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>>734089927
>63% of US Gamers Buy Two Games or Fewer Per Year
>only 4% of US video game players buy a new game more often than once per month
>With a third of players not buying any games at all.

>>734089927
no they'd rather try to turn more people into no kid fags with more free cash.
yes that means many very stupid leftists are supporting out of control capitalism that's at the point of grooming its own customers while railing against it.

>>734089927
the default popular mode of play is a gaas you exclusively dedicate your time to. not that surprising.

It' just that a good chunk of people play f2p stuff.
Check the most played games on steam, or on consoles if the data is available. Check /vg/. Most of it are f2p always online services

>>734089927
honestly i have more fun with the old games i can buy on steam for $5

>>734089927
>Can just play old cheap games/free games
>Amount of those increases forever
>Hardware getting more expensive

>>734089927
Because they're shit

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Roblox

>>734089927
Why would I pay for something I don't own anyway?

>>734089927
More like 5$. They didn't pay us, how tf are we supposed to pay them.

>>734091002
this. I have thousands of dollars I could spend on games but they’re all shit

>>734089927
>Absurd consumer grow on the pandemic
>Nooooooo people are no longer playing games, we need HEEEEEEEEEELPPP!!!!!
FUCK OFF

>>734089927
Try not making slop

>>734089927
Most new games are trash so I usually only buy like one or two per year

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Stop playing with your old toys anon! The economy needs your money!
NOW!

>US in a recession for everyone but the ultra wealthy
>Why aren't the cattle buying the newest piece of shit?

>>734091073
the licensing and subscription models these publishers use pretty much make piracy the only viable option of you want your shit to be yours. shouldn't have gotten so greedy, maybe people would buy more games if you're weren't paying $80 for a fucking license that can be revoked at any time and for any reason. the amount of greed in these companies is out of control

>>734089927
Yeah, nobody can afford full price games. I buy a full price game like every 2-3 years maybe. Maybe never again unless a series I like actually makes a good game

>>734089927
why would I buy seven- I mean eighty five dollar games? wages haven't gone up to compensate for inflation

>>734091168
This is the exact boat im in. There's literally nothing to play. No im not going to try the hundredth fucking metroidvania, nor the thousandth open world survival crafting sandbox. And certainly not bothering with the millionth fucking souls clone

Games are more expensive and shittier than ever, and live service games eat up a lot of people's free time that in the past would have been spent on a succession of different new games.

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>price hike on luxury goods in the middle of a massive economic war/recession
>nevermind the proliferation of free/"free" games in the last decade or so already eating into sales as-is
>"wtf why aren't people buying it anymore?"
what exactly did they expect

>>734089927
I won't spend more than $30 on a physical game. I won't spend more than $10 on a digital game. I will spend $100 bulk buying a bunch of games during a sale to play throughout the year.

Even indie games have been getting too expensive lately

>>734089927
There's no logical reason teh price of games shouldnt come down

>>734091808
Capitalist boomer nigger vampires always act shocked when they topple their own economy and blame everyone except theirselves.

>>734091027
Roblox saved me from buying REPO, had like 2-3 friends hyped for this shit.
>lets try the roblox version before buying
any interest just died lmao

>>734089927
>Increase game prices to $70
>Wtf, why have people stopped buying our games?
It's a mystery alright

>>734092035
also the quality going down while price is increasing

>AAA games are now designed by executives in boardrooms with profit-maximization as the top priority
>indie games designed by small, dedicated teams take forever to get released
Good thing I enjoy playing the same old games over and over again

>>734091614
>survival crafting
unfortunately that’s one of my friends favorite genres but even most of those are so bad we don’t play them. I ordered a retro handheld just gonna play some romhacks I guess

>>734091369
Sauce me now senpai

>>734090138
part of the issue is a new game has to snatch playtime from a gamer's current fav game or two. If you're already grinding away in some game you don't tend to stop and jump ship midstream. Least of all for an unknown new game at a full cost price point.

>>734089927
>why isn't anyone buying price hiked woke garbage during a recession
Gee... I wonder

>>734092106
I understand wanting things to stay true to your vision, but I don't understand why Eric Barone won't hire some help for the Haunted Chocolatier game. He just needs a team who is as passionate as he is.

>it's because the price of AAA games went up by $10!
>no, it's because of [culture warrior buzzwords]!
>um actually it's because people aren't making enough of this extremely niche thing i like
You can tell that people here are isolated and cut off from the rest of the world.

>>734092305
What's the actual answer in your mind?

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>PC is outdated
>can't buy new hardware because of AI
>can't run new games because of the ever increasing hardware requirement

I'm still not buying Concord-style garbage even at $40 OP.

>>734092305
It's actually all 3 and then some.

>>734092391
That's easy to fid. Just stop being poor

>>734092305
Actually if you think people won't scoff at a blanket 16% price increase over all of the stuff they like to buy, you're the one out of touch.

>>734090138
What games ?

>>734092508
>16%
you wish. it's more like $75-$80

>>734089927
Why the fuck would they, when they have to pay $60-70 for something shitskin - via muh regional pricing - only pay $10-20 for.
Torrenting is coming back

>>734092385
>>734092439
>>734092508
Have you ever interacted with anyone outside of /v/? People aren't playing traditional games anymore. They're playing live service games and mobile games. Kids no longer ask their parents for a new game for christmas, they ask for robux. Tons of people have one live service game they stick to and play nothing else. Over in asia, mobile games have completely taken over and kicked regular games out of the market. A fucking ten dollar price in the middle of historic inflation has nothing to do with any of this, the actual spending is up, not down. What's actually down is the number of people playing regular games instead of live service games.

>>734092391
Anyone who still has a 10 year old PC just because it can play lol and overwtch etc and suddenly now they care about new games and have not saved up money in those 10 years to buy a new one deserves this.
I got a new PC after like 8 years. 1 year before the AI shitstorm.
I think i am fine for the next 7 years.

>>734092484
>people should just stop being poor at scale lol
>this makes sense to me, the brownoid

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>>734090138
>seeing this post puts you into that hyper enthusiast bucket
>the actions of you and your immediate cohort likely do not match those of the general gaming audience
We won, my fellow gooners. We won.

eh I got one of those retro chinkhelds with the 100gb rom rip and it just works for like $40

>>734089927
>create the free to play GaaS model. where the most hardcore can get everything for free and the rest can pay to win.
>Surprised when the old model doesn't work anymore.
And then there are the retards who actually sell games at 70+tip and still wanna bleed the players with GaaS model shit. No wonder this industry is going to hell. Soon the AAAA industry will crash with no survivors and everything will be Free to Play Gaas.

>>734092391
only game I would upgrade my PC for is subnautica 2. there is nothing worthwhile on the market

You guys gotten into any other hobbies?

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Because hobbies FUCKING SUCK NOW

>spend $70 for a 10 hour game
>want to buy a figure
>that will be 10k¥ to ship by boat
Literally better to just read spend 10-20 dollars on a book or go to your library for free fuck capitalism

>>734089927
I buy games, just not $70 shovelware.

I have over 10000 old games on my pc right now. Why would I ever pay for new stuff?

>>734092954
I watch the telly with my bros on a shared VM. does that count?

Stop being poor

Start being jewish

>>734092982
Figures are luxury goods.
Honestly the only reason I buy them is because most of the time the official translation is garbage and I want to support things I like without supporting parasites who give substandard product.
Games are supposed to be cost efficient though, modern ones are not.

>>734092610
That is not true, regional pricing is 90% of the time no lower than 50% of American prices. So yeah we are paying half when we make 5-10x less. Cry me a river.

>>734092954
What the anime poster said

>>734092982

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>>734092954
Tried making music but couldn't make anything good for years, so it's back to vidya and conversing with my fellow intellectuals on /v/.

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>>734090138
NOOOOOOOOOO ENTHUSIASTS DON'T MATTER WE GOTTA SELL TO THE MODERN AUDIENCE NOOOOO

Though I'm sure this has to do more with labeling everyone who has ever breathed in the direction of digital media as a "gamer"

Why would I buy Call of Shitty 200 when I can buy Mewgenics or Isaac and all its DLCS for less?

>>734092954
Drawing and making my own games, it's much more fulfilling. Video games have turned into what I do as a little break between actual hobbies

>>734093185
>we make 5-10x less
The median wage is $1,200 a week in burgerland. Do thirdies really only make $120 a week?

>>734089927
Just make good games.

>>734093286
Why would buying an indie game not count as buying a video game? Why do you think the study would even work like that, totally retarded post

>>734089927
f2p killed videogames. Roblox, Fortnite, League of Legends, FreeFire. The four fucking horsemen of the Apocalypse.

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Be honest with me /v/ are u part of the 4%?

>>734093505
There is barely 1 new game worth buying a season, let alone a month

>>734093345
If they're lucky.

>Spend 70 dollars on a game
>Or spend 70$ to suck a hookers fat tits and get sucked off
Yeah I'm going with the hot piece of ass and tits. Games are too expensive now and hooker tits are too tasty and I like having my dick sucked

Americans steal everything, too bad the switch 2 is unhackable so they can go play lickitung nigger anus if they dont want to pay the $70 for gen 10.

>>734093505
I bought 2 new games last year. I bought one this year already, but it was unexpected and cost only $9.

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>>734093345
Yes

>>734089927
>US gamers
>mutt pic
Pottery

>>734093505
Yup, feels good

>>734089927
>train an entire generation to play nothing but Fortnite and Roblox
>be shocked when they only play Fortnite and Roblox

>>734093505
yes, buy at least 12 games a year which is an investment of roughly 600 dollar a year in vidya, it fucking sucks

>>734089927
There's tons of lower budget games that cost $40 or less. But you don't buy them because they don't have a $300 million marketing budget. You want the AAA game that has a $500 million budget, but you don't want to pay for the marketing budget. Buy more medium budget games and the market will respond to that by making more medium budget games. Which will in turn lower costs.

This is why NIntendo is hurt the most by their game price increases. They're the only ones pushing $80 and their games will never go on sale.

>dude, we just keep raising the prices while making the games worse, and we don't understand what the problem is!

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>>734089927
>Try lowering prices to $40
Games already do this on PC, the real problem is that purchasing a game no longer ends with the base price and the amount of non-cosmetic post-MSRP additional purchases has gotten out of hand.
Should also note that people can just play retro games, either pirated or for pennies on the dollar, and extract the same amount of enjoyment out of them, if not more, than they would have with the newest titles coming out these days.

Why do they insist on counting non-game buyers as gamers in the first place?
They're literally not your market. Ignore them. Disregard everything they say.

The only people they should be listening to are neckbeards buying every new game that comes out.

>>734089927
Lowering prices, and actually make better games

>>734091027
unironically, what do they put in that? It's clearly having some nuclear level addiction effect on kids.
What MK ultra shit is going on here?

>>734093590
>average
>not median

a lot of people projecting their personal gripes on the industry but it's fortnite and roblox and liveservice "forever" games taking up everyone's attention.

>>734093818
if you didn't count people who only play live service games then the market would suddenly seem tiny. /v/ doesn't realize that people who like traditional single-player games are a small minority nowadays

>>734092954
I like to read books. Also people who say visual novels are trash are retards.

>>734093505
I bought one game this month. I think the one before that was silksong and the one before that was ttp2 dlc. So no.

>>734093889
No dude trust me everyone wants to play the latest AAA slop, they just can't afford it because the price went up by $10 over the course of 12 years.

>>734093889
Who even plays those games besides literal children?

I don't think there has been a single good American AAA video game released in the last 5 years.

>>734089927
there's enough vidya out there to last mutliple lifetimes now, gaming can rest in peace

>>734089927
Gamers are Over!

>>734092954
Gardening, baking, exercising, modding morrowind.

>>734093978
it's gone up like 30 dollars over a course of 12 years, and there are a lot of games I would impulse buy if they were priced in more of a reasonable bracket. Just like I impulse bought Expedition 33.

>>734092954
Niche, old indie/small-publisher comics and obscure foreign animation
It's a fucking goldmine

>>734093978
This. When roblox, mobile games and F2P games are way better now why bother paying full price for any games?

>>734094086
The overwhelming majority of people playing video games are playing live service games.

>>734093921
They ARE a small minority!
That's how it's always been!
If you're a game dev, target the ten million actual hardcore gamers and ignore everyone else!

That means hot chicks, lolis, hard games, good gameplay loops, short dev cycles, and cutting out the culture war and censorship bullshit.

Publishers have got to stop targeting 100 million sales targets. That's absurd. Target a comfy one million sales, or even 100k. Make a good game FOR ME AND PEOPLE LIKE ME.

>>734089927
>Hey guys, Us gamer amiright?
Kill yourself

>>734094192
right, because they're "free". No one's dropping $80 upfront for something that might not even be fun, and is going to be half of that in a year.

>>734090718
This is the problem. Retards acting like the price is the problem are incredibly stupid.

>>734094264
>every game is $80!
most games are not $80, only new AAA games are $80.

>>734094316
Wow, it's like we're talking explicitly about new AAA games.

>>734094287
You dumb mongrel. Price is a definitely factor. Why do you think FREE games grew so quickly?

>>734092292
Herding a team of people is soul-crushing and not worth it if you just love building stuff and have enough money at the bank.

>>734093505
Newest game I bought was that Wukong game because it finally went on sale, but honestly my PC probably can't even run it.

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>>734093889
>taking up everyone's attention
Among other things. There's only so much time in the day for leisure.

>>734094357
The study that this thread is about did not specify "new AAA games".

>>734094316
Only Nintendo games are $80 and they're at the forefront of pushing game prices. Everyone else quietly backed off on $80 once they realize how hard it is to get people to buy their games at that price.

>>734094446
the study isn't about Silk Song, is it?

>>734094445
Millenials are the last generation to care about gaming. The future of gaming is just roblox.

>>734094475
What? Are you illiterate or something what the fuck?

>>734092659
This. Traditional console games are a dying breed.

>70 dollar vydia
>Tons of old franchises murdered or raped beyond recognition
>Everything takes to fucking long to develop
>Sometimes its shit when it actually comes out
>Small devs got priced out
>Portables don't exist anymore so there's no way to make some cheap stuff
>Even indies are getting stale
Gaming had a good run, but seeing what its become, it needs to die.

>>734089927
fuck the economy copers, it doesnt matter, bread and circus will always be appealing
the issue is the circus now isnt appealing at all, on top of being quite a bit more expensive than it used to be
theyre asking you to pay premium for pure dogshit

ive barely played or pirated anything in years, i used to spend a lot and pirate even more, both are dead in the water now, the games are just shit and, even worse, entirely unappealing

How many games came out in 2025 that were worth playing? 1 or 2?

Why bother gaming when you can just scroll tiktok?
That's what /v/ does, just endlessly repost things from twitter instead of playing video games. Video games takes time and effort to play, it's just easier to gamble or scroll social media.

>>734089927

>Devs start making low effort formulaic garbage based on statistics and trends instead of taking risks and making stuff with actual identities
>Turn activism to 100 and forego all subtlety and subtext
>Generic topics, generic characters, generic questing, generic looking world built of generic realistic assets and indistinguishable from other games
>Raise prices to 70
>Tell players they should get used to not owning their games and that the future is online services
>Cut costs by replacing humans with AI to ensure everything is even more derivative

Gee, i wonder what could it be...

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>>734089927
this doesn't surprise me in the slightest

>>734094828
or just watch someone on twitch play it
i'm almost surprised gaming isn't dying harder and faster than it is

>>734090138
>only 4% of US video game players buy a new game more often than
Well no shit? There is usually only one big release per month if that

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i play my classic backlog over and over again.
not even touching modern AAA shit which have a jeet stench on it.

>>734092702
>poor and racist
The irony

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>>734093505
i PLAY a new game every month, as in i pirate them. When it comes to buying, usually its 3 - 5 in a year. I usually only buy denuvo games on sale, and i will add a few other cheap games to my cart alongside that, but thats pretty much it for the year.
I wonder if the people in OP's pic accounted for piracy.

>>734089927
>Try lowering prices to $40 and watch the results
try lowering prices to 14$ and watch the results

The amount of people in this thread complaining that the latest ass creed or whatever wasn't good is grim. When did this board get infested with so many casuals? /v/ should go back to being more gatekeepy and bully normalfags who are super concerned about the quality of the latest cawadooty.

>real games are becoming a hobby again
Thank GOD

>>734090138
>chuddha at 30%
based

>>734093247
>I'm sure this has to do more with labeling everyone who has ever breathed in the direction of digital media as a "gamer"
this. the market is infinitesimal compared to what the kikes would like you to believe
>>734093590
>brazil below india
lol. lmao even

>>734095129
no they're not lol

>>734094445
>a greater sense of social interactivity
>gambling, AI bots, and pornography
...what?

>>734092954
learning jap. it's going poorly. at least got my n2 after a gorillion years

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>>734092954
I would like to get into gunpla or lego, but i live with my parents so i can't. It would be too embarrassing.
And i can't live on my own because its way too expensive in canada.

>>734089927
American gamers converted to Chuddhism

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China won

>There are people posting itt who still live with their parents
oy vey

>>734095326
You mean in shitting out soulless garbage? yeah they won in being awful.

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>>734092954
Binge watching drama shows. Way cheaper than games too.

>>734093505
last year the only new games I bought were monster hunter wilds and silksong. I bought sandland for 20 dollars at a walmart when a friend told me about it, SMTIV apocalypse new in package for my slime 3ds new in box. Oh shit wait I bought a switch 2 DK bananza, air riders and pokemon ZA. Oh no.

>play Chink and Gook gacha games
>tons of cute characters
>huge updates every ~6 weeks for FREE
>easily thousands of hours of content, again, for free
>actually optimized, easily runs at 120 fps with zero stutter or issues
>gameplay is serviceable; not as good as the best Japanese games but certainly better than AAA movie games
>no woke propaganda being shoved in my face

Or

>play AAA western slop
>$70 + early access tip + DLC that was intentionally cut from the release
>10 hours of content
>dogshit optimization on UE5
>gameplay is essentially holding forward while doing the occasional QTE
>every female character is either ugly, brown, a girlboss, or all three
>is made by a group of activists who literally hate me for being a normal heterosexual male

I mean it seems an obvious choice to me which one I'm going to play.

>>734094026
Alot of adults play live service slop
>>734095435
Idk man, the webm seems pretty soulful

>>734095543
Third worlder hands typed this post.

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Another video game market crash would be a good thing

>>734089927
I see 4chan. Most companies could give you a free blowjob from your tiktoker of choice and they still would rather shitpost on /v/ than actually play them.

>>734092954
I want to do more plush toy collecting, but customs are expensive and I'm cramming the rest of my bachelor's degree for the time being (last semester).

>>734095670
No, he's right.
Hyper normie games like RDR 2, witcher 3, etc don't have better gameplay than Genshin. I would say that they are about on par with each other.
Which is why normies are ok with playing gacha slop

>>734095649
>the webm seems pretty soulful
I don't like weaboo trash
Nor do i like souls likes
So they're making nothing important

>>734095783
Asian normalfags are playing gacha slop, western normalfags are playing fortnite and call of duty.

>>734094026
Adults with jobs.

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kids play the same 5 live service games because why wouldn't they? modern major games take so long to develop there will be one single title across an entire kid's youth, you can't build a brand

>Game 1 releases
>the sequel, Game 2, releases 8+ years later

>>734095670
Jewish hands typed this post

>>734093505
I buy maybe a couple games on sale and a big budget RPG anymore if the reviews are pretty decent, since RPGs are the only good bang for your buck when it comes to the absolute clown AAA industry these days.

>>734090138
I think I might on average buy more than one game per month, but only because I gift friends games on Christmas and their birthdays. There ain't enough games I'd want to buy for myself to reach that bracket. Maybe like one per two months.

3 americans just died in iran. How can we bother buy new games and we can tell we are just gonna get drafted to die in israel's war?

>>734092305
All are correct

>>734093505
>last game bought is Stellar Blade
Hm.... nyo

I spend my money on power tools and pliers instead. Fuck me, I keep getting ripped off.

>>734096028
I'm 30 years old. Pretty sure that's too old to draft. So it's not my problem.

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>>734096028
Not my problem.

>>734096028
>dying for israel
is this the fate of american young man?

>>734096192
Can easily change when they can't find enough people. But everyone here has too many mental illnesses to fight anything. Fucking weak men.

>>734094358
Because they hook in children and adapt their habits before they ever start buying games.

>>734094358
Because they're specifically designed to monopolize all of your time. Also they're generally really dumbed down and simple compared to other games so they're easier to get into.

Unironically, Roblox scares me. They're putting some crack cocaine in that stuff. I seen kids get violent when the mother tries to take the tablet away.
Apparently Epstein was into it...

>>734093590
>average
One CEO that makes a trillion dollars will pull up the average of 100m other people that make 0 dollars to about 10k. Average is fucking retarded for charts like that.

>>734096028
Autism precludes you from the draft.

I have 700 bucks on disposable income per week and the newest game I bought was cities skylines 2 and Warhammer 3 (I almost bought darktide)

>>734096192
Jarvis, pull up the median draftee age in the first few months of the ukraine war.
>beep boop boop
30-35 years old, you say? Very interesting.

>>734092305
I'm sure that you know full well that if you're a normal guy who doesn't follow tranny artists or believe that videogames need to be inclusive and who wants to focus-target games at the predominantly male customer base, you're not getting hired into a position of authority in this industry. You're just a liar.
>muh wider audience
If this were anything but an excuse, the woke project would have been aborted when the comic book industry started imploding over ten years ago.

>>734096072
This. Though people would find the money if they were making things that they wanted. Maybe not $100 (psychologically powerful number), but they'd skip a few takeout meals to buy something on the level of Skyrim or Halo. Entertainment has always thrived during economic downturns, including the great depression.

The industry and its shills don't get to get away with blaming uncontrollable factors so that they don't have to address the blaring problems that they have full control over.

>>734097016
>culture war niggerbabble
didn't read lol

>$40 or $100
While the modern woke slop isn't even worth pirating, LMAO

You dpshjts gave the culture to people that didn’t care same thing you did with music

You fuckd it all up giving games to people that don’t play it


You’re stupid

>>734089927
Why does he have the shoulders of a woman?

wtf did they do to zoomers bodies? Gross satansts gave men womens bodies

>>734095243
Parasocial relationships with e-whores

>>734094358
Price doesn't matter as much as making something that people want to play. The unintended consequence of flooding the market with live service games was you have to make a really good game or stay on target for years in the red to scrape together a community because the average person playing these games does want to be on the ground floor but they get spooked easily if they see the words "layoff" or "EoS" when they could just stick with what they currently invest time and money into.

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I want games that make my dick hard. Simple as. And I'm tired of all the bullshit devs do to make their game as unsexy as possible just to placate the puritan assholes and get their game sold.

>>734097612
>puritans
Jealous insecure women.

Half of the women who demand the removal of sexy female characters are absolute whores. Sometimes literally.

>>734090138
this is the fruits of the “gamers don’t have to be your audience” leftist shitheads

nobody is buying anything because all of it sucks

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>>734089927
>OP: 17.21
>pic: 17.04
Just /v/ things

>>734097186
And to this day, people are still babbling about not discriminating on the basis of political beliefs. Which is the absolute bottom bar for protecting your culture.

How are you supposed to stop them from taking over if you won't even tell them "no"?

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all we want is a game worth buying fooor

>>734089927
> aren't buying video games
Yes, they buy RE Remake 11, FF 15 Remake 7 and similar interactive movies.

>>734097103
East Asia is doing great.

It's only people who listen to you who are imploding.

>>734097972
whats funny is that they think gaas shit like marathon would sell anything beyond f2p

>>734098176
It's the F2P weekend right now and it's performance is mediocre at best.

Keeping in mind that they have the Bungie name.

>itt: broke third worlders
You're the reason gaming is dying

>>734093505
I only bought two new releases last year, one of them was the remaster of my GotY 2015 Xenoblade X which I already knew I would love, the other was Metroid Prime 4 which was a massive fucking disappointment.

>>734095243
I wanted to jest but from the scraping I usually see from kemono, some of them literally have dedicated discords and DMs for the higher paypigs and people also are devolving from watching e-girls on twitch to straight up paying for fansly exclusive streams where they just sit and moan into a mic. People were posting that it was refreshing to see some sports footage without LIVE GAMBLING ODDS taking their screen during the winter olympics as well.

Games I have purchased and were made in the 2020s at full price
>Elden Ring
>Nioh 3
>STALKER 2 (bad choice, never buying a game from them again)
>Starfield (bad decision, TES VI will be bad so I will not buy it at full price)
>BG3 (Early Access, I won't buy a game before it's made again)

5 games in 5 years. Almost everything I play was released in the 00s or 10s. I bet I'm in the vast majority.

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>>734098405
What's the matter goy? Not enjoying neo Weimar?

>>734092659
You clearly don't kbow what youre talking about. Kids aren't playing roblox either. They're just not playing vidya period. Kids are doing other things these days, vidya is transitioning to a boomer hobby

>>734095907
>tfw back in the PS2 era you'd get an entire trilogy of games in just a few years

>>734089927
>Try lowering prices
It's really that simple. Games like Silksong and Mewgenics are significantly cheaper than AAA while providing better experiences.

>>734089927
>4% is responsible for 50% of the sales
I'm not suggesting that western AAA isn't in big trouble, but I'll bet that if you look at any large industry, the distribution is similar.

For every one person who plays golf every day, there are twenty people who play once per year
For every person who's watched every major sci-fi movie and read every book and is scraping the bottom of the d-list, there are twenty people who've only seen Star Wars and Star Trek
For every person who needs to buy 2-3 new sets of running shoes every year, there are twenty people who buy a new pair every two years.
etc.

Much of that 4% isn't buying western AAA slop.

what fucking games
theres been one released in like 4 months

>>734093868
Turns out lua is powerful and the ROBLOX corpo continues improving their “game engine” beyond what was possible there 20-10 years ago. Kids can make games with AAA gameplay on that fucking platform and it’s free and available everywhere. It’s actually insane.

>>734093505
>draw a nazi
>call it a commie
The overton window at work

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>>734098919
It's a whale economy.

>>734092659
>Kids no longer ask their parents for a new game for christmas
What game are they supposed to ask for?

>>734090138
just remember indie games sold better on the wii u than playstation and xbox combined. average "gamer" doesnt play video games.

>>734099446
I wonder when everyone will just admit that the 90s were a golden era and humanity will never top it.

>>734098794
eh at least I'm not a paypig, only slightly bothered when the scraper gets broken for months but makes me think way less of the entire scene around artfags

>>734089927
Westies jsut can't make good games

>>734099804
>black crime wave; peak of gang culture
>undercurrent of modern problems; woke taking root in universities, problem women being pushed to HR instead of fired because of the CRA
>goods cheaper than now but still not as cheap as in the past; build quality starting to get cheap
>videogames, music, and pro wrestling were in an optimistic place, rest was meh
>didn't take a lot of pride in decorating our cities
The 90s were great, but we can do better if men take back the pants.

>>734093818
Why would they listen to anyone who already buys everything they shit out? They are clearly not discerning.

There's nothing that can be done about it. They manipulated all sorts of circumstances they funneled the masses into a circumstance that ultimately doesn't benefit them long term. People who are playing games are long entrenched into their GAAS(s) of choice and see almost no reason to go out of their comfort zones and thus money is being burned trying to make the next thing.

>>734095243
they mention onlyfans and "creator pornography" specifically, apparently people really get into that thin veneer of personalization
https://metro.co.uk/2026/02/19/video-games-struggling-compete-tiktok-gambling-even-porn-26999854/
>since 2019, spending on video game software in the US has risen by $12.9 billion, but the country’s spending on OnlyFans content, online betting, and iCasinos has collectively risen by $31.6 billion

>>734092954
Got more into cooking since I started prepping meals for the wage cage. A professor and couple buds from back in college started a local mountain biking group thing, been looking into joining them.

>>734100350
It's absolutely baffling how much normalfags love throwing their money away on gambling.

>>734100541
Because they have no hope of making money the "right" way. Everyone is looking for shortcuts since working hard isn't the way to get rich anymore.

>>734100541
i'm just glad I don't have whatever personality trait draws someone to it in the first place.
Without knowing the history there's probably very good reasons it was made illegal all over the place back in the day and it's probably back to quietly devastating segments of society now that they're loosening restrictions but that's how it goes.

>>734100541
I legit feel like an alien sometimes, they keep throwing money (most don't have or can't afford to lose) at whatever is shining in front of them.

>>734090138
I probably buy 3 or 4 games a year. 3 on MASSIVE discount like Crash was sold for 4 bucks last year. This year, I got RE9 but I had a giftcard so this tracks for me.

>>734100118
Samefag here, I also forgot to mention that the term "political correctness" was invented in the 90s for a reason.

Again, we shouldn't aim to get back to the 90s. We should learn from the mistakes of the 20th century and aim to make the 2040s absolutely amazing.

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>>734089927
The market was fueled by millennials, and we're starting to bow out of buying new games. Zoomers and Alphas either can't afford the hardware, and even the games sometimes, or the new games are pure dogshit compared to what they already have. They need to lower the prices, and in order to do that they need to trim down the development team size and fire all the unnecessary bureaucracy that's infested the industry.

A studio department responsible for the development of a single video game should not exceed dunbar's number.

>>734100118
>>734100951
You pesky little samefag! Pesky!

>>734090138
It's hard to even imagine twelve games I'd want to buy right now.

it’s very simple. kids are out of the gaming market. talk to any kid and max they play is roblox for a while, 98% of the time they are melting their brains on tiktok or livestreams, actively playing a game is too much for them nowadays, especially if it’s something complex and not pumped by the algorithm.

>>734098164
>gacha "games"
LOL

>>734090138
>per month
circana is a fucking joke

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>>734098869
>LMAO stop thinking old good new bad, games are better than ever!
>PS1 had three great mainline final fantasies
>PS2 had two
>PS3 had two ehhh mainline final fantasies
>PS4 had one shit mainline final fantasy
>PS5 is now on track to have one shit mainline final fantasy
And that's just one series I liked. Surely it's just nostalgia that I like old games more.

>>734095907
>>734101775
>but...the brands
LMAO

>>734092305
>$10
there are been multiple price increases in recent years. games were £50 for some time (~2016), and even that was too much. they're now releasing at £70+, and some publishers want to increase that to £100.

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>>734089927
>Burgers are now poorer than yuropoors
What a weird timeline

>>734102408
I have never bought a game for £50, let alone £70+. I think games would have to return to being £30 brand new before I consider buying them again.

What’s the I buy a bunch of shit every 6 months on Steam sales and maybe 2-3 games full price a year on launch

>>734097967
>this is the fruits of the “gamers don’t have to be your audience” leftist shitheads
Yeah or you know instead of your political brainwashing diatribe it's because the economy is shit for everyone in the bottom 90%

>>734104380
>i-it's just the economy
People weren't buying this shit when the economy was better

>>734091614
Hard this

>>734089927
>Try lowering prices to $40 and watch the results
Why don't you just stop being poor?

>>734092954
Yeah, I've moved onto other hobbies since 2017/18
>Tabletop RPGs
Started playing old rpgs, like CoC, CP2020 and OSR, which is my main type of game now.
>Music
I listen to music a fuckton now, almost all Heavy Metal and derivatives.
>AI
I play around with it in local.
Nothing much, but it's pretty fun since it's uncensored.
>Books
I also started reading often, but mostly really old stuff, with some exceptions.
>Movies
I've become a giant movie enjoyer. The /hor/ thread on /tv/ ruined me for good.
I completely ignore TV series, I already watched all the old ones that I liked or had any interest.
>Comics
I read only European Comics and Manga, with the latter winding down after reading a fuckton of them in my youth.
Other than that, I study Japanese when I have nothing to do and.
I do still play vidya, but only emulated games, recompilations, visual novels, some porn games and the rare indie game that inspire me, like Dwarf Fortress, Stardew Valley, Cry of Fear, Factorio and so on.
If I had more money, I'd build a homelab and enter the self-hosting rabbithole.
>>734092998
I have about 1600 on Steam and more than 600 on GOG, not counting the pirated games...

>>734093505
At this point I almost exclusively wait for sales before I buy anything. I may buy multiple games during a sale and not buy anything else for several months.

>>734089927
don't care about price
id I cared about new games id pirate them
I'm playing the classica.

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>my old games will run on my hardware i already own
>my backlog is untouched
>I keep getting games for free from epic or GOG
>pirate retro games I never got to play when I was younger
>most games now are indie demos that should have stayed in their college dev phase or AAA wokeshit slop
>slowly growing out of F2P
>can count how many times i bought a game near release on one hand
I'm just old now

>>734090138
>big AAA releases take longer and longer and longer to come out
>people are buying games less and less and less
Imagine if there weren't the occasional indie firework to pulse the heart on occasion between giant releases.

>>734100826
In the absence of thought, feeling is all they have, and they'll do anything to feel more.

Elections have consequences

>>734108331
Video game pricing went up during Biden's term

>>734089927
>games have been consistently getting worse with less features, gamemodes, interactivity, visually, and especially performance wise where computer upgrades are becoming ludicrously expensive
>while increasing the price and draconian levels of control via drm, kernal level malware, getting your money stolen for saying nono words
>while calling you a crybaby, entitled loser for having high expectations from an industry that puts out products that cost hundreds of millions of dollars for some reason and as a whole makes more in revenue than tv/movies/books combined
>while taking 10 years to make and leveraging a studios existence on one or two games
>meanwhile, many competent enough indies put out games that offer 10s to 100s of hours of entertainment for 10-15 dollarydoos that can run well on anything that has power connected to it with the caveat that a lot of them never escape early access hell or just die
and it really doesnt end there. I dont buy anything knowingly that uses unreal engine because it and tim are such an unending cancer on the industry. I dont buy GaaS shit, i dont buy gacha, i dont buy games that run like shit, i dont buy games that are 90% dlc. I could never buy a video game again and through emulation/piracy of anything before 2020, i would have more GOOD games to play than i ever would have the time for. why should i even pretend to be excited for more shitslop garbage designed to try and milk me for as much money as possible with the feature of it not even being a fun money sink

>>734108494
And it's spiking even more under the current administration in addition to cost of living in general.

>>734108642
Inherited economy

>>734095165
Dumbass those people are just exclusively playing F2P dogshit like Roblox or Fortnite, they're not part of your epic boycott

>>734089927
Games suck so much now that most days of the week I would rather just study biology and fucking calculus. That’s more fun than playing utter shit.
>but muh indies
Are all gay and have no QA testing and the few that don’t have either of these problems are still 1/10th the scope of an actual video game made by a real company.

raise prices to $70, they'll pay them -Tim Sweeny
>game sales drop
NOOOOO YOU WILL DO WHAT I SAY RAISE THE PRICE TO $80 -Tim Sweeny
>game sales drop even further
imagine listening to that troglodyte retard Tim Sweeny

>>734098829
lol retard

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>>734089927
I'm buy just as many games as I did 10 years ago
Probably 2 or 3 times as many!

>>734089927
4chan is the worst place to talk about this because so few people here buy games to begin with.

>>734108760
you will never be gaben

>>734108331
Inflation was caused by money printing to pay for Covid lockdowns.
If you are vaccinated you have no right to complain about the price of anything.

>>734091614

same - i dropped upwards of 5k on a gaming rig a year ago - i just only buy like 5 games per year due to everything being a reskin

>>734095326
i boughted her

>>734089927
Because they aren't cool anymore. Late genz and gen alpha don't give a fuck about video games and think they are boomer medium. Games today resemble Hollywood, cheap, derivative, lame, with no testosterone or edge.

>>734110490
lol

What if, instead of making bloated 70$ sluggish unfun story focused "propaganda experiences", you made fun games

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>>734089927
>>734090138
Lower the price and remove the pozzed shit too.
Not paying $80 for a 4 hour game with 16 hours of cutscenes where all the bitches are ugly as sin and voiced by ugly vocal fry whores from Cali, that holds my hand the whole time with constant hints, thrusts allies in the final boss fight that do % health damage and has a Souls/MonHun/DMC wannabe soundtrack + game loop that fails at it.

>>734110535
Could you stop being a racist for like 2 seconds

>>734110870
That's antisemitic of you

>>734110490
So where do they get that edge teenagers crave these days? Even being gay is mainstream now

>>734110921
they just kill each other irl now

>>734110921
Doom scrolling social media sites.

>>734089927
>>734090138
>make garbage woke shit games
>$70 + tip
>why won't anyone buy our anti white, faggot filled wokeshit games that are also terrible?

>>734089927
>Games now cost 70 bucks.
>Suprise Pikachu when gamers pay less.

>>734111020
>muh go woke go broke
Except all the big name brand shit that continues to sell despite doing that?
nuPokemon's 10th gen already has their loyal fanboy consoomer subhumans BREATHLESS and jizzing in their axe-wound discharged panties, despite looking like ugly pozzed low effort shit once again.

>>734111095
like dragonage?

>>734089927
try making good games and watch the results

>>734111095
Most of the big brands are crumbling.
Because they no longer appeal to their target audience.

The wokoid effort to come up with explanations that are anything and everything but that are just pathetic.

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>>734111176
>like muh one example while ignoring the dozens of success for woketrash
Yes?
Retard?
>>734111284
Except the ones that are too big to fail and are selling record numbers for the first time in decades, but go off retardGOD. Just two more weeks for total wokeoid collapse! If I keep repeating it then it'll happen!
In reality the only way this gets fixed is if consoomers had :) happen to them

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>>734093505
The only game I bought in 2025 was Silksong. Even then, I got it at 20% off.

So, no.

I hope the industry crashes.

>good games sell
i don't see the problem here

>>734089927
And that's a good thing!

>>734098358
It's more the investors expecting that an expansion into turd world markets was going to bring the same kind of revenue as selling games to humans if only they manage to find the right marketing tricks to fleece shitskins out of money they don't even have. Their profit projections were based on pure wishful thinking.

If the industry were putting out a classic every month, people would find the $70/month in their budgets. They'd go pick up the tacos instead of having them delivered. It would be a priority.
If your live service game is appealing, most people will take a break from their main to go check it out. There are successful new live service games popping up all the time.

People with BlueSky accounts are trying to overemphasize other factors so that they don't have to acknowledge that THEY are the ones responsible for destroying the industry.

>people are tired of western AAA woke propaganda slop
>in other news, f2p and gacha titles are earning more money than ever

>>734111681
like highguard and concord and spiderman miles morals and assassin's creed shadows?

>>734112057
>like the 4 games we point to over the last 10 years whose employees got re-hired by the main branch anyway
Yeah dude totes mcgotes, total collapse soon!

>>734111681
>Pokemon has monkey-faced girlbosses and antiwhite propaganda
You're really reaching.

The body type A/B thing is a little annoying, and we should aim to completely purge our culture of the farce that is critical theory, but it's not a deal breaker for most people, since you see it once and then never again.

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>>734092391
>>PC is outdated
Ps5 hardware is on RX 6700 XT level. Almost all games will target the Ps5, so if you have midrange hardware from 2021, you will be able to play anything this generation. And Ps6 won't come soon.

>>734089927
>Try lowering prices
cool it with the antisemitism

I thought US gamers were rich what happened

>>734092982
Why do you even pay for digital shit? I refuse to pay for stuff that I can't touch. Yes, buy figures or some shit, but please don't pay for DIGITAL games.

>>734112205
you are the gayest and most retarded tranny, faggot.
suicide squad
forspoken
redfall
saints row
marvel's avengers
immortals of aveum
you are a gay dickless retard

>>734112391
>make woke shit
>why won't chuds play our woke shit
the NBA literally got rid of writing on the courts that said "black lives matter" because we stopped watching basketball over it

I don't want to pay 80 dollars to get lectured by Californians. They can't lose their jobs fast enough.

>>734112496
>Literal WHO games
except saints row

>>734111095
Retard.

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>>734092273
>>why isn't anyone buying price hiked woke garbage during a recession
>Gee... I wonder
What games are even woke? Nigger, name at least 3. I refuse to believe you chuds. Just because Celeste had a cute subtile story, doesn't mean it's "le woke" you fucking in the closet faggot, grow up.

>>734110921
Watching Mr. Beast videos and scrolling TikTok.

>>734089927
They're buying games and not buying (((games))).

>>734091614
Yep

>>734112567
suicide squad was the sequel to the arkham series

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>>734089927
I still somewhere around 2003 on my list, lots of good shit to go through. And given that old vidya come from closed up shops I probably won't spend a dime on any of them

>>734089927
I've gotten more value and enjoyment out of a nearly $400 keyboard I bought a couple years ago than I have out of any modern game, and I still haven't bought any above $60.

>>734104380
that's some straight up horseshit anon, you were probably too young to remember the wall street crash in 2008 but there was virtually no effect on video game purchases because games were actually still good at the time. Games today fucking suck ass and all favour a long term live service model instead of shorter term, passion driven projects that didnt insult their target audience in an attempt to make the most money.

>>734112251
It's the fact that the characters are all androgynous except for the FOTM safe horny shit
>>734112496
>abloobloobloo whataboutwhataboutwhatabout
Take it up with Ninty making another $4 billion off of what was previously a dying series, but go off retardKING.

>>734089927
Even when I was younger I was consooming launch games constantly through Gamefly's massive discount incentives.
These days as I've shifted to PC I'm patient enough to wait for discounts, and even then major publishers manage maybe 1-2 games per year that I'm interested in.

>>734112794
>>734113176

Let’s see
>no games worth buying
>if a game comes out and it’s worth it it’s either single player and why would I pay full price for that? I’ll get it on discount later
>if it’s a multiplayer game it’s likely free to play live service slop and why would I spend money on that if it has a limited life span? The whales can pay for my copy
>the economy is in shambles so I’m not blowing what little I have on game

>>734112798
dragonage
highguard
concord
spiderman miles morals
assassin's creed shadows?
suicide squad
forspoken
redfall
saints row
marvel's avengers
immortals of aveum
>>734113176
you got proven wrong you gay, dickless retard

>>734113347
>muh proven wrong because I ignored all your points
Mmmmm, nope. Not how it works.
Try again retardGOD

>>734110921
You can watch gore videos on tiktok, why do you need computer generated ones that look lame?