There is definitely something to blitzing through a new title alongside all of your buddies. It's a shared cultural event effectively, and one of the few avenues left in society where you can have that as we trudge ever further into atomized isolation.
I can't really begrudge people wanting to feel some sort of connection with others through a shared activity that's part of the wider fabric of society. The alternative is to be alone and that simply isn't healthy.
Most of what's on the market isn't good quality, but it's harder to get everyone to gather around some game that's twenty years old and turn it into a cultural phenomenon retroactively.
There is definitely something to blitzing through a new title alongside all of your buddies. It's a shared cultural event effectively, and one of the few avenues left in society where you can have that as we trudge ever further into atomized isolation.
I can't really begrudge people wanting to feel some sort of connection with others through a shared activity that's part of the wider fabric of society. The alternative is to be alone and that simply isn't healthy.
Most of what's on the market isn't good quality, but it's harder to get everyone to gather around some game that's twenty years old and turn it into a cultural phenomenon retroactively.