Why are Zoomers so obsessed with Steam Charts and player counts ?

why are soillennials so obsessed with zoomers

>>713470259 (OP)
Can't be seen liking something that isn't popular. It's why when a zoomer gets BTFO in an argument online they bring up likes/followers.

because the only measure of quality they know is Big Number Going Up

>>713470259 (OP)
Because the streamers they watch talk about them all the time so they mimic them

>>713470386
>It's why when a zoomer gets BTFO in an argument online they bring up likes/followers.
its not only them getting BTFO but them actively getting angry and cutting people off from their life when they are told social media sucks

>>713470259 (OP)
They believe games aren't worth playing if there isn't 10 billion people currently playing as shown by steamcharts also if It didn't sell 50b copies within the first hour of release then it's a bad game

>>713470370
fpbp

>>713470259 (OP)
>>713470386
>Can't be seen liking something that isn't popular.
That's a good point.

But I think it's also about how games are so similar and homogenic nowadays. Same graphics, same polished gameplay, same microtransactions. The only thing that differentiates games is their popularity.

>>713470601
explains why they only play BR games and nothing else, they even shit on normal multiplayer FPS games like CoD,Halo,BF

>>713470259 (OP)
Aww did someone's favorite game fail to sell and now you're buttfrustrated over the statistics showing its failure? What was it, Veilguard? Come here lil bro, come give daddy a hug, it's gonna be OK. The Concord dev build just got released so you can still play your second favorite game. Hush now, no tears, only dreams.

>>713470259 (OP)
/v/ggers started the trend by praising Starfield to high heavens for having 5 million players

>>713470259 (OP)
ywnbaw

>>713470751
explain how its a bad game then

>>713470259 (OP)
Four generation theory states Zoomers are a repeat of the Silent Generation. The Silent Generation is noted for extreme conformity and "what would the neighbors think?" mindset which led to the Red Scare of the 1950s and other moral panics.

The zoomer can't just enjoy things, they must know that other people are also enjoying things and that they are part of the in-group.

The current marketing practice which was imported by the chinese is to bot the living shit out of their games with puppet accounts and try to shame people socially for not playing these games.
This is mistaking what a player count metric would ostensibly represent, actual player interest, turning it into basically worthless garbage data, like youtube view and like counts, or the Steam Hardware survey.
The vaguely comes with the idea that you can berate random people online that they're somehow a weirdo and maybe squeeze a couple hundred sales out of a failed game.
This generally doesn't work on actual human /v/ users because there's no incentives here to pretend to care about terrible games

>>713470370
because you ruin everything

>>713470751
>concord fags can play it again
>I STILL can't play Darkspore again
I am SO FUCKING PISSED at ea

>>713470259 (OP)
Why?
>Crypto shit
>Clout that can be measured in viewer numbers
>Black pilling statistics

>>713471048
but i did nothing

>>713471048
literally did nothing and you're seething lol time for bed grandpa

>>713470849
>Junction System is trash, overly complex, punishes magic, yet still allows you to faceroll the game
>Rushed and confusing typical jrpg story slop
>Wooden and terrible protagonist who says "..." more than any other words
>"Love conquers all" is vomit-inducing
>"We all grew up in the same orphanage but forgot"
>Level scaling
>Femboy antagonist
>Limit break spam is a viable strategy
>Triple triad fucking BLOWS ASS
>Drawing magic is tedious
I'm 40 years old. I played it on release. It sucked then, it sucks now, it has always sucked and it always will suck. You got suckered in by the word "Remastered" again. It keeps happening. Kill yourself.

>>713470259 (OP)
Reminder:
>Millennials are the generation that normalised LGBT bullshit, which in turn resulted in the tranny epidemic we have today
>Millennials are the ones who normalised hating capitalism
>Millennials are the ones who invented r*ddit
>Millennials are the ones who normalised the iPhone and use of the internet, thus resulting in what we have today
>Millennials are the ones that normalised entitlement, laziness, and have innovated nothing
>Millennials are the ones who invented the use of trigger warnings and safe spaces
>Millennials are the ones who normalised hating white, straight blokes
>Millennials are the ones complaining about capitalism while still sucking off corporations that "support" their LGBT and Nigger Lives Matter agendas
>Millennials are often the ones who raised most young zoomers, thus resulting in the poor image we have of zoomers today
>Millennials are the ones who tried to boycott Hogwarts Legacy and Harry Potter in general because of "transphobia" (biology)
>Millennials are the ones trying to push body positivity (just accepting fat fucks that refuse to improve)
Stay mad, millennialcuck

>>713471617
uh, boomerbros??

>>713470943
Oh, and it also doesn't work because Gamers aren't women like the chinese.

>>713470259 (OP)
validation.
Is also the reason why there's so many anons crying muh trannies and muh anime and shit. They need to do so to get their good boy points on twitter.

>>713471048
you are most likely a millennial, and millennials are the generation that started the downfall of the internet

Earlier zoomers are based
Late zoomers were all raised by the hell millenials made and are therefore cucked

>2025
>still hating on zoomers
It's not 2017 anymore, no one cares.

>>713470259 (OP)
It's the facebook boomers that care so much about steam charts. Notice how those posts are always made with an undercurrent of complaining about wokeshit.

>>713472028
This is pretty true, honestly. '99 zoomer here and most of the zoomers around my age are pretty based. The earlier zoomers I don't know, because I don't talk to literal children unlike OP.
Also, There was a 60-40 ratio in favour of voting for Trump in 2024 when it comes to zoomers. I'm not American, so I don't care that much but it says a lot about the American zoomers and that the majority of them are more "based" than other gens.

>>713470259 (OP)
People don't actually play games so they can't articulate actual opinions. Instead they can use an arbitrary value to justify their preexisting opinion on something.

>>713470259 (OP)
>Why
Same reason why SNOYS are obsessed with sales figures and market dominance. They are corporate marketing victims.

>>713472591
>voted to be conscripted
lel are zoomers really this retarded?

>>713471617
>we will surely get them this time

>>713471048
>do nothing
>shitlennials still seethe

>>713472762
So you admit Kamala is a better candidate? nah nigga she was a weak-willed, alcoholic, woke Karen.

>>713472821
>all true btw

>>713471617
>>Millennials are the ones that normalised entitlement, laziness
>>Millennials are the ones who normalised hating capitalism
Good goy.
And you are not entitled for others to care about you and your shit, faggot.
And the rest was done by jews.

>>713473217
millennial jews*

>>713471048
>projecting this hard because gen x and boomers said the exact same thing about you
You realize that their parents said the exact same thing about them, right? This was the entire message behind Naruto I think

>>713471048
I don't think about you at all.

>>713471617
>>Millennials are the ones who normalised hating capitalism
Won't someone think of the poor capitalism?

>>713471515
>I got my opinion from a youtuber!
Holy NPC kek. Already closed the thread the second this post gets sent so don't even bother replying. You and I both know I just killed you

>>713471617
>Millenials only expanded on the LGTV+ nonsense with entitlement and deeper mental illness but LGBTQ was already normalized in late 90s
A part of Millenials are retarded activists, that is true, but the actual people hate the late stage cancerous capitalism, not the healthy one.
>Zoomers are 2x lazier and gayer than Millenials and also more terminally online. Spending time online was inevitable once the average joe could connect to it. At least the old internet was a good place to hang out
>Uppity kikes normalized white hate. Lurk more newfag
>Millennials didnt raise Zoomers. Gen Xers did
The funny thing is that Zoomers have more things in common with Millennials, than with previous generations. Millennials and Zoomers are parts for the same cloth.
Do come back in a few years though, when Gen Alpha will blame your ass for the current state of affairs. The new gen talking shit to the previous gen is a tale as old as time.

>>713470259 (OP)

>>713471617
damn bruh look at all these seething millennials KEK

We live in world of metrics. Spotify monthly listeners, Netflix streams, Youtube subscribers, Xitter likes, patrons, algorithms, impressions, views, dollars. It affects all of us, but I think it really did a number on the generations born roughly after Y2K, who can't remember a time before this shitty horrible way of doing things.

Of course in the past you could find out how a TV program was doing with Nielsen ratings or whatever, but it's unprecedented how much corporate interests bleed into the user's social space through social media, with brands trying to seem like your hip-talking friend. And corporations have such a prodigious selection of slop on offer, that it feels like everything is competing for limited attention in a zero-sum game - more than ever before.
The result of all this endless shilling and fighting over which brand is thriving in the market at the moment. In the past shit got canned all the time, but we just accepted it and moved on, more or less. The modern consumer has been trained to identify with brands like a shareholder, because he kind of is one. If your gacha content mill withers away with a declining userbase - money stolen, and all that jazz.
This gets extended to things it probably shouldn't, like one-off video games in a series, like Zelda or Fire Emblem. But that's how people have been trained to view everything now.

>>713473517
you wouldn't get any of that under communism, my friend. you'd instead get long food lines and stale bread

>>713470370
>why are soillennials so obsessed with zoomers

Meanwhile, you probably post about a dozen comments a day seething about Baby Boomers, and are going to call someone else "obsessed."

>>713470259 (OP)
Because they don't realize that games can have healthy, active communities without millions of players.
Multiplayer gaming was huge in the 90s and I absolutely guarantee none of those games had more than 2,000 concurrent players at peak hours.

/v/ has shitposted about Steam charts long before zoomer became a buzzword.
I swear you can just type any garbage in the OP and a bunch of pseudointellectuals will run in to support it despite having no idea what they're talking about >>713470386 >>713470510 >>713470601

Thats more a symptom of Western Civilization switching from a life guided by values and traditions to policy and economics. Life not to be enjoyed but to be solved. So having the numbers on your side or having the math in your favor means that you've won in defense of your worldview

The same plauge is happening outside vidya. Cars for example are raced more on the bench with dyno numbers and muh HP than actually on the tarmac

>>713470259 (OP)
They're faggots with low self-esteem, who can't think and need to know that whatever they're doing is the cool thing to do, so they rely on herd behavior and talentless grifter shitheads to inform their opinions.

>>713471048
>>713470370
Nah Gen X is literally the worst when you realize how many of them are responsible for Big Tech and the worst fucking invasions of privacy and most sociopathic ideas for how society should be sculpted.

They really dont get enough hate when you consider they gave us pic related, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Bezos, Muskrat, and whoever the fuck invented twitter

And before you say they arent Gen X. They are as its late 60s to early 80s

>>713470259 (OP)
Those threads are created by brazilian gen alphas.

>>713472821
Everything millennials killed, zoomers will revive. Evil destroys, good creates.

>>713470259 (OP)
Because it provides a way more accurate measurement of success than the horseshit big corpos feed everyone.

>>713471617
>Hippie Boomers
>Hippie Boomers
>Gen X
>Gen X
>Millenials
>Hippie Boomers
>Raegan leaving a bad taste and Gen X being raised by Hippie Boomers and wowing over Clinton
>yes every future generation is raised by the previous???
>yes Millenials but you can see why they are like that when you see their Gen X parents or Hippie Boomer parents
>Hippie Boomers started this when they stopped grooming themselves and being well dressed


All I see is that hippies and Gen X are to blame and Y and Z are suffering for it.

>>713470259 (OP)
>steam charts and player counts
What was the boomer equivalent of this 15+ years ago?

>>713475917
>they arent Gen X
Marky Zuck is a Xennial. You people are ignorant when it comes to Gen X, Xennials and Millennials/Zoomers/Alphas.

>>713471048
We did nothing

>>713476687
Maybe Famitsu scores for tendies, and assorted other (semi)local magazines.

>>713476874
Oh wow they bleed into each other for 2 or 3 years. You think that changes anything? My point still stands

>>713470259 (OP)
I play an online game that regularly gets sub 100 players, but it has an extremely dedicated and autistic fanbase so matches rarely take too long to find. Guess the game and ill give you my peanut butter cookie recipe

>>713477070
>You think that changes anything?
It does, actually. Those few years were very distinct. A watershed moment.

Personally I don't see ANY difference between tail-end millennals, zoomers and earliest alphas. History has been so stagnant for the past 20 years.

>>713477112
GunZ: The Duel.

>>713470259 (OP)
Oh that one's easy. Zoomers have zero critical thinking skills and develop no personal taste because everything is served to them by some bot or AI bot. Why bother having your own taste when an algorithm will do it for you? As a consequence Their only way of discerning any merit is solely through numbers and statistics. You see the same thing on /mu/ they can only call something valuable if it has a lot of streams or high places in charts or posts on social media and will spend several threads arguing over these numbers.

yet another zoomer bogeyman thread
what’s the point of posting these?

Basically all women. They need social consensus to get onboard with anything.

>>713470259 (OP)
Chart threads are always bait threads. Hate’em

>>713470392
accurate

>>713472821
this is all true

>>713470259 (OP)
This isn't a zoomer thing. Nerds love data. That's why famitsu threads are popular too. NPD threads were the same back when they gave us numbers

The people to complain about "sales threads" are either low iq retards who can't appreciate statistics, trends, patterns, etc, or people who for whatever reason feel offended or threatened by the data on display

zoomer music is actually pretty good. The earlier zoomer stuff is at least.

Although I actually agree that most of us are pretty fucking stupid. I find that the people born before 9/11 are just about the same mentality wise as Millennials.

>>713479557
>statistics, trends, patterns
There's nothing cool about these. I bet you are one of those bozos that also think boxoffice numbers directly indicate how good a movie is.

It's to justify their game purchases
If there are no other people playing, then they possibly can't enjoy the thing themselves, every single action is weighed by external validation.

>>713477581
The term "boomer" is literally reffering to "baby boomers" in the 1960s. So 65 year olds. Where the fuck do you all get your info from? Lol

>>713470259 (OP)
Have you every used social media other than 4 chan? It's all about likes and upvotes. The value of every single object or idea has been reduced down to how many likes it gets. 1 player essentially means 1 like.

>>713470259 (OP)
Millennial here, I too enjoy Steam Charts and player counts because it's funny watching games flop in objective statistic measurements.

>>713472591
>There was a 60-40 ratio in favour of voting for Trump in 2024 when it comes to zoomers.
No there wasn't, they literally voted for Trump the least out of all gens. Trump's approval ratings are also consistently lowest with zoomers especially zoomer women. Gen X and even millennials are more based.

>>713471048
Your generation lowkey ruined western videogames. Reminder that you create the videogames.

>>713470370
They're coping with the fact that they are now the old lame adults shitting on kids for liking shit like Pokémon

chat is this real

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_j1Q1fJiik

>>713471048
rent free

>>713470259 (OP)
>waaah stop looking at our shit sales for our propaganda
troons are upset they didn't groom the youngest generation with their slop?

>>713470259 (OP)
Because they're desperate to be validated with their choice of fandoms