I know there will be some more organic titles like Helldivers 2 getting popular and of course the much loved Deep Rock Galactic. I wonder though if we're going to see more and more co-op based stuff being pushed as devs seem completely uninterested in trying to solve the issues of multiplayer games if they can't retain control of the playerbase. The co-op genre by itself I don't have a problem with, I'm just not that interested in it.
Seems that the next logical conclusion for these bastards is to start making a push for catering to casuals and console players a lot more and pump out boring online only co-op scenarios that aren't remotely challenging and then proceed to spam microtransactions in peoples' faces. My reasoning for this is that it gives players something 'new' to try and they don't even have to worry about all of the problematic stuff like balance or hacking that often comes with more competitive based titles.
This makes sense to me, but it's so damn cringe because it's the safe and easy option and bores me to death. More and more it's becoming clear that AAA studios are simply not interested in catering to gamers who want to be challenged because it's too much of a challenge for them to make something good.
TLDR: Smol pp AAA studios are pussying out of the overall gaming market to cater to normie console peasants by trying to normalise co-op gaming and avoid all other genres.
co-op looks to be successful. Once they see that they are going to run it in to the ground.
Aren't they already doing that with most games? Games get easier and easier. I was recently playing Dark Envoy and the hard mode was easier then I would expected normal to be. It also had 3 easier difficulty levels.
If you are a soy drinking diversity hire who has been told that any negative experience is genocide then you get the modern gaming where the difficulty of finishing a game is boredom.
Even the easiest level is too hard for game journalists, which is why they keep getting easier. They want a push to win button so they spend an hour writing about how racist and sexist the game is and spend the other 39 hours of their workweek watching tranny porn.