Thread 714451926

why aren't you buying video games anymore?

theres like two good games every three years average. nigga i can divide

>>714451926 (OP)
Many people simply grow out of them as they get older but also a lot of younger people seem to prefer watching a videogame playthrough on Twitch as a weird parasocial thing than actually playing it themselves

>>714451926 (OP)
they decided I'm not their core audience anymore so I really don't see why I should buy them, if anything pirate them instead.

I only buy Nintendo shit and they've had a slow couple of years
I've already spent more this year than the last two combined

>>714451926 (OP)
I already play older games
There's not a lot of quality games being released anymore

What is "buying"?

>>714451926 (OP)
because gnarly got me

>>714451926 (OP)
But I am, just not the games the industry wants me to buy. If they want me to pay for their AAA dogshit they could at least make it more intellectually stimulating and complex than Reader Rabbit's Kindergarten Adventure
A high bar, I know, but if they want $80+ for that shit then they'd better reach at least that high.

>>714451926 (OP)
>vidya industry only churning out low effort slop
>WTF WHY NOBODY BUY OUR GAMES???

Damn zoomers be broke as shit

>>714451926 (OP)
the world is collapsing. Need to choose food and bills over games.

Cost of living is too high and mobile and some PC games are for free and humiliated AAA games.

Because I realized I get a better experience when I pirate video games instead

>>714451926 (OP)
What do I needs besides Factorio, GTNH and Part of Exile, literally set for life at this point.

>>714451926 (OP)
who is "you" in this conversation exactly?
Me or this hypothetical "you" created by untreated schizophreniac mind?

>>714451926 (OP)
anyone under 30 is broke af

>>714451926 (OP)
I play everything on gamepass, and I already have a big backlog to complete of games I own + the switch, wii and all nintendo system emulators.

I'm in no rush to buy games day one.

>>714451926 (OP)
There haven’t been any new games that interested me lately.

>>714451926 (OP)
theyre bad now?

>>714451926 (OP)
There's just a shitload of excellent games from the late 80s to late 2000's I could emulate instead

>>714451926 (OP)
For a normal person coming up right now, all the best games to play are already F2P. Fortnite, Genshin, etc. They just don't have a reason to actually buy the newest $80 slop.

>>714451926 (OP)
We're broke, anon. The tariffs won't help either. That's why we resort to stealing and pirating shit

>>714451926 (OP)
I pirate everything and only purchase the things I pirated that were worth my time spent on it.
The amount of games that met that criteria released in the past five years I can count on one hand. And all but one of them were indie games that were $30 or less.

>huge steam backlog
>very little incentive to buy games at launch when they all launch broken or missing features
>especially if they're going to be costing $80 now
>by the time all the content is out, the game is on sale for at least half off
why buy?

>>714452945
name them

>>714451926 (OP)
Simply 4 things. Emulation, F2P games, community-made source ports, and the Monkey Island quote (never adjusted for inflation).

>>714451926 (OP)
I have thousands of downloaded roms I will never finish in my lifetime.

Current slop can't compete.

Isn't it a well known fact that zoomies don't want to work?

They charge $80 for unfinished games that cost another $150 for the complete package, so people started playing old games which are way cheaper and coincidentally also better. Plus indie games. Something like 12,000 video games release every year and over 90% of them are less than $20 with a significant number being free.

I will never buy a 80/90$ game.
I even get shellshocked when i see a steam "sale" and the game is still like 50$.

>>714451926 (OP)
Life has become insanely unaffordable.
inb4
>just find le job
lol just lmao

>>714451926 (OP)
We want to but we can only cope by playing pirated old stuff

Like the other anon said, I'm no longer their core audience. I guess their "new audience" will have to buy their games now lol.

>>714453032
Backpack Hero, Pizza Tower, Palworld, and the Command & Conquer collection.
I'll be buying Fat Goblins when it releases later this year too.

>>714451926 (OP)
Because my favorite influence told me video games are a waste of time

>>714451926 (OP)
Wages have been stagnate for decades, the cost of living keeps increasing, and jobs are even harder to get.

>>714451926 (OP)
Poor plus nothing really to get excited about lately. Clearly I'm not the target audience of 95% of the new games releasing because I haven't cut my dick off.

>>714451926 (OP)
because most of them fucking suck

money is tighter
i have a big game library already
games are more expensive, would rather wait for a sale for it and by then it'll be updated a decent amount
the only times i'm willing to buy a game day 1 is if it's legitimately something i've been looking forward to for years

>>714452252
I want games "written" by actual stand up comedians willing to crack some eggs, not some drama club faggots walking on egg shells

>>714453493
Based Tatebro sigma baldmaxxer

>>714451926 (OP)
I still do buy games, but I'm very selective, so I'll never buy a lot.
This is talking about 18-24 year olds though and I'm way over that.

>>714452043
I think this is a lie. I almost did the same myself until I found VR. Then I got that same rush I got when the ps3 came out. Yall were sold a fake gen based on giving you more pixels of a "womans" 5 o'clock shaddow. Muh ray tracing and a "womans" chiseled jaw line. Studios are getting demolished by execs seemingly purposely.

>>714453917
The video game industry is still desperately trying to chase that Hollywood money.

lmao poorfags

>>714451926 (OP)
The 18-24 demographic watches twitch streamers instead

>>714454164
I think they're pulling the usaid type scam. The get into a studio, raise a bunch of funds from investors, then syphon it out to third party contractors that they get kick backs from. Tank the company then sell out the assets from underneath. Then those execs fail upwards to a new studio. It HAS to be by design or these people would never find work again yet they always money branch without even a delay.

>>714451926 (OP)
most games are woke now so they're going broke and that's a good thing

>>714451926 (OP)
Trump Recession
Everyone's hoarding their money in case they need to flee the gestapo.

I have a kid now, they're expensive and time consuming. Most of what I buy is small stuff while it's on sale.

>>714454487
If you have a kid you should really stop playing video games at all

>>714454471
Unironically this.
80 dollar games are too much of a luxury right now.

>>714451926 (OP)
Gatcha games are better

>>714451926 (OP)
>increase price
>offer games you can play for free
>off a sub service that lets you play a bunch of games for free
>"suddenly game sales are down."
damn.

>>714451926 (OP)
old games are simply better.

>>714451926 (OP)
you could replace "video games" in this title to literally anything.
we're in a recession fucking retards.

>>714454547
Man, at this age they sleep for something like 14 hours. Cleaning is an hour tops and then I can sit back and game for an hour or two. It's perfect.

>>714451926 (OP)
I just buy and play indie games that cater to my needs, not interested in AAA woke slop.

>>714454316
>It HAS to be by design or these people would never find work again yet they always money branch without even a delay.
Like when a company changes its ceo to someone who specializes is mergers and acquisitions, except these lead designers and execs specialize in tanking studios and ip

>>714451926 (OP)
Unironically because you faggot corpos keep killing them

>>714451926 (OP)
Im stealing them instead or mainly just playing old ones

Stealing from devs who make games you like is like taking a shit in your own cereal.

Maybe AAA should start making Eroge if they want my money? They won't and can't so I won't pay them

>>714451926 (OP)
nintendo has gone full anti consumer this gen
fuck them

>>714451926 (OP)
Well in the case of Nintendo I'm waiting for those new games to release. And in the case of PC, Steam sales suck anymore and I'm not paying full price for that shit since it's not Nintendo quality.

>>714451926 (OP)
Because they're shit or too expensive. All the fun online games you can play with friends are always like 10 bucks or under. The industry has been self-correcting lately, and shitty expensive games aren't gonna be appealing to the younger crowd at all.

It's just the way it is. Shit's fucking expensive in general, and the average person in that age group isn't gonna wanna pay $70 or $80 for every new game.

>>714451926 (OP)
Have you seen them? They're in engines like Unreal Engine 5 with poor coding by developers from the third world and run at like 10FPS. I didn't even buy any new games this year. Instead, I'm playing older ones or purchased their DLC instead.

My budget for a video game is $15 for a normal game and $30 for a game with online functionality. Not paying $70+ tip for a video game.

>>714451926 (OP)
They destroyed all entertainment so who cares. Super young zoomers probably will not even bother and alpha definitely wont. It is the same thing that happened to TV and movies

Because good games seem to come out less and less frequently, even though games are getting more expensive

>>714452015
There's at least one good game every month.

>>714457664
And this is if I know I will actually like. For unknown if I will like it games, my budget is maybe 3-5$ deep sale. 7$ if it was originally 50$+

I want to pick up phantom brave next

But I need a job :(

>>714451926 (OP)
Combination of forced woke shit in games, declining quality in gameplay and story (as a result of DEI), and just general lack of funds for a generation that is experiencing dramatic declining buying power for their dollar due to inflation.

being too poor to afford vidya is a blessing at this point but you wouldn't get it

>>714451926 (OP)
Games in 2025 = dogshit slop. I don't even pirate modern games anymore.

Since they aimed their games at niggers, faggots and woman, I'm non buynary.

>>714451926 (OP)
I'm non buy-nary

I don’t buy garbage or spend $70 on games and wait for sales on games I went

I wouldn't expect someone born in 2007 to think video games are fun or worth buying

>>714451926 (OP)
I was born the in 90s.
I already experienced the peak of every vidya genre at least twice.
AAA games have been garbage since the PS3 came out.
Indies are basically the devianart of gaming, presenting the same game I played on my PS1/Genesis but at a much lower quality and with trannies/niggers

>>714451926 (OP)
>Release slop
>People stop buying it
Huh, who woulda thunk it

>>714458000
name the last 6

>>714454639
>we're in a recession fucking retards.
Price of Bitcoin has been going up for a decade nonstop, we are in a bull market golden era were everything is more affordable than ever

>>714451926 (OP)
Because video games fucking suck.

>>714460892
bitcoin going up in value is a recession indicator, schizos are ditching fiat for something they believe (lol) wont lose value.
it's the same reason gold has gone up 86% in 5 years.

>>714454580
>paid subscription model
>with games for free
microsoft gaslighting has done irreparable damage to goypass users

>>714451926 (OP)
Well I kind of envy the youth. As a teen I had money problems so I really had to look around to get some money for a new game. Now you can buy tons of games that are like 10 bucks a pop that are great add to that Gamepass, epic free games and Amazon giving away 20 games each month end there's no real reason to spend real money for vidya as a young one.
But as a 36 yo who's married and has a kid, I have tons of money but I also have tons of experience in vidya, so you can bet your ass I'm buying Danky Kang day one.
Game for me and in a few years game for my kid. I really believe people like me are a big part why "high end" console gaming is dying and nintendo is making more then ever.

Even at my new job, my manager told me I should bring my switch on lazy days at work. He just assumed I had a switch. He also has a switch he brings to work, but my younger co-workers play f2p phone games

>>714451926 (OP)
What's the point of buying new games? My brother got his son every emulator with every game in existence for free, and he have only touched the sonic games anyways, if you are not a streamer you have no reason to be buying new games.

>>714451926 (OP)
>$70 - $80 new games
>co-op games being a bigger trend make needing friends a requirement, but we're all working now
>multiplayer games have a high skill ceiling and focus on comp gameplay which filters regular gamers
>quality of games going down across the board
yeah i wonder why no one is buying games right now

Not enough LGBTQAI+ representation.

>>714451926 (OP)
Most of them aren’t good, then most of the ones I am having fun with have some update that fucks them.

>>714462375
>when 10 dicks in your ass isn't enough

>>714452043
Most video games are fucking walking simulators and >50% cutscenes. Why wouldn't you choose to watch it on youtube versus paying $80 plus tax plus tip plus tariff?

>>714451926 (OP)
Gatekeeping works

>>714453163
Do you pick titles to play by throwing darts or something? Inquiring minds want to know.

>>714460761
Soijakie Chan

>>714461635
Nah most multiplayer games lock you in that's the problem. If I cant come and go as I please I don't give a fuck. Don't tell me what to do videogame.
For example
MNC join server play for hours leave whenever I want. Players come and go autobalance does its job.
SMNC forced teams. People leave and are never replaced. If you leave yourself you get banned for 50 years.
Embarrassing state of affairs.

>>714460761
January: The Stone of Madness
February: Pirate Yakuza
March: Two Point Museum, Khazan
April: Blue Prince, Clair Obscur
May: Shotgun Cop Man, The Midnight Walk, Duck Detective
June: Dune: Awakening

>>714451926 (OP)
I don't buy games that have niggers in them

>>714451926 (OP)
The last game I bought was almost a year ago.

>remake game
>it costs $80
why buy remade game when I can just play the original I either have or can pirate?

>>714461308
You don't get it, I pay monthly for FREE games

>>714451926 (OP)
Most games are absolute ass, most good ones are old and the most popular ones are free.

>>714451926 (OP)
>report doesn't mention games are just absolutely dogshit in current year that everyone is burnt out and fatigue they would actually just play old games and watch old anime or go outside.

>>714451926 (OP)
zoomers just play brapnite, brap theft auto online and brapblox. also a spattering of their fav ecelebs game of the month

I just bought stellar blade though. I just buy games that are made for me instead of randomly buying every other game I see 10 years ago.

>>714451926 (OP)
Let's see
>Have quite heavy DS and 3DS collection, thank God I did so before 2020 shit
>Bro gave me his Xbox SX, we managed to find fuck tons of X360 and One games for dirt cheap
>my Steam has 220 games
Yeah I am good

Too expensive, everything also becoming increasingly expensive, and games being too shit. I haven't enjoyed games, especially AAA, in decades. Same with all entertainment media, really. The kind of thing I like is no longer being made and I can't stand modern trends. Even pirating isn't worth it. It's a waste of money and time.

Every game after 2012 plays like a single player MMO

>>714451926 (OP)
>Almost every game is free
>What's being sold is cosmetic shit that nobody cares about
>Rest of the games are just remasters of games I've already played
Perhaps make something new and enticing?

>>714451926 (OP)
Nothing worth buying anymore.

the last video game release was elden ring

>>714451926 (OP)
bullshit clickbait article. nice try pajeet. Jabba the Newell/Bobby Cocksuck isnt begging on the streets anytime soon.

>>714451926 (OP)
Because they're $80

Is this video game spending on gatcha shit or on real games?

>>714451926 (OP)
>zoomers doesn't fuck
>zoomers doesn't game
What a retarded generation
How will we sustain economy with shit like this?

>>714451926 (OP)
How about you make something I'd want to buy first and then we'll see

>takes a decade to make one mediocre game now
>"wow why are people buying less games"

>>714465312
>June: Dune: Awakening
LOL

i pirate.

>>714470091
Zoomers are Boomers reincarnated.

All generations are just three cycles of ghosts.

Golden Generation - Gen X - Alphas

Progressive Generation - Silent Generation - Millennials

Lost Generation - Boomers - Zoomers

I can't even buy a GPU

The past five or so years have been the years in which I have bought the most recent games that aren't on a steep sale. However I am neither young, or American. Most of said purchases have been indie games, or games with a max price of 50€ on launch. I will be making an exception this year, for Anno 117, but only because the dev diaries show the Devs are sticking to their vision and 1800 was a great game. I think there's a lot of really great games going around if you're part of a specific market niches. Especially if you're into managing, wargames, puzzles, or horror. But if you're the kind of guy that only likes genres that NEED to be in the mainstream's spotlight, in order to get enough sales to pay off development, then I can see why you wouldn't be buying any games. Microsoft has a treasure trove of IPs that it could remaster and port, but it just pumps out pure garbage instead. I have been waiting for a shooter like Medal of Honour Pacific Assault, but instead all there is on the market is sliding simulators with Nicky Minaj skins on guns or whatever. I can see why some kid who just wants to play a shooter with his friends would stick to a F2P game in those circumstances.

>>714470343
Boomers weren't raised on Ipads

>Economy in America is absolute shit
>Costs of basic goods and services needed to survive have skyrocketed
>Job market for people graduating college is nonexistent unless you got a degree for a really expensive or niche STEM degree

Yeah gee it's a real mystery why people can't afford games, especially when tons of people are struggling just to make ends meet while games and gaming gets more expensive for overall less value and the market is dominated by free to play titles. I swear every analyst working in the games industry is fucking retarded.

>>714451926 (OP)
People dont have any money, we're in a global recession that is not being acknowledged.

People who have money wondering why people who don't have money don't give them their money for products that aren't a necessity will not stop being funny to me

Too many f2p whale bait live service games out there that suck up interest and time that could be spent on diverse gaming.

It's like the sports games + fps era but now with a live service option for other genres too so it's not just the casuals affected.

>games frequently go on sale, so unless it's something you REALLY want, not worth buying day 1
>and even then, usually day 1 releases have tons of bugs, they have to use a lot of FOMO shit to get people to buy
>economy is rougher, people are expecting to buckle down and save money for emergencies

i don't even think new game releases are bad or anything, shit's just expensive and I have a huge backlog

>No need to buy game day 1
>No need to buy game early access or pre-order
>Sales come and go
>backlog games still exist
I've finished like 20 games this year from my backlog and bought maybe 5 games...

>>714451926 (OP)
Because f2p sloppa is all they play. As video games become more normalized, the more social they are. They all just play Apex, Roblox, League and whatnot and don't spend a dime.

Gets worse when you start including all the f2p mobile games, which they grew up on.

The only games I bought full price this year were Monster Hunter Wilds (lol I know) and Expedition 33 but only because it was $50. Everything else I've played i either got, "free," with an online service or on a massive sale. Games are way too expensive and janky to buy on Day 1 anymore. I might get Ghost of Yotei full price since I'm really looking forward to that game, but even that one I don't really feel the need to get it day 1 and would rather wait for the sale.

>>714451926 (OP)
good question. here's a clue

>everything is more expensive from basic goods to videogames
>games release broken or are simply not that good

Real mistery here

>>714451926 (OP)
Groceries nigga

>>714465312
all garbage that won't be remembered in a year

>>714451926 (OP)
I can't afford groceries.
There are already millions of games available for free.
Most zoomers get stuck playing the same F2P live service game.

>>714473365
man I had this experience PRECISELY with that battlefront 2.
I am now wondering if I should make an account or refund my 4 dolla

>>714451926 (OP)
Because they're 80 god damn dollars for crappy remakes and half assed new titles

>>714451926 (OP)
Is it "spending on new games" or is it "spending in total", because GAAS slop has long taken over and it's getting worse.

>>714451926 (OP)
this circana graph explicitly records data from april 2025 against april 2024 and is only measuring video game consoles rather than video game market as a whole
retarded

>>714451926 (OP)
denuvo is very off putting

>>714451926 (OP)
The industry focused on live service to the point everyone has a "forever" game they will play for ten years, ignoring the rest of the market until the devs push a game-ruining update.
As for games that aren't tied to the idea of continuous updates, there's decades of old games that are cheaper and often better than what gets released today. People aren't going to buy the latest here unless it's truly exceptional or has some quality that turned it into a cultural sensation.

>>714473564
lmao people dont remember it NOW

>>714451926 (OP)
I am but I'm not young

>>714452945
Based, I do the same.

>>714480118
I'm so tired of this performative shit. Why do faggots on twitter and reddit pretend they can't afford to feed themselves anymore

>>714473564
The endless fucking cope you subhumans are on, truly incredible.

>>714451926 (OP)
Because they're fucking expensive and the people who make them hate people like us.

>>714451926 (OP)
I already bought them all on past sales.

>>714452015
This

>>714451926 (OP)
The video games are beginning to sink. But it’ll be a very slow descent. Hollywood has been sinking for decades and still pumps out movies and shows. This just means that, like Hollywood, video games will be consolidated to a few safe bets with no risk taking.

>>714480172
>pretend
Have you ever heard of LARP? They do it for pity points, maybe you are more familiar with the term "karma" that we mock redditors here for "farming"

>>714465312
>>714480192
but YOU'RE the one playing subhuman slop?

>>714451926 (OP)
Not a mutt but they haven't made any good games that were marketed to straight white males. Simple as.

>>714451926 (OP)
>good indie games that get long term support are cheap
>long term support for games means less games are bought
>people are more broke than previous generations
>youtube/social media algorithms are eating peoples attention span

>>714480172
Isn’t zoomer unemployment at like 12%? The people making these memes are young NEETs who can’t even get a job pushing carts. All the entry level jobs that teens and early 20’s would do are now taken by immigrants. No parent is buying a $70 game for their jobless 21 year old.

>>714481009
>parents
So they can still afford food and don't pay any rent, making the meme exactly as performative as I said

>>714451926 (OP)
They're in the process of becoming a third world country, of course they aren't buying games.

>>714451926 (OP)
>cost of everything else rising, less disposable income
>games increasingly ask for more of the players' time: big empty open worlds, "hold button to confirm" mechanics, etc.
>more free (or "free") games available than ever, making it a bigger ask than ever to spend money on a new game
>spending is down from covid, when everyone was flush with stimmy checks and needed something to occupy their time during lockdowns
none of this is surprising. and this is also to say nothing of
>game devs/publishers/social media managers frequently talk about how much they hate their audience, stop making games for people that buy games, etc.

I bought pretty much every old game I'm interested in during steam and gog sales, and there isn't much new stuff that looks good so I stopped spending

the three "big notable" games that have gotten notable attention this year have been peak (10 dollars), deltarune (30 dollars) and E33 (50 dollars)
AAA games aren't selling

also more brown people nowadays and they only play porn and gacha slop (not claiming that the sun bakes your brain, but...)

>>714481757
Don't forget Schedule 1, that was big for about as long as Peak was (3 days)

>>714451926 (OP)
Because they keep killing games.

shit's bloated beyond repair.
teams now have so many non-developer jobs that it increases the price of development. Gone is the era you could find mid-budgeted games by small teams. Big names like Ubislop, Crapcom and Cucknami won't sell games unless they're 60gb fully voice acted RTX lagfests with gameplay of the depth of a puddle. Long gone are mega man, god hand, spin offs like metal gear acid and prince of persia, goldeneye and doom. ID could develop the revolutionary fps genre in a basement with passionate code monkeys, now small teams just do weak shit (pokemon, minecraft)

>>714451926 (OP)
>why aren't you buying video games anymore?
Please refer to the chart.

>minimum wage makes 50% less than it did 5 years ago
>WHY ARENT YOU BUYING GOYS!!!! BE ENSLAVED TO US FOREVER!!11

>learn engineering
>get a 3D printer
>make small parts that seem to only made in China
>meet with others doing the same and make a product
>sell it locally
That's my current game plan to escape poverty

>>714451926 (OP)
social media and other stuff is more important to zoomers than games, games are still mostly bought by 30+

>>714452043
Video game companies honestly need to kill youtubers and streamers pirating their games, why play it when you can watch a faggot play it 100%

>>714451926 (OP)
steam literally banned local pricing due to it being exploited
>turkroach

>>714486617
No they didn't, kek
https://steamdb.info/app/1627720/

>>714451926 (OP)
They aren't good.

>>714458000
>>714465312
This man literally eats human feces and wants you to share his taste in vidya.

>>714451926 (OP)
Publishers need to acknowledge the growing group of young people who exclusively play shit like Sonic fangames and modded FNF. It's only going to get larger over time.

>>714451926 (OP)
>jack up prices (base price, premium/ultimate edition, heaps of DLC)
>people stop buying
waaaooow

>>714453758
But anon, the current writers ARE trying to crack some eggs!

>>714451926 (OP)
Well I'm 37, I have a job and I can afford to waste money on videogames so I actually spent $1000 on video games a month ago.

>>714451926 (OP)
I am, but only when they're at sale. I'm not paying over 10€ for a digital game. With physical games I'm willing to go as high as 20€.

>>714451926 (OP)
They aren't for me anymore, they're for the Modern Audience. Why isn't the Modern Audience buying them?

Games have always been easy to get for free, granted not all of them, but a lot of them.

I mean... AssCreed Shadows and MH Wilds sold millions of copies...

>>714451926 (OP)
They look like this.

>>714452043
You sure? Are people chomping at the bits to watch Alan Wake 2 playthroughs?

>>714468220
Best I can do is a gay black deaf woman for the ninetieth time that'll be 80 dollars + 60 dollars season pass.

>>714453758
Most stand up comedians are either unfunny rogan boys, crowd workers, or the rare few that can do literally anything but videogames. You don't want games written by standup comedians.

A graphics card costs 400 dollars for 8GB which is useless. For the last 6 years these 8GB cards have dominated the market despite being 1080p and VRAM starved. The next range are 12-16GB cards which are 600-800 dollars. A prebuilt computer with an 8GB card costs over 1000 dollars. For a simple RTX 60 class, that's highway robbery. PC gaming is so fucked lol.

>>714451926 (OP)
I'm waiting five years to pick them up in a bundle for a dollar each.

>>714473564
>>714480467
>>714486809
Clair Obscur is one of the best games ever made. You lost and you need to get over it.

>>714451926 (OP)
>spending
why are they talking about playtime? do zoomers play less?

>>714451926 (OP)
Because I'm too busy playing what's already released. I'm only just now playing through the Yakuza series.

>>714451926 (OP)
>video game spending by young americans
The migration to "live service" aka gacha and older games finally happened in such numbers that even the rat faced coin counters figured it out.

>>714451926 (OP)
I always assumed vidya was a fad and that generations born after the 2000s would find other things to obsess over.

>>714452043
The games are so bad that's the only way to get any enjoyment out of them. Like the Minecraft movie where zoomies chose to trash the theater instead of watching it.

>>714491486
why do you hate brown mystery meat grocery store aunties you racist!

>>714473564
One simply does not forget best girl.

>>714493302
Games are just better when they're social experiences. Turns out expecting people to sit in front of a skinner box for hundreds of hours, stops working when they're able to have some approximation of a human interaction.

>>714491486
>Best I can do is a gay black deaf woman
The new thing is gay black deaf and bald

>>714452109
this
as a kid I didn't mind spending what little money I got on vidya but as an adult I can't justify paying for fun that I could get for free
it's shrimply basic economics o algo

Some guy just bought me a bunch of games. Why would I spend if others will buy me whatever I want?

>>714451926 (OP)
>2025
>parade of flops and disappointments
>industry clearly burning itself down
>cost of necessities climbing with no end in sight
>”YOU OWE US MORE FOR OUR UNFINISHED TRASH, $70, NO $80 DOLLARS AT LEAST”

This will save the industry

>>714495296
>plus tip, chud!