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.
All the most played games are the types of games that people can play pretty endlessly. That's their entire purpose, to be a single focus game for a person. Sometimes its until the next version releases (sports, COD) or just that one single game forever (mobas, BR, TF2, CS).
I play mostly single player games. Often times well after their release to keep my frugal nature satisfied. At the point I'm playing most things won't even crack top 1000 on the chart. That's not a problem with either of those categories, its just the nature of social focused gaming versus purpose focused. And unfortunately social focused games have the issue of "play now or never get to play."
Like, I don't disagree its trash. But its also basically an entire different industry to a point where most of those people don't play anything else outside it either. Most of the black guys I know buy consoles just to play the same NBA/NFL games each year, and then use it for movies for the other 11 months. We have no crossover and they have basically minimal effect on JRPGs and that industry (or whatever your personal is).