Ok but doesn’t every tracking company pretend they don’t track kids’ habits? The whole industry is built on fraud.

That include fortnite skins?

M-discs don't rot, theoretically they're one if the best consumer long term storage mediums. I think the practical issue with them on a super long timescale is keeping a functional reader if blurays fall out of fashion.

> ~~Video games~~ spending by young Americans is dropping FTFY

- overpriced games - fully-priced games with microtransactions and day 1 DLCs. - overpriced hardware - games released broken, fixed later - Invasive DRM - Always-online requirements - annoying ads/microtransactions - invasive telemetry - third party launchers - third party accounts - Publishers intentionally misleading reviewers - False/misleading marketing from GPU OEMs What else am I missing?

BG3 is still from a mid-size studio, Larian is not AAA, they are AA. They are just really fucking good at what they do and are able to pump out AAA quality cause they focus on their strengths, which is making CRPGs, instead of trying to chase trends.

The death of community servers is why I stopped playing multiplayer. The gaming landscape was just so much better back when communities were able to self-host and moderate before matchmaking and corporate automated moderation became the norm.

Hey, having access to entertainment is actually pretty damn important. What you gonna do to pass the time? Though honestly, wasting the limited power someone would have after the grid fails on gaming isn't the brightest of ideas. Not to mention, after the collapse, free time will basically be a rare luxury. Your entire time would be taken up by surviving and maintaining your ability to continue to survive, especially if you aren't preconfiguring a community support network for when shit hits the fan and just going the "lone prepper" route.

I echo this a developer with a top app on the Meta Quest. My USA sales have fallen off a cliff, while other regions like Asia and Europe have increased a little.

I rarely buy new AAA games. Mostly indie titles and heavily-discounted AAA games.

Or roblox money. They seem to be doing fine

When new games are approaching $100 and you know you can wait a month or two for it to drop $40 it's an easy decision

Mayhaps the former young Americans are now aging into, uh… being not young Americans? Mayhaps said former young Americans also don’t have children because this entire county’s culture is all about feeding all the money to 1%ers yacht purchases? I honestly don’t trust any “adult” who’s my age that doesn’t play viddy games, like what are you into for entertainment? A lamp?

60-80 for the base half-finished game plus 30+ for DLC, console extras

how big is fortnite still, i feel like it has it wow phase, 2016ish and it kinda dropped off.

its half assed, like a something switch console game of nintendo has been doing since 2020, which turned me away from the console altogether, i stuck to pc , but not high end games.

I know I'd rather wait a month than spend $40+ extra for the privilege of being an unpaid beta tester

Show me the Lämp, brother

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

i think the impact of all the free games shows too i removed a bunch of shit from my wishlist because it was free on epic amazon or gog at some point. my heroic games launcher library keeps growing and i dont see the point of buying games when i have this huge backlog of things i actually want to play. notable exceptions to the no buy are extreme high quality outliers like baldurs gate and cyberpunk(dlc) and niche indie games i want to support. those i buy on steam (or gog) at the same time i hope i only cost epic and amazon money