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Video games spending by young Americans is dropping sharply, report suggests
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I'm not young or American, but I can tell gaming has been changing. I can't even remember what was the last "AAA" game I bought, because it must have been a couple of years ago. Most games I buy are 40€ connoisseur titles or 20€ indie games. I don't hear about any "must-play" AAA titles through the grapewine these days. I *do* hear about interesting indie stuff all the time, though. Most of the 60€+ games I hear about are kind of niche stuff.Any AAA game I got in the last decade I waited till it was dirt cheap. Red Dead 2 was the last one I bought and played through was maybe 15-20 bucks or something?
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This post did not contain any content.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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Nice! I am too, I'll have to check out the modpack loader thingy that sounds fantastic!
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I still play multiplayer, but on games that still support community servers like Minecraft, Enshrouded, Arma 3, Space Engineers..
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Yeah there has always been sales and "greatest hits" type shit, but go back and look at how much they were charging for the NES and Super Mario Bros. 3 back when they came out. Then adjust them for inflation.
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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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It's fun how when you could really most use a reliable distraction you start to not be able to find joy in things you used to.
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>for barely 40 USD of content This is completely relative, and different for everyone... But I have a hard time backing up statements like this given that it costs nearly $20 to go to the movie theater and watch a 90 minute movie. If I can get 40-150 hours from a $70 game... That's really not that bad. I think we have been a little bit spoiled (that isn't to say that video game publishers aren't greedy corporations that over charge to increase their profit margins, of course they do and fuck them for it).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.
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This post did not contain any content.I don’t need the 7th iteration of the same game dressed up with new graphics for the price they're charging.
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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.Don't forget about microtransactions, they might be a significant portion of the decline.
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