>>510520467
Total loss of foresight about what makes games appealing to men in the first place. Games now are so largely focused on elements that females enjoy, it's fucking hilarious. Gaming has been completely and utterly feminized.
Think about it, every game is a farming sim, or is and endless stream of some sort of fucking fetch quest bullshit like: "take the gay shit to the retarded faggot" garbage that dominates the entire modern gameplay feedback loop. It's all about "collect 30 piece of gay shit" and then "collect 35 pieces of slightly more rare gay shit". Every single element has been wrapped in something plodding and monotonous in order to give a constant feeling of "progress" to the end user.
To top it all off everything is now designed explicitly to drip-feed you dopamine rather than dump it right into your veins. The goal is to keep you coming back as a repeat consumer. Something that wants you to stay "boosted". Games no longer feel intense because the fun gameplay is all hidden behind layers of modern horseshit. Combine this with the feminization of games and that's basically it I think.