What's going to take it's place when the gaming industry crashes?
>>522575468>crashesdo you have any idea how much money they're making from loot boxes, subscriptions and kids using their parents credit card to buy new outfits in fortnite? they don't care
>>522575468If GTA VI gets delayed one more time, that crash will be inevitable. If it gets released, every sales record will be fucking annihilated within 48 hours or less. Gaming isn't in the red zone yet but it's do or die and it all depends on Rockstar
>>522575468I'm just gonna keep pirating everything. if they want my money they should stop being shit companies.
Whaddyahmean? I just picked up these two games the other day!
>>522575644You gotta start supporting the industry.
>>522575468They need to stop making games like they're Hollywood blockbusters. It doesn't work.
>>522575468I buy all games
>>522575468Fewer (woke western made) video games? Or video games in general?
>>522575468The only old games I play are saved on an HDD. Should I care?
AAAs were openly called unsustainable by shill factories like PC Gaymer in 2013The question should be: why it's crashing so slowly
>>522575655>key card
>>522575468Indie games and retro gamesThe problem is companies pricing (shit) games for 70 or 80 and they are arguing it should be 100Most zoomers can't afford this so they'd rather buy something for 15
>>522575468you only need 10-20 games to last you the rest of your life. Why buy new ones every year
>>522575468> 2 MILLION REMASTERS> GRAN TURISMO 7 99% OF SINGLE PLAYER LOCKED OUT UNLESS YOU GO ONLINE> GAMES PRICES DOUBLED> GAMES RELEASED IN BETA STAGE AND PATCHED FOR MONTHS TO COME> FORCING PEOPLE INTO DIGITAL MEDIA> POLITICALLY CORRECT AND WOKE GAMESIt's a real mystery why retro gaming is becoming more popular while modern gaming is declining.
>>522575664I did, and they took advantage of that. I'm old enough to remember that I can go to the store, buy a video game, come home, play it without any extra bullshit, and because I own a physical copy, theirs no servers to shut down or file to suddenly take off the game store. I'll buy from indie devs cause they make good shit for the sake of good shit, AAA studios and corpos can eat my ass.
>>522575664>You gotta start supporting the industry.If the industry depends on my support it should die.Make shit games, make no money.Simple.
>>522575468News Flash! Shit gets expensive people stop buying shit.
>>522575644Based fellow piratechad.We're unironically eating GOOD these days, thanks to emulation and custom firmware. I have an original PS3 with custom firmware that can play basically any PS3/PS2/PS1 game I want. Never been happier.>>522575848Funny you mention Gran Turismo 7. I've been going back to the old Gran Turismo games lately, and you can really tell how little they care about single player anymore. GT4 has the BEST single player career out of any GT game; you can still be playing through it years later due to the sheer amount of shit to do.Modern games don't add in that kind of single player because they'd rather make you pay multiple times (DLC, etc.) for the same amount of content.
>>522575655Did you get that hello kitty game from walshart? I barely missed that deal.
>>522575780It was $15. It will be the first and only game keycard I'll get. >>522575862Too subjective.>>522575852Too many indies are shit and are deluged with tranny nonsense. >>522576001>Did you get that hello kitty game from walshart?Yes. Only got it because of my nigga Cinnamoroll.
>have a backlog of anime, manga, and vidya games to chew through.>no job, so no disposable income >plenty of "service" games that are free or close to it with regular content updates.Many such cases.
>>522575468Games are getting too expensive, the market is already oversaturated, and new games also compete with old games. I could buy a new 90+ euro game that's unfinished and full of bugs, or a 10 year old game for 20 euro's that was incredibly loved back then and would entertain me for another 1000+ hours
>>522575981Real, imagine paying $30 to play a shitty mobile port of Monster Rancher 2 on Steam when you could be a based chad and download a PS1 emulator and play the game in it's original and unruined state for free. Same with any port on Steam that changes the game for the worse, and all you have to do is just tell the corpos to go suck a wet fart.
>11 days until TGA
>>522576049I don't care about "tranny nonsense", if it's in the game, who cares, if the game's good, I'm good. Sounds like you're too much of a raging pussy snowflake.
>>522575981>Funny you mention Gran Turismo 7. I've been going back to the old Gran Turismo games lately, and you can really tell how little they care about single player anymore. GT4 has the BEST single player career out of any GT game; you can still be playing through it years later due to the sheer amount of shit to do.It's like every other modern developer they started focusing too much on graphics/realism over gameplay with GT5/GT6/GT7.
>>522576262>Sounds like you're too much of a raging pussy snowflake.No. It's just there's too many werido bedroom coders who wanna insert their own delusions onto the unsuspecting general public.
>>522576307GT has always been about simulation.
>>522576335Again, you just sound like raging pussy snowflake.
>>522575468So-called AAA studios will get bought out since their overpriced woke slop isn't selling, like how Tencent just bailed out Ubisoft.
>>522576307GT4 is basically where the franchise peaked. GT5 is a bit of a plateau afterwards, since it at least had some good special events and improvements to endurance racing (like pausing to return later, which is good for the 24h events you can't do in one sitting). The whole standard car racket was a sign that the game's old, fun formula was getting too unwieldy for the devs to handle.Offline, GT6 has fucking nothing in content aside from collecting cars. I won't even play GT7.
>>522576400Fellas: I dont think we can Miku Miku, oo-ee-oo our way out of this one!
>>522576588Hi Miku. :)
>>522575852Na man, you need to have a separate proprietary application to log into for every single game publisher which forces you to install aggressive anti-cheat software which low-key spies on all your shit and gives it to the cia and mossad in exchange for all the USAID funding which is actually what keeps these businesses open instead of actual sales.
>>522576049>Too many indies are shit and are deluged with tranny nonsense.but not ALL of them. Big names are 100% faggots
>>522576652Indeed. I just spent $800 on tickets+lodging for the Miku concert in Chicago on April 12th.
>>522575562Fuck Rockstar. I sincerely hope those DEI steeped faggots crash out.
>>522576862Amen
People are buying games for PC. Just not $70 AAA with retarded storylines and rail shooters. Tons of great indie games on steam. For less than $10. Im playing a retro Helicopter attack game and Schedule I. I will wait years until triple AAA games are like $5 on steam instead of paying thier ridiculous prices. Console normies dont have that option.
>>522575468Men are checking out of society at an alarming rate and they are doing so from all aspects.
>>522575468hegel's dialectic would say Movie industry crashes with gaming and they synthesis into one industry probably booned with ai and vr.
>>522576973Not allowed in our current paradigm.
>>522575468as birthrates continue to crater because of feminism, the only growth will be from porn games and incel shit like HoI
Games are so fucking shit these days I had to reinstall Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 again
>>522577058>because of feminismIt's not feminism. Besides. That goes away easily. If you can make them cum you can make them think anything.
>>522576375The early games were more like arcade games though. I agree GT4 was the peak. GT5/GT6 ran like dogs because they focussed too much on graphics/resolution and pushed PS3 too hard. GTSport/GT7 ran better but the formula that made the earlier games such enjoyable games has been lost and they just compounded it with the online requirement bullshit.
>>522576968this i'll stick to Palworld, Project Zomboid and pirating any other single player games I'm interested in while spending my disposable income elsewhere
Nowhere because the vast majority of those people play gachas or shit like fornite.They're still spending money, just not on new games.
>>522577356My wife just wants to get a cat sidekick in fortnite.
>>522576578I recently dug out GT5/GT6 and had to install about 2 hours of patches for each game, just another reason why modern gaming is so shit. Most modern games won't be playable properly once the servers get shut down.
>>522575468>US Gamers Aren't Buying What We Want Them Toftfy
Expedition 33 is kind of fun. I heard the new digimon is good but I missed the black friday sale.
>>522577232I did buy Stalker 2 on sale. It was around $35 but I dont mind supporting them. They are a small developer making a game as good as any AAA out there.
>>522577450You can't even get certain DLC/patches onto GT5 anymore, so case in point. With the older ones, the disc had everything you needed.It also goes without saying that GT3 and GT4 were exponentially harder (and therefore more rewarding). Worst license tests I've ever had the pleasure of doing kek
Elden Ring was the last AAA game I bought at the release.
>>522576968>People are buying games for PC. Just not $70 AAAYeah that's why they don't port games properly to PC, they don't buy games anyways
>>522575468The only thing I don't regret was paying Gaben 5 jewros for 20 games.
>>522575848>BETAYou mean alpha, stalker 2 got """A-life""" a week ago.
EU5 bitches!
>>522575468>add women to "gamer" category when they only play candy crush mobile slop>huh why aren't people buying games?>hide behind that so nobody notices actual gamers aren't buying AAA DEI slopAll the gamers I know are going through their backlogs, or only buying chink games or simple indie games like megabonk
>>522575664No, I really don't.
>>522575468They were counting retail theft as sales from niggers. Now that it's all digital the nigger is lost.
>>522578487The industry must be suppored for it to continue. Even Stefan Molyneux knows this.
>>522578532Spending is up this year. Economic blackoutfags BTFO.
>>522575664Why would I support an industry that hates me?
>>522578436This. Ive been getting triple AAA games for like 2.99 on Steam.
>>522575468It's only the AAA industry that's crashing. AA and indie studios are in a new golden age right now.
>>522578630Im sure thats just as accurate as the non existant redacted Epstien files.
>>522578586Kys fat fuck
>>522575562Anyone who buys that niggerslop will have a comfy place to face the wall saved
>>522578749Its great because they actually make fun games with good storylines.
>>522578630As put by another anon in another thread:>everything is 50% in price over last year>sales "up" 9.1% based on dollar price>meaning significantly less goods and services were transferred this year
>>522575468Going outside.
people are growing up. it's about time... if you're still playing video games past 18 than you have your priorities fucked up.
>>522576578Man, dont even know which one it was but hanging with some friends playing gt on ps2 was peak. Would tape the controller and leave on the one map for rewards
>>522575468But they told me gamers didn't have to be their audience?
>>522578912go suck an indian cock faggot and watch your niggerball games, i'll keep playing vidya
>>522578763Nick and other low info type pundits accuse trump of saying there are no epstein files, but the actual quote was that there was no epstein client list
>>522576088ThisIt's very difficult to compete with the past.Also wokism plays a part
>>522575981>ps3I miss Battlefield 2 bad company online modes so bad bros
>>522576968Youre right but console games ultimate editions end up being $20 in a few years. Rdr2 (i dont play that faggot shit, but an example). Just want a PC to try kenshi
My guess is a lot of "Gamers" are playing the same few endless games. Shit like Gachas, mobile games, MMOs, LoL and other Games-as-a-service have capitalized the time of a lot of gamers. Combine this with the ever rising cost of living, and a lot of gamers just stick to their endless games and don't buy anything new other than a few indie breakout hits here and there, since those are still doing great.
>>522575468crazy, i wonder why people arent buying games
>>522575468Gamepass They own nothing
>>522575468This is dumb. The model changed. Most games are free.Fortnite, Counter-Strike 2, League of Legends, Dota 2, Valorant, Apex Legends, Roblox, War Thunder, PUBG, Delta Force, Mavel Heroes, Overwatch, the list of popular free games is endless. Nobody is going to pay you 70 dollars for fucking BF6 and COD7 so they can sell you a shitty gay skin and let cheaters roam free, because they are the status hungry losers that spend the most money to stand out.
>>522575468>spend money on jew babysitting Or >organize against the jew HmmmI know what the future needs and it isn't going to happen playing vidya
>>522578675Nobody hates anyone. Stop being a perpetual victim>>522578763Economic blackoutfags BTFO>>522578861Nothing is up 50% except maybe for RAM.>>522578771Cant kms. Too important. Not fat. You dont know anything about me. Order up on this nigga.
>>522575664the last game im ever going to buy was cyberpunk. i bought after the major update and the game is still complete trash. developers game up trying to make good games.
>>522575468War possibly.
The same is happening with other stuff like sports, professional sports, cars, whatever.Basically, there is a really small group of fanatics for this shit (games, cars, sports, etc.) consuming everything related to it while the vast majority of people are outside. Like, imagine 30% of the population owns a jersey (it doesn't matter if it's an old model), 60% watches a game once a month, but only 2% are crazy over it (getting the latest jersey, buying tickets, and so on).
>>522576708>underrated best meme ever>underrated postyou are a good egg anon. copied from a /v/ thread earlier: https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-106262https://www.vice.com/en/article/dhs-to-spend-almost-dollar700000-investigating-radicalization-in-gaming/>microphones installed in ps5 controllers>automated recording of all chats via PSN network >gaming moving towards online connection only and mandatory PSN network subscription to play games you already own.the writing is on the wall, and has been.. if gamer faggots are going to continue to be hype chasing suckers and buy whatever latest fag shit comes out and pay to play games they already own, they get what they deserve.people do not even speak or talk to each other anymore in the chats because they cancel accounts for "hate speech" so easily now.>just say no to online only play and Sony faggotryalso .gov has a lot to do with pic attached>inb4 PC master racewhatever, i have better things to do on my PC than game.
>>522579230Its no different than Gamefly. Its a hedge to play the FotM and to reduce FOMO.
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>>522575468is that the amerimutt kid? or do all american just look like that?
>>522575468Hopefully AAA companies all collapse and are replaced with the few good indies who do not make the same mistakes as the AAA developers.
>>522575468Nothing but workWe will become a communist nation sadly where work will be the only entertainment
>>522575468modern games are trash. I play deus ex on a RTX.
>>522575655lol @ righti knew it.. what do you think of it? got it on sale a ways back..
>>522575468Nothing.Why don't people get this? At some point we have enough entertainment.We can already just play all the old shit and it'll probably last a lifetime even if you only pick the good stuff.
>>522575562Gta 6 is going to require you to dox yourself to play online with age verification.Im just gonna pirate vidya from now on
>>522580581I played the tetris portion and felt it was kind of bare-bones. Its still great but after 99 and Effect there's a lot that's left to be desired.>>522580256I'm more hyped for LP.
>>522579446I played Cyberpunk for like an hour. Made a troon charachter because it was hillarious. Never touched it again. Luckily i only paid $10 for it on sale. Its trash.
>>522575848Also worth mentioning>ingame p2w store>micro transactions ($199+tip)>season pass>retarded moderated chat/getting banned for harmless shit chatting>incentivized social media spamming and twtich view botting(drops)>mandatory to add a phone number to your account as "security" feature, the second you add a number it's sold to jeet scam centers that will call you in under 5minModern gaming is shit.
>>522576061>>have a backlogNever understood this. No reason to buy a game or some other form of entertainment if you can't play it immediately. And if you are trying to take advantage of a sale, what a waste. A discounted game that you never play is just as much of a waste of money as a full price game. If you don't have enough time to play games at a fast enough rate to not have a backlog if you bought multiple, then you certainly can put off buying games until the next sale after you finish the game you're currently playing. And if you can't wait for some reason and have nothing else to do, you might as well just look for a free copy. And if you're against that, instead of spending $600 on a lot of shit you never will use, you might as well just pay $60 for the game you know you'll play.
>>522575468I just pirate everything and I barely ever play a game very long because they all suck so I could never bring myself to pay for this garbage I'll play for 4 hours and drop.
>>522578316>trip 100's almostDo I have to play a Indian country to get such a roll?
>>522580946>>retarded moderated chat/getting banned for harmless shit chattingDoes Rocket League have any sort of penalties for VC banter? I was in a competitive lobby the other day and all I heard was this one bloke throwing out a ton of slurs which made me chuckle.
>>522579146I tried playing Kenshi. Wasnt for me but its a solid game with innovative gameplay.
>>522576588>>522576816I miss Project DivaMiku games were fun
>>522580805Really? They are going to require IDs? LolFuck that.
>>522581082I never played rocket league but got a friends BF6 account locked for 14 days for calling someone a>retarded faggot
>>522581031I buy games on sale like that. I just started playing one I bought last year for like $3. I will wait a decade if necessary.
>>522580817>Its still great but after 99 and Effect there's a lot that's left to be desired.concuri have all maps unlocked on 99, and still playing daily to stack tickets for the next release. have 90 stocked up now. that is 3 maps from the jump if they release new ones.. (and i hope they do)
>>522581082got a month ban then stopped typing in-game. i have a very high ranked account and don't want it getting justed
>>522575664I support good games at good pricepoints.
>>522581179Id's or a face scan for gta online yes.Hell if you try making a new psn account in the uk it asks for age verification now regardless of what date of birth you put in you have a child account unless you verify
>>522575535Steam makes an estimated $50 million per employee. That is fucking insane considering all they are doing is maintaining an internet site and some e-commerce. They don't even have a product.
>>522575468Inceps just go into other hobbies I myself got back into gardening and working on my carsVidyas been shit for a long time even normies hate it
>>522575468why would i give lying child rapists money i only spend money on food jersey mikes and pot cus i have 10/10 chronic painima cut out the jersey mikesseems to be better to just buy a steam deck or whatever is cheap and not nvidia ai spyware and pirate everything
>>522575468Complete bullshit. What a lie.Games industry is enormous and people are still buying shit non-stop. They're just not buying "AAA" wokescold slop anymore and instead of changing their ways, these big publishers pay for articles like this to make up for excuses why they are destroying their entire studio and publisher.Shitlib progs are such fucking sick, demonic scum.Gamergate should have been a hot war.
>>522575981problem is they know we piratethey broke my ps4 1970 pc and 1660 super pc for not upgrading lolif you dont spend money theyll try and force you and if you dont comply theyll ship you off to a jail or psych ward for being non compliantfuck the non omnipotent child raping God of the bible lol
>>522578241that game fucking sucks>endless walking>nothing to see or do>walk 2km to loot some sausage and vodka>8hr game turned into a 75-100hr slopfestnu-stalker fans are mentally ill
>>522575468>What's going to take it's place when the gaming industry crashes?First, they deserve it.Second, Nikke, Umamusume and Gachaslop will be the only things holding the industry from the ashes.
>>522575535This. They’re making more money than ever over microtransactions and gambe-to-win. The market is hardly “crashing.” What has gone the way of the dinosaur is how you used to buy a gaming system for cheap, then drop $40 in the 90’s on one game that is self-contained and complete, no Internet.
>>522575468>fatigue from DEI garbage characters that the core paying demographic didn't ask for nor do they relate to>MVP quality games which aren't actually viable due to limited content/bugs>slow bug fixes and deflection of accountability>DLC / micro transaction piss-taking>unnecessary (((references))) to tribe shit, tribe characters, etc - most of the paying demographics are no longer entertaining their transparent shit>massively overpriced games (despite reduction in distribution costs)>abysmal optimisation requiring incrementally more expensive systemsIf it's not 80-90% discounted, fully playable and tranny/tribe shit free, I'm not buying it.
>>522575468War probably, because this is just a small shadow of the entire economy dying. Once the economy is proven dead then the only option for the faggots (((in charge))) is to force mass death to "stabilize" the (((Economy))).
>>522575794This, so many great titels from 10-20 years ago, recently played Okami, at least a 9/10. I'd even replay Chrono Trigger for the x time instead of buying any of the current slop, maybe Expedition 33 when priced at 30 or lower
>>522575785some n64 games were $70 on release. adjusted for inflation they would be $140
>>522581160I bought a L-TEK DDR mat to get my music game fix. I have to remind myself I'm not in my twenties anymore and set my expectations low until I can manage to pass 8s and higher. >>522581187Yep that was very much said. >>522581321I need to play more of 99. Fortnite has gotten most of my time on my Switch 2.>>522581382I agree. Stay safe!>>522581890Just calm down and dont have BDS (Breakroom Derrangement Syndrome).
Decreasing White birthrate means less little Timmy’s to buy games. Minorities are too busy fighting and having sex and learning to be men to play video games.
>>522575535They won't be able to during 2026 because 27 countries other than the UK, and even the US with the KOS Act will suddenly make gambling and loot boxes entirely illegal for minors, with age verification. Even if there's a sharp increase in kids figuring out how to use VPNs, it's going to see a gargantuan sink in profits.
>>522582160Indeed. When I got Pokémon Snap it was nearly $80. It's one thing I appreciated about PS1 games that they were cheaper and had more content than N64 games. >>522575785Consumers have been spoiled with $60 price points that hadn't moved in 2 decades.
>>522575468All games nowadays are pozzed bullshit. I want to wage a HOLY WAR against the satanic faggot race mixing forces of christ.
>>522575468Streaming will take over. Games can't be owned anyway so the next logical step would be to ditch the console entirely and to charge people for every game that was ever made.
>>522575468>people dont want to pay a subscription to rent a game any longer>they want to go back to the old days where they could just buy a game and play it forever>why dont they want to just rent games?>we need our corporate cash flow
>>522575664I don't support industry or business in general any more than I have to, and there's lots of free vidya to play.
>>522575468Just work
>>522575468>Just get into cloud streaming with GeForce NOW and rent the games via Microsoft Game PassBoth are also failing by the way. I wonder what owning nothing and being happy looks like.
>>5225823792 decades? Nigger consoles and games have been getting more and more expensive for the last 2 decades dont lie.
Fucking pozzed games nowadays are complete fucking shit, why can't they make pic related with updated graphics and enhanced multiplayer. I want to LARP as a crusader
>>522575468Farmville made more money than almost every boxed videogame ever made.This headline is like saying kids don't put 25c into arcade cabinets any more.
>>522575468I just buy games I know I'll put several hundred hours in. The last game I bought was Dying Light 2. Playing DL: The Beast rn which I got for free due to an early purchase of the ultimate edition. Once I get bored with that I'll just play one of the many other games I have. No replayability, no buy. Also fuck your micro transactions.Shrimple as.
>>522575664I don't buy games with niggers or faggots or a message in them
>>522582851>look at me guyes I'm playing the autism game from 1998 aren't I special and based now>guys?>guyes...?
>>522582911>Farmville made more money than almost every boxed videogame ever made.Indeed. Can anyone here send me a life in Candy Crush?>This headline is like saying kids don't put 25c into arcade cabinets any more.To be fair its all card-based outside of some touristy spots.
>>522582851If you're going to play a christian game you might as well play Diablo 2, at least that has hot women and magic. Two things christians aren't even allowed to have around them. lol
>>522582974Indeed. Just you and falling blocks is all you need.
>>522578316>Paradox Interactive: Welcome to DLC piece meal hellHard Pass. They advertise what's in a DLC as part of the main game and then add additional pay walls. Never again.
>>522582998>the autism gameThat's not Bubsy 3-D. I wonder how Ulillillia took the news of the upcoming Bubsy collection?
>>522580114>It's no different than owning nothing. It's a hedge to partake in trends because new thing.No shit. Hard pass.
>videogames have been liquid shit since the 7th gen>only propped up by the influx of normalfag retards occupying nerd hobbies after social media broke down all the gates keeping them out>durr why aren't nerds buying them anymore hurr
>>522582571>Investor's demand ROI.>Can't evaluate games for thematic creativity, and mechanics. >Latch on to sportsball and Movie Franchise IP's because reliable forecasting models for revenue>venture capitalist executives cross polinate across the meduim from EA, Ubisoft, and other dogshit>Microstransactions >Movie IP's>Widest Audience possible influences game design>target market influnces game design decisions>bring in cultural advisors to maximize audience reach>venture capital entertainment execs bring their 'advertising first' hype machine from the movie industry to sell a dogshit productOnce you understand that nepo babies with venture capital are using it as a spring board for their movie career everything becomes clear. Imagine trying to write a book around the design decisions of 'this must be a best seller'.Unfortunately sports ball franchises are infecting the space so these people have 'industry expertise'.
>>522575468i dont want industrial entertainment anymore. tired of churn and burn. tired of neat things being abandoned out of spite to maximize profit.i want cute and cool homemade things by people who care about them and are willing to hand them off to the fanbase to take care of when they get tired.i want culture.
>>522583209My audience demands it. I cant just play tetris (though I wish I could).
i'm just not gonna purchase the product LMAO
>>522575664>support someone who hates meno thanks
>>522583279>my audienceI see. Being cancer metastasized does have downsides, I suppose.
>>522583034amenhttps://tetr.io/^not a bad free online version cool music and backgrounds
>>522575468Oh no. I haven't bought a new AAA game in years because theyre all disappointing trash.God of war? Norse gods are black and a dei company ruined it.Spider man? 2nd one was ruined by dei company not buying the first.Alan wake 2? Dei company forced them to sideline Alan wake in his own fucking game for some token nog no one cared about. Not buying it.At least smaller devs sometimes do fun things.
>>522575468>The wagies have run out of moneyYeah no shit nobody is buying anything. I’ve been pirating games for 3 years now because I got tired of being burned.
>>522575468The devices aren't even water cooled and the games have bad mechanics.For example, the land is a mesuem or the double jump ability makes you stuck mid air.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=826O9YGrGCgDissidia Duodecim is the best one.
>>522583221Oh, and coincidently this is probably a good reason why 'gamers are racist' became a meme in 2012. Venture capital failures in the Video Game space.Rather then own their critical failures they bought some propaganda pieces to hide their incompetence in the space.Probably the biggest tell was the game Alien Isolation. I'd say that was the end of Video Game Review's as a part of the culture. The Veture Capital was now going to influence the ratings with their evaluations. It was probably the most insulting moment in the industry ever. I don't think there is a parallel for movies or books. I don't know, trying to think of a movie... I think this maybe played out in the movie industry in the 80's. The term cult classic was ascribed to movies that were panned by reviewers but loved by audiences. So I suppose there is a slight parallel. I think what was so striking was how little Games Journalists respected the medium and their audience.
>>522575562Delusional
>games like GTA and Skyrim are huge and gamers come back to them all the time>games like Fortnite are services and function akin to hobbies>gamers spend time on mobile games >perpetual growth doesn't work with video games>a lot of sequels are trash and don't sell on brand alone>piracy
>>522581564>They don't even have a product.>Portal >Portal 2>Half Life >Half Life 2>steam deckAre all not products? You are retarded
>>522585392>Are all not products?no. they are vanity projects they do once a decade
>>522583594I played this vs a guy whom Im guessing had no clue how to play. I felt really fucking bad as it wasn't even competitive. I think he didnt even have a controller as I was using a DualSense controller. >>522583587It comes with being an independent digital content creator, vtuber, and interactive video game streamer. >>522583574Nobody who wants your money hates you.
>>522585494You can't miss them if they didn't go away
>>522575468the troons and activists will be fired and/or put in their place.
>>522575468The gaming industry has been fucked fir at least a decade. Major studios release unfinished slop games and make customers pay for dlc, its all shit. Look at nintendo, once a flagship game company now a creatively bankrupt soulless corporation focused on scamming consumers with overpriced junk and suppressing game preservationists. Itd never been more over. Indie games are the future.
>>522586125Sometimes things have to die to make room for something new.
>>522583798That is how I am now. I still game, I just don't play AAA. Why would I play a AAA game where they made my favorite childhood protagonists gay.
>>522579002No, Trump said it was ALL a democrat hoax.
>>522581564Just shows how terrible all other game/app stores are.Microsoft with all its billions can't make an online store that people want to use for Windows software.
>>522575468i don't even know what games i owned let alone buying more
>>522586243Yeah, I'm pretty sure that CEO's in the space operate on inertia, and that they keep a cultural critique on payroll so they can blame their audience if the sales don't pan out.
>>522581564>They don't even have a product.They just announced 2 additional products on top of their Deck and Index.
>>522586352the Wii Store and Steam were successful because you actually owned your games once you bought it. Microsoft store is just a subscription service.
>>522575468AAA titles have gotten worse and push political points down your throat and cost more than ever. I game all the time but all I really buy are mid sized studio games on Steam or the occasional good indie game made by 1-2 devs. Weird how affordable video games can be when you don't have to pay 25 karens in HR, a marketing department, etc. and instead rely on the uniqueness/quality/fun of your game to make it gain popularity and sell.
>>522575468Gaming isn't going anywhere, triplegay might die but who cares about that?
>>522586927Not necessarily. There's a difference between Gamepass and the MS Store.
>>522575468AAA studios are infested with blue hairs who can't actually make games, just alter them. So they keep repackaging the same pozzed slop and people are finally getting tired of this(it's been happening for 10 years). It will be a good thing if AAA collapses, indie and intermediate devs are strong and will keep us entertained.
EA sold to saudi arabia...maybe we will get a 9/11 game lolSince white guys left hollywood, the messaging had to be put in where the white guys were. So it went to video games.lol only game we should be playing is commie killer irl
There’s only one game worth playing these days.
>>522584220you view this through young eyes - games journalism being bought off for favorable reviews was a thing even in the mid 1990's. It just went into overdrive in 2012 after Occupy Wallstreet scared the living fuck out of bankers and they turned up the ideology to distract from the class warfare.
Um probably because they can't afford to it's that or food, rent/mortgage, property taxes, insurance etc etc the list is endless maybe stop making everything so expensive and people will buy your products and services.
>>522575468US game companies refuse to make good games, nobody buys, who could have foreseen this!?
>>522589752>It just went into overdrive in 2012 after Occupy Wallstreet scared the living fuck out of bankers and they turned up the ideology to distract from the class warfare.Literally no one cared about Occupy. It was just great entrainment when people kept getting arrested.
>>522589966Also this
>>5225754681. They're expensive2. Most new games are shit3. a handful of the best games last years
>>522575562given how much money GTA V prints I think it's incredibly stupid that they are rolling the dice on a sequel in the first place, given that it guarantees GTA V dies out and you have no guarantee the replacement would be as profitable. Should have done DLCs and map add ons forever like The Sims does.
I dont know but I like playing that AiScReam song on SMhttps://youtu.be/I7jlnPPKZkA
>>522589752How many years pre-Mortgage implosion did the FBI decide to round up the oldfags? So typical, the FBI works for the banks, and the Banks engage in mortgage fraud. Then they bail out the banks with debt spending. Then they fuck up pop-culture with psy-ops. I honestly don't know how anyone at the FBI can wake up and look themselves in the eye.
>>522575468what the fuck do you retarded faggots mean "people aren't buying games anymore"? are you not counting microtransactions and live services and gambling as gaming? there IS NO FUCKING WAY the consumerist sheep stopped spending money on that shit you retarded faggots"stay tuned for tomorrow's apocalypse, everyone! only here on my youtube channel!"
>>522575664I support Them burning to the ground with no survivors. Maybe their whores can save them.
>>522591269There cant just be vidyageams NOT coming out.
>>522576159>he doesn't have his original copy on physical media
>>522575468If you don't use GOG you don't buy shit. You rent games.
>>522575644Smart move. If they want my $70, they need to step up their games.
>>522575468Imagine the goyim cattle who buy consoles and pay for games in 2025.
>>522580567>$6000 pc>only plays old MS-DOS games
>>522591914Its just about everybody.
>>522575468I hope that doesn't happen.On the other hand, indie games seem stable, they're cheap, and future generations might discover them.
>>522576049>Tripfag attention whore>It was $15. It will be the first and only game keycard I'll get.I'll only use it once, says the future addict. I won't end up like that guy, says the future addict.
>>522593425Not an "attention whore"You dont know the future. Order up on this clairvoyant cuck for 2 weeks.
>>522575468Comic books go woke.No one buys comic books anymore.Tv goes wokeNo one watches TV anymore.Movies go wokeNo one watches movies anymore video games go wokeNo one is buying video games anymore.No one can figure out why
>>522594979No idea why people stopped drinking bud light
>>522594979Lack of innovation is to blame.
>>522575468- Israeli VPN accounts for porn.- Twitter proxies.
>>522593935LAWLZ you are the 4chinz pol poster boy of attention whoring. How’s work this weekend?
>>522575535do you know that 90% of that or more is laundered money from crimes against humanity and that the house of cards is about to fallthey are not making jack shitif i am wrong why did sony buy bungie a 600m company for 3.6 billion dollarsand why specifically 3.6 aka 666they took over video games cuz its the easiest way to launder moneygames like osrs are like 90% bots do you actually think baldurs gay 3 has like 150k people online in a single player non replayable game ?lol no
>>522575468Games used to not suck.I've been playing Sim City 4 lately.Shits cash, I've got it tricked out with all the good mods.
>>522591914i bought a ps5 in 2023 after getting out of jail due to lawfare( literally just dragged me off and made up some shit dc area sucks ) my ps4 and pc broke before i went also due to lawfare so i grabbed a ps5 to not be scammed out of my digital games i bought when i was depressed ( family bought it for me)so i mean its nice having a console but i refuse to buy gamesi need to cancel my ps plus lolbut i need something to keep me saneid pirate but they break every pc i buy or remote desktop it to not play/workim not joking lol fuck americaif youre not a revnue stream and you dont comply they will literally drag you off soviet union style in blue areas and call you "mentally ill"i got out after 16 months got an evalguess what im not mentally illin what world do the kike ass cops get to drag people offlie about them being crazydeny their right to a fair trial then keep you on a ankle monitor for 3 years innocent while literal child rapists and niggers get 6 months
>>522581031I do what I want, bitch. I'm not gonna rush to give chucklefriends the next $60+. You are a chump as far as I see it, but that is from the perspective of someone who does not take gaming seriously. I think it's wrong to take gaming seriously and I don't actually know many people who do (probably a self-filtering effect from the gamers taking gaming too seriously)
>>522575468>a majority of videogame sales are fueled by only 4% of playersNo shit retards I've been telling you this for years. Why do you think all these pozzed up woke trash games keep failing? The audience that spends money on your games are the RACIST MISOGYNISTIC CHUDS you hate so much.
>>522581031i have literally played everything in my backlog that doesnt suck assi just play it on my timeits best to wait for it to be cheap but with used games and the crap going on now if you get it for like 5 dollars doesnt really matteri actually spent less money buying cheap ass digital games or used from gamestop then i did on hard drives for "sailing the seas"
>>522596525Stfu you obnoxious fat bitch no one wants to live in gay fag annoying dyke world you don’t speak for any male American and you never did
>>522575468The only half decent AAA games to come out this year were the Oblivion remaster and Battlefield. So consumers are just reacting to the available supply they're given.
>>522581857at least with nikke they took some of the money and made stellar bladei could see mtx being like way less evil if they make it so you can grind everything without paying and just provide an option to paythen use the money to spam develop 10/10 singleplayer gamesbetter than sitting on the money or sending it into the money laundering minesstellar blade was fun toonot defending a megacorp tho desu they are most likely evilnikke is also waaay too sexualizedive never played but i like eleggs design lol
>>522575468Never pay money AAAslop no matter what.
>>522575664no it's woke
>>522596095>LAWLZ you are the 4chinz pol poster boy of attention whoring. Nope. I need a way to track my posts as I may or may not have short-term memory loss. I dont know. I cant remember. >How’s work this weekend?Its been great. Stream goals have been exceeded. Thanks for asking. >>522596879No its not.
>>522575468It crashed before because the slop was unreal.It will crash again because the slop is unreal.It's going to be fine, shit companies will hang.
>>522596641Reading comprehension: 0
>>522575468I am just old I mean obviously old as dirt I am 47. Man I genuinely am trying to find some Cyber Monday deals on games its like... Metal Gear Delta, ARC Raiders with no willingness to use mic and "negotiate", maybe I'll get Battlefield 6, 35$ not bad, Madden 2025, Borderlands 4 meh I dunno man Millennial Humor, and that's it? Just hard for me to really get excited for games anymore. I know I should be buying KDC2 or one of these Steam indies tho. At least I played Expedition 33, once I played that I felt like I could almost skip the rest of 2025.
Dunno
>>522575655>Buying a Swtich 2 just to play Tetris
>>522575468Only AAA studios will crash, except >>522575535Fifa ultimate team microtransactions make more money than the rest of the industry does with sales combined.
how to game in 2025 without giving as much money or none to megacorps while still having fundont upgrade your pcplay old games play modspirate etc emulateif you dont have hardwarebuy a used ps4 for games that dont run well on pcsteam deck ( cheapest one) steam machine etcyou can play games with 1000s of hours of content and not spend as much money.dont be a whale buying mtx 60 dollar games digital games you dont play etci got a ton of games to play thru on ps5 ( i know i suck) and when i get my pc fixed a bunch of shit on there new games suck fucking ass anyways
>>522575468The biggest hype I've seen lately is that Battlefield 6 will be....a normal Battlefield game.And GTA 6 will....exist.
>>522582851Bro Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 is the greatest simulation of being a crusader that has ever been. Don't listen to people who try to neg you out by saying you can be gay or see Masa Musa its all optional shit its a legit White Man Game if you avoid all that. I know I didn't play it desu but I heard of it.
>>522575655Should I get a PS5 to play Hello Kitty Island Adventure? I heard people put 200+ hours into the game building frenships with all the characters and finding flowers.
>>522575468the war industry
>>522575664I'll start paying when games ship finished and there's no microtransactions in pay to play games. None of those three are ever happening.
Whenever I see new games in these corporate shows or game awards or directs ETC i never feel like buying any of them. They are always some remake or an uninteresting game apeing popular trends and made by a studio that has long since peaked.When is the last time we saw a game show and you felt excitement for 30 minutes straight?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_in_video_gameshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_in_video_gamesImagine if we had another year like 2007. You cant even imagine it.The most recent game i've downloaded was Fire emblem Shadows for IOS and I only play it because there hasnt been a good fire emblem in 10 years. This year has been so shit for vidya that a mobile game with 4 buttons is my GOTY (tied with silksong). Its gotten so dire that my gaming buds are unironically playing MAUSRITTER in person because they all got tired of mh:wilds and fotm shooters. Other than that i just played xbox gamepass games on my brothers shitbox every couple of months and the vast majority of those are from previous console generations. emulation is easier than ever too.Thnx 4 blog
>>522585879>It comes with being cancer that pushes consumerist policies to own nothing.Thanks for being redundant for "Us" gamers.
>>522575468>new study reveals>ignores that indies are selling like hotcakes by just having simple, fun gamesFuck off, AAA.Put your fat bloated bodies in the grave you dug.
>>522575468Video games suck.
>>522575785This. I can buy a good game with no microtransactions on sale for 15 or less deutschmarks made by people who care. Why pay 80 for a bad slop game full of microtransactions made by spiteful mutants who hate me personally?
>>522597302KCD2 is worse than the first in so many ways, and the only thing KCD series did well is single combat/Duels which literally just becomes all about Master Strike because nothing else even comes close.
>>522597302not buying your woke slop tongue my anus faggot
>>522597463just play old shit lolsteam deck and a ps5/steam machine and some old hacked consoles + likea cheap laptop used and a tablet would cover everything worth playingrn i haveps5 switch oled ( got it as a gift rip lol got locked out of my acc but i can still play) a 1070 pc kindle fire from like 10 years ago (gift)i can def kill alot of time reading manga onlinemooching off my grandparents streaming services and watching streaming sites online/sailing the seas0 reason to buy overpriced garbage desui bought a 3080 pc in 2022 and i returned it cuz i was likethis is barely better than a 1070 fuck that
>>522597302>yeah bro im totally not a bot or shill buy my woke ass garbage made with ai and indians
>>522581048just gotta be lucky as shit
>>522575468>What's going to take it's place when the gaming industry crashes?Still will rake in more than Hollywood's Big Studio System-- Consoles will displace the PC Master Race for a period, since gaming's core is for children and adolescents - particularly for boys to do what latchkey kids pre-internet would otherwise. The insistence of Open World sims and chasing Photorealism in-itself was always bullshit-- it's about the aesthetic, the story, and the way game mechanics are implemented. Of course, those are convenient covers for surveillance, data mining, and crypto mining . . . until the ass bottoms out of the consumer market being psyop nickel & dime'd to death with industrial psych min-maxxed casino monetization.
>>522575468I'm not paying Microsoft 1000$ for what's essentially a shitty gaming laptop in handheld form plus the subsidized cost of gamepass to play the latest triple gay dei unoptimized AI slopware these jeet ran companies are producing gtfo the only thing gaming wise I've paid Microjeets for in recent history still worth purchasing is Minecraft and the retards still can't get bedrock to run right after almost a decade even after constantly raising the price of the base game.
>>522576400Yeah, that approach won't get him to buy games. You've tried this already. People aren't buying your faggot shit.
>>522575468Indie games are doing just fine
Maybe if they make some good fucking games, I’ll buy them.
>>522575655Did you get “Hello Kitty 2: Judgement Day - Hell on Earth” yet? Awesome FPS.
>>522597119I play more than just tetris though it takes up a lot of the playtime.>>522597307Unsure. I haven't played it yet and is there for when I have massive leg cramps from playing DDR.>>522597389Fast forward to the 21st century.>>522597495What are you talking about?>>522598402No. Dont want to be frightened. Real life is scarry enough.
>>522575468https://youtu.be/zqk9V0fBl7w?si=vyIB3xRe851hgpzA
>>522597119I was tempted to get a switch 2 just to play Sakuna and sunbreak in 60 FPS but switch 2 has no games so i didnt.
