YouTube when I'm not working in my shop.
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