>>734150338
same things that's causing 4chan to die

no one is here anymore

>>734150338
>buying fewer games
I buy fewer games because they are lesser games

Retard zoomers only play fortshit and robshit and have gamepass

>>734150472
Not according to the 10th porn-bait thread I filtered today. Unless it the same person again and again

>posted it again award

>>734150338
I'm not playing shit in general

The market is offering nothing truly appealing

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>>734150338
>make thing worse and more expensive
>people stop buying thing

WHOA

>>734150580
>Unless it the same person again and again
It literally is

>>734150338
Companies don't want you buying things, they want you to pay endlessly for streaming services.

>>734150338
everything's too expensive and nothing is worth the high prices

I haven't played games in a decade.

its because the market was massively inflated by covid and they thought that was sustainable

>>734150580
>>734150737
All of these posts (including this one) are me.

>>734150338
Anyone else always thinking this looks like he's watching a live-feed of his wife cucking him?

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>>734150737
>only one person on 4chan is horny

us gamers. am i right?

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The age of men is over

>base game is 80+30 seasons pass+ 4x20 dlc+ sub to play online on console+ lootbox
>Old games don't disappear anymore,it's not like the 90s when the number of cartridges and CDs was limited. Now you can download thousands of games for free in minutes
>AAA need 8-9 years to get a sequel
>AAA are 15 hours long movie game walking simulator
>must compete with streaming platforms like Netflix and social networks like Brainrot+, video game streaming, IRL etc... on Twitch to gain time and attention

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>>734150338
/v/'s answer:
>games today are too woke! we must find a final solution to the woke game question.
the real answer:
>corporations are in the midst of transitioning from games being relatively cheap and available to all potential players to a model where only the extremely wealthy will be able to afford the gaming rigs required to play the games that are designed with an affluent audience in mind

They're moving from a wide base such that anyone can afford a game, counting scale to lead to high overall profits to an ivory tower model that few can afford but those that can afford it pay astronomical amounts of money to do so. Essentially, instead of a business model trying to sell 100 people a $1 game, gaming companies will try to sell a $100 game to one person instead. Save your old systems my friends, RAM prices are merely the warning bell of what is to come.

Traditional games all over are dying out and being replaced by freemium games.

>>734151292
explains why everything is shit now

>>734150338
All of the best games have already been made

>>734151379
So we're going to relive the glory days of 90s PC gaming. Nice.

>Society pushes against and removes whimsy or joy from the world
>Wtf why does no one participate in the joy and whimsy devices anymore
????

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>>734150338
I dunno, bots?

>>734151379
doubt it.

People keep saying it's because games are shit now, but it's actually the opposite. The most shit games, GaaS/Gachas/etc. are what make up a majority of spending now. People don't buy new games, because they'd rather buy fortnite bucks or whatever.

>>734150338
For the past months I have been mostly playing Genshin Impact, God of War Ragnarok (PS plus) and Armored Core 6 (boughted it last year).

>>734150338
games bad

>>734151624
Wanna see something more grim? It's a twitter repost.
https://x.com/RinoTheBouncer/status/2028122636237070727

>>734151379
Thats retarded, the rich people are buying endless mtx in Fortnite.

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>>734150338
>have access to 30 years of video games at home
>the old ones are better than anything they've been making
>still they want me to buy more

>>734152014
All of /v/ is a Twitter repost.

>>734152025
and guess what, those are the only people that devs are interested in catering to anymore.

>>734150737
It really is and it upsets bots when you call it out. This is why poster count was removed. The sharty hack made it blatant with hard evidence and 'people' will still deny it like they do Epstein

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>>734150338
Gee, I dunno. No way TO know, really. Could be ANYTHING.

>>734151875
Fortnite is better than most modern games since the skins are based directly on what people ask for in survey. Fortnite is still shit with awful support, but it is better than most modern games and will last longer than a year

>>734152059
They also think they're with 70 no 80 dollars now lmao.

>>734150338
I actually think social media is the main cause of this. You can get dopamine hits why faster and more consistently on social media than you can from a videogame and it takes less brainpower too.

>>734150338
Funny how they switched to $70 games and people stopped buying games

>>734150338
No videogame is worth $80+tip. It's really that simple. The videogame market is absolutely FLOODED with $5-20 games, and THOUSANDS of FREE retro games that are all BETTER than the new $80 ones. Why would ANYONE buy new games? Just play the old ones for a year and the $80 ones will be $40 or less, which is what they are actually worth.

>>734151292
>Make games be about baby killing troon advocacy for eggless hags
>Where did every other demographic go???

>>734150338
Most new games are shit, especially AAA.

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>>734151473
>All of the best games have already been made

No, I still believe Dragons Crown will get a sequel and Dragons Dogma 2 will turn things around with a Bitterblack 2.0 DLC

2 more weeks.
Plan status: Trusted and Verified.

>>734150338

it s a fake study that counts females on match 3 mobile as us gamers

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>>734150338
>What could be causing this?
RAM prices affecting consoles and PC.

Game prices increase to $70-80

>>734152926
This. Also the games release in more and more bugged up state with unfinished content so there's no reason to wait for the definitive edition that will have a 50€ pricetag in a year after release.

>>734150338
zoomers aren't buying games they're only playing Fortnite, Roblox and Genshin. They're actually spending more money but on MTX and not actual game purchases.

>>734150810
seriously, why aren't we discussing this, instead the thread has a bunch of dumb ass gay comments instead.

>>734150338
Being brown

>>734151292
>can us men
if this crybaby faggot quit playing normieslop he wouldn't have this issue

>>734151473
I'd argue 99% of the best stuff has already been made for video games, movies, music, novels, etc. There's only so much you can do with those mediums.

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>>734151292
>skim through this article
>they were including grandmas playing candy cush saga as gamers

>>734150338
I got really into model kits and kinda switched my hobbies, I'll only pick up something if it really interest me.

>>734150338
Free games are more appealing to the modern audience now.

>>734150338
Did they try making good games?

Last game I bought was Mewgenics. Why buy an $80 AAA game when I can buy an indie title for $30 and play it for hundreds of hours.

>I CANT FUCKING AFFORD RENT AND GROCERIES!!!!

>>734151585
Joy and whimsy are jewish lies

It's soulless.

>>734150338
$70-$90 games are too expensive, and never even close to worth it.

>game prices go up $10 this gen
>"US gamersa ren't buying video games anymore"
They are, just not new ones, for obvious reasons.

>>734150338
Games taking 15 years to develop

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>>734150338
90% of new AAA games aren't anywhere near worth the $70+ asking price, most weren't even worth $60 years before the increase. The booming popularity of cheap AA and indie games the last few years attests that tons of people will still buy new things if they're good and priced reasonably. Nobody wants to overpay for a game that they're only being charged a premium for because the studio/publisher behind it is bloated to all hell with hundreds of worthless employees on payroll.

>>734150338
Normies were never actually into video games. It was a just a several different individual fads that just so happened to involve video games. PS3 was normies first DVD player, Halo, sports games, Call of Duty, GTA, Wii, Switch, pokemon, and some others. Wait aren't these all just video games? No! Each of these was a self contained niche that involved a specific franchise, technology or cultural moment that managed to briefly capture a portion of the normie market. And now normies are over pretty much all of them. Nothing has come along that has managed to speak to normies anymore. So the industry, that is now designed to cater to the normie market, is dead. Those 4% of gamers are THE gamers, always have been, always will be. But everyone else is over it.

enshittification

I don't like playing multiplayer because it's full of normies and thirdies who only use the game to abuse people and get their ego high instead of having fun

>>734150338
New games are all woke goyslop.
Real chXs are just replaying all the good games from the 90s

>>734150338
for years they went wokies, and now it's time to go brokies

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Dirtbags

>>734150338
>Inflation
Nobody has money anymore
>Shit job market
Nobody has money anymore
>Piracy
Nobody need to buy games
>Live ops game
It encourage people to stay in 1 game, and spend only for that 1 game.
>Shitty game
Game is so shit that people would rather go back playing old games than playing new shits.

>>734150338
i can barely afford food anymore since trumps tarrifs made everything so expensive

>>734150338
Piracy

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>>734150338
But that's not true. I love buying retro games. I've amassed quite a nice physical collection too. I just don't want to buy bad modern games that I'm not the target audience for anyway.

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>>734167239
It’s grim even on Steam the average user only plays 4 games a year

>>734150338
I'm not paying for denuvo infected scams
I'm not paying for a scam console that has no games and remotely bricks itself.
I'm not paying for grainy pixelated UE5 slop.

make better products.

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>>734167429
And that's something else. My retro consoles aren't connected to the internet so my total game time isn't being tracked. I played Brave Fencer Musashi for 6 hours today. I'm always playing games but they wouldn't know that.

>>734151292
Why is it always cat ears?

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It’ll self correct in time

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>>734157717
They have always done that. Nothing has changed in the last 15 years of this mobile gaming bullshit. The only difference is Men who are getting the program and just locking in. There is no point in wasting energy in reacting. Steam can see the real stats, gaming is fine.

>>734150338
too many neets

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THE GAMES ARE SHIT
THATS HOW I FEEL
I WON'T BUY YOUR POZZED TRASH
THAT'S HOW I'M REAL
ROMS AND ISOS
THAT'S WHAT I DEAL
MY HARD DRIVE WAS EMPTY
THAT'S WHY I STEAL

>>734150338
Disinfo campaign, surely. The consumer has no reason to refuse videogames as they are, right?