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Video games spending by young Americans is dropping sharply, report suggests
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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.Sure... But the existence of f2p games doesn't really affect how much I personally value an hour's worth of video game entertainment. It should also be noted that companies don't make f2p games out of the kindness of their hearts, they are making money somehow, and if it's not through microtransactions, then you are the product.
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Can’t wait till the indie wave wakes up the realization that there is a goldmine of 90s games that were incredible. Star control 2 for one could probably be mistaken for a new indie hit nowadays.
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Agreed. Many good games dropped this year. Expedition 33, death stranding 2, oblivion remastered.
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A new Star Control is coming up, made by the OG developers. I am very much looking forward to it. [Free Stars: Children of Infinity](https://store.steampowered.com/app/2853290/Free_Stars_Children_of_Infinity/)
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Sure... But the existence of f2p games doesn't really affect how much I personally value an hour's worth of video game entertainment. It should also be noted that companies don't make f2p games out of the kindness of their hearts, they are making money somehow, and if it's not through microtransactions, then you are the product.Paid games hasn't kept them from not having aggressive microtransactions themselves and sometimes worse. And there's so many sources of games now beyond big publishers. The gaming landscape just isn't the same as in the past that it can get away with setting whatever price they want and expect to turn a profit. The old hour of value stance isn't as relevant, and is more likely to lead to bombs even amongst triple A publishers with their vast marketing budgets with that attitude. There's way more options now that people don't have to settle.
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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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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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youtubers and twitch streamers who spent the past 6 months complaining about how games shouldn't be that expensive
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This post did not contain any content.Back in the early 90s I would walk into a store, buy a game that came in a box with a manual, take it home and it was mine. I bought the 1st Civilization like this. I still have it. No Internet needed. That's the way it should be. All the online, dlc, mini boxes, group play, create online accounts.....fuck all that shit.
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It's good, there's been a few major updates adding new zones, better NPCs, animals, more gear/weapons, and so on..
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At least it is still being updated and just happy to hear it hasn't gone dark like most other Early Access titles.
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Or even better, play an old game that you still haven't played. I can get titanfall 2 for the price of a coffee and play it for the first time if I'm craving for a good AAA fps.
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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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That and broad, massive economic collapse in basicallt every other sector, at least in the US.
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I'm a younger millennial and bought just under 2 years ago. At like peak interest rates... Other than cost of houses what would a crash mean to the economy anyway?Uh, in a few words: Great Depression 2.0, potentially worse. The dollar has lost roughly 10% against all other currencies, because we are a debt laden nightmare that is either going to or beginning to default, going to not be the world currency / favored safe asset nation for bonds. And we produce basically nothing tangible, we import a lot, so... everything gets more expensive. Also we functionally just fired all our construction workers and farmers via ICE raids, so food goes up in price a lot, probably shortages, ie, famine... and we can't actually build any new houses or warehouses or office buildings or anything without much higher cost, from both imported materials and higher labor costs... Oh right and the dollar tanking generally means oil, gas goes up in price, so anything involving logistics is now considerably more expensive. Oh and basically everyone in the bottom 2/3rds by income distribution is in massivr amounts of debt, so, garnished wages, reduced consumer demand... Yeah, I could go on, but I am quite serious when I say this could actually be worse than the Great Depression. ... I hope to god you didn't buy in roughly the lower 1/3rd of the country, almost all of those areas will be uninsurable within 10 years due to more frequent and more severe climate/weather events. SoCals gonna burn down, Florida's gonna sink/melt into the ocean, get washed out by hurricanes.
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Uh, in a few words: Great Depression 2.0, potentially worse. The dollar has lost roughly 10% against all other currencies, because we are a debt laden nightmare that is either going to or beginning to default, going to not be the world currency / favored safe asset nation for bonds. And we produce basically nothing tangible, we import a lot, so... everything gets more expensive. Also we functionally just fired all our construction workers and farmers via ICE raids, so food goes up in price a lot, probably shortages, ie, famine... and we can't actually build any new houses or warehouses or office buildings or anything without much higher cost, from both imported materials and higher labor costs... Oh right and the dollar tanking generally means oil, gas goes up in price, so anything involving logistics is now considerably more expensive. Oh and basically everyone in the bottom 2/3rds by income distribution is in massivr amounts of debt, so, garnished wages, reduced consumer demand... Yeah, I could go on, but I am quite serious when I say this could actually be worse than the Great Depression. ... I hope to god you didn't buy in roughly the lower 1/3rd of the country, almost all of those areas will be uninsurable within 10 years due to more frequent and more severe climate/weather events. SoCals gonna burn down, Florida's gonna sink/melt into the ocean, get washed out by hurricanes.
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I live in the UK, but our economy seems to generally follow the US except without any increase in productivity for over a decade and wages are trending towards minimum wage.Ah. Well, as you can see, I am most familiar with the US economy... but uh... broadly speaking, ya'll did the whole Brexit thing, and as best I am aware off the top of my head, ya'll are a bit more economically intertwined with the US than most of the rest of the EU... So, as the US collapses, that'll disproportionately affect the UK as compared to other Eurozone economies, the financial / currency / bond market situation in the US will 'contagion' over to the UK faster, as will demand collapse for material goods and services. But, I'd have to look over UK econ data in detail to be more specific than that. Out of curiosity, can I ask what you approximatelty paid for the house in the UK? One weird thing that could start happening is that as the US dollar devalues... is that people/corporations with mostly USD will start trying to buy homes in places that they expect will have relative currency appreciation compared to the USD... basically, slow or long term currency arbitrage via homes as mainly financial assets.
