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).
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).