https://store.steampowered.com/charts/mostplayed/
Looking at the most played list on steam is depressing battle royale shit, moba shit, Team Fortress 2 ( almost certainly filled with bots and fake player counts ). I sort of get GTA V because modded private servers but that must be a nightmare to deal with because of how cancerous rockstar studos are these days. I'm going to try and get myself into Terraria after a million years since I bought it because that's singleplayer and offline and doesn't run like shit.
I mean for fuck's sake, even though it's objective trash there are still people clearly downloading and playing Battlefield 2042 of all things. I would sooner watch paint dry than deal with any of this crap that the normies are playing and I can see why all of you retreat to the safe space that is classic gaming but even for me I feel like there's only so many times I can play a game over and over. The games that frequently make their way to the top of the charts are constantly reported on having major technical problems with them and it's mind boggling to me that people will make themselves play that.
We don't have to settle for this.
Oddly, I know a few zoomers who still play TF2. I find it a little strange, but then I got bored of it very quickly years ago. Same with Counter Strike. DOTA also doesn't surprise me. A few friends of mine still regularly play Heroes of the Storm, which is... whatever.
Dead by Daylight makes some sense, in that there's not a lot of decent games that play into slasher horror themes of that sort. Stardew Valley also makes sense, given how it's a semi-engaging half-casual game. Civilization has a long standing following. Rust is... a weird animal that doesn't surprise me but I don't pretend to understand.
And yes sadly, Call of Duty might never die like it should have years ago.
Tldr, normies have shitty taste and as the word implies, make up a good portion of the population. What else is new?