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[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 70 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Funny how that happens when people don't have any money.

[–] callouscomic@lemmy.zip 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And when so much of gaming is shit.

[–] MJKee9@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Honestly, this has been a great year for games. The past 5 years have been pretty great.

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[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 249 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (26 children)

Looks at:

  1. AAA games costing 100€+ between base game and season pass.

  2. Online services on consoles constantly raising prices.

  3. Consoles that, over the time cost more instead of less.

  4. Wages frozen in time for years.

  5. Rest of unrelated to videogames stuff but that drain people's wages.

I WONDER WHY YOUNG PEOPLE SPEND LESS IN VIDEOGAMES...

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 96 points 4 days ago (11 children)

Also competition, and I'm not actually talking about indie games, although that's helping. Competition with older games. Why in the world would someone pay $80 for a mediocre new game when they could replay a classic hit that they haven't played in few years? When was the last time you played the witcher 3, or the mass effect trilogy? Would you rather replay one of those, or pay $80 for the new assassin's creed?

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 63 points 4 days ago (4 children)

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.

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 day ago

And even today's potato PCs can run old AAA titles just fine.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

I don’t need the 7th iteration of the same game dressed up with new graphics for the price they're charging.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 34 points 3 days ago (4 children)

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.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 points 16 hours ago

I got shadow of mordor on a huge discount and it still barely felt worth it.

[–] ksigley@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

I lost my last nerve with Gearbox when I had to figure out how to remove ads in a Borderlands game. No way they're going to subject me to an ad for a game I would have otherwise bought.

[–] vxx@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Don't forget about microtransactions, they might be a significant portion of the decline.

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[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 47 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I love the constant onslaught of articles that are like “people aren’t spending money anymore!!!” Open your damn eyes. We all got smart and refuse to pay $80 (which is now the new forced norm for “AAA” garbage) and are replaying oldies and indies. Hell, I revamped my 3DS and have dumped a ton of games onto it. I can even play some of them online with people again via Pretendo.

Like all of the reasons are so obvious why people aren’t dumping money into this industry anymore. Capitalists fucked it all up and put profit over fun. We’re not all dipshits that fall for the constant micro transactions and grifts.

I legit don’t give a single shit about any of the new “AAA” games coming out. Give me a call when they’re in the bargain bin years from now.

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[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] poke@sh.itjust.works 32 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The hobby is getting more expensive while income left over after cost of living is going down. This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 days ago

They're charging more money for lower quality games. Glad less people are buying.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 48 points 4 days ago (1 children)

~~Video games~~ spending by young Americans is dropping

FTFY

[–] seejur@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago

Who would have thought that if you squeeze out every single penny out of 99% of Americans to pocket them, 99% of Americans would have no penny left to spend?

Some American billionaire probably

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 36 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)

We can't justify the price. The end. That's it.

I was super interested in the Dune game, then they decided to not participate in the stream sale. Okay. Too bad. Life goes on. Get fucked, greedy devs.

[–] Don_alForno@feddit.org 41 points 4 days ago

greedy devs

Publishers, mostly.

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[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I guess it's the over 25s buying all those Switch 2s then?

[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

youtubers and twitch streamers who spent the past 6 months complaining about how games shouldn't be that expensive

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[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 81 points 4 days ago (6 children)

I'm sure it has nothing to do with shitty half baked $70 games

[–] AmazingAwesomator@lemmy.world 35 points 4 days ago (1 children)

and the microtransactions inside them. and the underwhelming day 1 dlc.

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 59 points 4 days ago (23 children)

Games are getting more expensive. Console prices are going nuts; the Playstation 2 launched at $299 USD.

Wages have been stagnant longer than I've been alive. More and more people are struggling to make ends meet let alone buy luxuries like video games, particularly the young because of our kleptogeriocracy.

Younger folks often use video games as a hangout spot, because young folks hanging out together in public is a felony now. So they play the same few games for tens of thousands of hours. Minecraft, Roblox, Fortnite, I think the crowd that spend their adolescences in Garrysmod are in the attrition phase. You've already got a copy of these games, why buy another?

A lot of studios are being closed because business major's gonna business. Fuck brand recognition or loyalty, fuck development talent, fuck community building, fuck long-term strategy, we can realize a gain right now by sowing half the planet with salt, so that's what we're going to do. So what is there for people to buy?

That noise you heard last week was Xbox's death rattle. One out of the three mainstream home console platforms is an outright stupid idea to buy now.

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[–] Pendorilan@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Games are 70 and 80 dollars now. Young people can't afford them. I can't either, but I would refuse to pay that price regardless, anyway.

[–] Flickerby@lemmy.zip 27 points 4 days ago (1 children)

When new games are approaching $100 and you know you can wait a month or two for it to drop $40 it's an easy decision

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 17 points 4 days ago (3 children)

60-80 for the base half-finished game plus 30+ for DLC, console extras

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[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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 grapevine 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.

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 40 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Somewhere out there is an article by someone who walked around a games conference and came away from the experience horrified that so much of the content he was seeing was from small indie studios who weren’t in a position to hire wastes of oxygen like himself, and was furiously nail-biting about what this would do to the state of the industry.

Related news is the authors of Dave the Diver having to explain that they are in no way an independent studio, and they do not deserve the award they just received for “best independent blah blah,” because “indie” has at this point simply become completely synonymous with “original and good.”

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[–] Onyxonblack@lemmy.zip 34 points 4 days ago (13 children)

I'm just done with Capitalism in general. I got 1000 games, 200 of which are GOG offline installers. Those are burned onto M-Disc storage for the apocalypse. Cancelled all TV streaming, no buying games or books even. Nothing but food and bills now as I wait for it all to collapse.

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[–] mrodri89@lemmy.zip 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Depression has me not so interested in playing games anymore. Reading instead. Gaming is losing its magic for me. I’m 36.

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[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 24 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Every game or movie that comes out now is a reboot/remake. Why would I buy that? I already bought that.

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[–] derin@lemmy.beru.co 2 points 2 days ago

That's because most of them are playing F2P video games on their mobile devices.

[–] r3g3n3x@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 12 points 4 days ago

I said in another thread but I've been unemployed for a while now. Even jobs I'm referred to my old coworkers aren't giving me interviews. If capital wants me to spend money, they have to pay me money first. Until then, fuck them.

[–] Taco2112@lemmy.world 29 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I’m pushing 40 so I’m not young but I’ve actually been buying more games lately thanks to being patient and not rushing out to buy AAA games along with switching from console to PC, gotta love Steam sales. I just bought two games I’ve been wanting to play for $30.

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[–] Rakonat@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Charging 70 dollars USD for barely 40 USD of content and everyone knows. The only people I know intent on buying all the latest stuff are people into steamer culture, aka trying to be a streamer or interact with them and follow their trends.

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[–] Donebrach@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Mayhaps the former young Americans are now aging into, uh… being not young Americans? Mayhaps said former young Americans also don’t have children because this entire county’s culture is all about feeding all the money to 1%ers yacht purchases?

I honestly don’t trust any “adult” who’s my age that doesn’t play viddy games, like what are you into for entertainment? A lamp?

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