Corrected headline: gambling programs masquerading as video games didn’t make as much money as we expected.
You can take any industry and instantly boost revenue by introducing gambling or porn. Safeguarding your industry against these practices is a moral imperative.
Good. Between loot boxes and gacha, I've never been more excited to see my beloved hobby die.
The last time video games died, it rose from the ashes like a phoenix and we got 20 years of some of the best entertainment in human history. I'd be happy to see two years of darkness if it meant an NES-style renaissance afterward. Not like we'd exactly be losing anything by missing out on two years of snowclones and exploitative, cynical cash grabs.
There are still new games without microtransactions, DRM or woke cancer.
Reward developpers that don't put woke shit and microtransactions into the game when you can afford to.
Sail the seas to test the waters first.
There's also good old games by the truckload and no need for an expensive computer for those.
Along that line, fuck Blizzard forcing you to use their shitty client for older games. They somehow managed to make old games like Starcraft ridiculously more needy that the CD version. It should run smoothly on a potato. It dosen't. I ended-up mounting an image of the CD.
I don't mean if they release with DLC. I mean if they complete the game and then later release DLC. I feel like expansions are OK. Horse armor type DLC is annoying.
Hell even if it was 20+ years of darkness, or all videogames died literally tomorrow, there's still at least 45+ years of videogames to go through.
Like no person in their entire lifetime could play them all, even if they devoted 24 hours a day playing them. So honestly I'm all for it letting it burn down again.
Shit I have enough games owned on Steam that the backlog would last the rest of my life at normal gameplay pace*. Deciding what to play actually stresses me out because my brain wants to optimize what I play, but it's impossible to do so.
It's really not that many. Strategy games. Games that I actually like I tend to put a few hundred hours in over several months. I hope that I can play video games for 30 more years. 100 games seems like enough. I have more than that.
Now, I wouldn't enjoy my gaming time as much if I never bought another game -- I'd end up having to play stuff I like less. But I wouldn't run out (unless I end up living longer than expected. Anyways, it's close)
If you are the type to play things like competitive games for thousands of hours, you'd need even fewer games.
Doubt the hobby will die in its entirety. There will never be another crash because there's just too many "fans" who buy any old crap again and again.
Look at preorder. While I do not agree with what he always said Totalbiscuit coined house biscuit - we do not preorder and I wholeheartedly agree. I only ever preorder the next expansion of FF(which I was gonna play anyways 100%), I haven't preordered any game in years otherwise.
Look at gacha, it's one of the worst things that just keeps being pushed to the point where people pay thousands to roll for their waifus.i have yet to see any sense in playing gacha. I tried azur lane for a bit, never paid and felt beyond underwhelmed by the genre. Its just boring and people pay for this?!
Look at loot boxes like fifa ultimate team where they STILL rake in the big bucks.
I doubt another crash is gonna happen, all the consumers are their worst enemy with no advocate for change in the media(worse, they want to make games even shittier).
It’s also viewed as a bit of a “correction” by Newzoo seeing as 2020 and 2021 were massive years due to the Coronavirus pandemic, as well as the lockdowns which greatly increased demand in the market.
When it comes to the biggest losers for the gaming industry, mobile leads losses with a drop of 6.4% and console gaming is right behind them with a drop of 4.2%. Interestingly, PC gaming did not share this fate and actually increased revenue, albeit very slightly with a gain of 0.5%.
If it was truly corrective, then why didn't PC face the same correction. In fact, PC gaming went up not down. Could it be because the quality of PC gaming is much higher than Mobile and Console?
Well the old stereotype is lots of new console and mobile gamers popped up over the lockdown madness. Whilst PC gamers didn't even have to change their habits.
The other explanation is the PC master race clearly have superior intellect, and thus are probably better positioned financially to still spend on luxuries even as the recession closes in.
It's an 18% decrease, reflecting the actual overall inflation rate pretty well. People give up on the mobile gaming loot boxes when their eggs go up by 50%.
This is the most likely answer. I said something similar a friend this past week, luxuries and liberalism go out the window when it's cold and you need to eat.
Corrected headline: gambling programs masquerading as video games didn’t make as much money as we expected.
You can take any industry and instantly boost revenue by introducing gambling or porn. Safeguarding your industry against these practices is a moral imperative.
Good. Between loot boxes and gacha, I've never been more excited to see my beloved hobby die.
The last time video games died, it rose from the ashes like a phoenix and we got 20 years of some of the best entertainment in human history. I'd be happy to see two years of darkness if it meant an NES-style renaissance afterward. Not like we'd exactly be losing anything by missing out on two years of snowclones and exploitative, cynical cash grabs.
There are still new games without microtransactions, DRM or woke cancer.
Reward developpers that don't put woke shit and microtransactions into the game when you can afford to.
Sail the seas to test the waters first.
There's also good old games by the truckload and no need for an expensive computer for those.
Along that line, fuck Blizzard forcing you to use their shitty client for older games. They somehow managed to make old games like Starcraft ridiculously more needy that the CD version. It should run smoothly on a potato. It dosen't. I ended-up mounting an image of the CD.
If a dev releases only a game and DLC, do I still have to be mad at them?
Yes.
Release a complete game.
I don't mean if they release with DLC. I mean if they complete the game and then later release DLC. I feel like expansions are OK. Horse armor type DLC is annoying.
Hell even if it was 20+ years of darkness, or all videogames died literally tomorrow, there's still at least 45+ years of videogames to go through.
Like no person in their entire lifetime could play them all, even if they devoted 24 hours a day playing them. So honestly I'm all for it letting it burn down again.
Shit I have enough games owned on Steam that the backlog would last the rest of my life at normal gameplay pace*. Deciding what to play actually stresses me out because my brain wants to optimize what I play, but it's impossible to do so.
Now, I wouldn't enjoy my gaming time as much if I never bought another game -- I'd end up having to play stuff I like less. But I wouldn't run out (unless I end up living longer than expected. Anyways, it's close)
If you are the type to play things like competitive games for thousands of hours, you'd need even fewer games.
Doubt the hobby will die in its entirety. There will never be another crash because there's just too many "fans" who buy any old crap again and again.
Look at preorder. While I do not agree with what he always said Totalbiscuit coined house biscuit - we do not preorder and I wholeheartedly agree. I only ever preorder the next expansion of FF(which I was gonna play anyways 100%), I haven't preordered any game in years otherwise.
Look at gacha, it's one of the worst things that just keeps being pushed to the point where people pay thousands to roll for their waifus.i have yet to see any sense in playing gacha. I tried azur lane for a bit, never paid and felt beyond underwhelmed by the genre. Its just boring and people pay for this?!
Look at loot boxes like fifa ultimate team where they STILL rake in the big bucks.
I doubt another crash is gonna happen, all the consumers are their worst enemy with no advocate for change in the media(worse, they want to make games even shittier).
Hahaha what copium from them.
If it was truly corrective, then why didn't PC face the same correction. In fact, PC gaming went up not down. Could it be because the quality of PC gaming is much higher than Mobile and Console?
Well the old stereotype is lots of new console and mobile gamers popped up over the lockdown madness. Whilst PC gamers didn't even have to change their habits.
The other explanation is the PC master race clearly have superior intellect, and thus are probably better positioned financially to still spend on luxuries even as the recession closes in.
More than I expected. Gamers rising up for once?
It's an 18% decrease, reflecting the actual overall inflation rate pretty well. People give up on the mobile gaming loot boxes when their eggs go up by 50%.
This is the most likely answer. I said something similar a friend this past week, luxuries and liberalism go out the window when it's cold and you need to eat.
"Bad news!"
"Wot?"
"Gaming revenues! They've dropped $8 billion!"
"Oh no! Anyway"