I agree, but you'd think that would make them want good games ffs. Gamers are just so incredibly brain broken, I really have a hard time wrapping my head around that mindset. The video game industry is just such a clear example of how the quest to squeeze every cent of profit out of a product inevitably makes it shittier for (almost) everyone involved. From the consoomer side of things (micro transactions, buggy games shoved out the door, games getting more expensive when distribution has only gotten cheaper) to the actual workers producing the damn things (crunch time, low pay, being forced to meet impossible deadlines) it only has gotten worse, with the profits going to a handful of fat cats. And these dumbass fucking moronic gamers clap like seals for CoD 2K23 and blame "the woke left" for making games worse by gasp including characters that aren't a white guy!?
Sorry about the rant but goddamn how can those people be so fucking dense!?
My guess is they're just not burned out yet. The industry isn't 100% soulless microtransactions yet, there's still good stuff to find every year. Eventually that will get rarer and rarer.
Unfortunately like your mention the gamer demo is heavily propagandized by reactionaries so their response will probably be to blame the gays or something.
I think you are underestimating how willing they are to lie to themselves that they are 'having fun and this is a good game'. Literally, I have friends doing this with Starfield, and I'll watch them play it and Baldur's Gate 3 and the difference between their reactions and happiness level is readily apparent.
I liken it to the reaction of guys who have been burned on a weed purchase, where it's really shitty weed. He may eventually buy some good weed, but he'll still keep the crappy weed around and convince himself it's worth it, even mixing it in with the good stuff, diluting it for no real reason, or saying 'it's more of a CBD high, y'know?' when he clearly isn't having a good time on it. It's gotta be some combination of the sunk-cost with the minor dopamine hit. It's wild to watch.
I agree, but you'd think that would make them want good games ffs. Gamers are just so incredibly brain broken, I really have a hard time wrapping my head around that mindset. The video game industry is just such a clear example of how the quest to squeeze every cent of profit out of a product inevitably makes it shittier for (almost) everyone involved. From the consoomer side of things (micro transactions, buggy games shoved out the door, games getting more expensive when distribution has only gotten cheaper) to the actual workers producing the damn things (crunch time, low pay, being forced to meet impossible deadlines) it only has gotten worse, with the profits going to a handful of fat cats. And these dumbass fucking moronic gamers clap like seals for CoD 2K23 and blame "the woke left" for making games worse by gasp including characters that aren't a white guy!?
Sorry about the rant but goddamn how can those people be so fucking dense!?
My guess is they're just not burned out yet. The industry isn't 100% soulless microtransactions yet, there's still good stuff to find every year. Eventually that will get rarer and rarer.
Unfortunately like your mention the gamer demo is heavily propagandized by reactionaries so their response will probably be to blame the gays or something.
I think you are underestimating how willing they are to lie to themselves that they are 'having fun and this is a good game'. Literally, I have friends doing this with Starfield, and I'll watch them play it and Baldur's Gate 3 and the difference between their reactions and happiness level is readily apparent.
I liken it to the reaction of guys who have been burned on a weed purchase, where it's really shitty weed. He may eventually buy some good weed, but he'll still keep the crappy weed around and convince himself it's worth it, even mixing it in with the good stuff, diluting it for no real reason, or saying 'it's more of a CBD high, y'know?' when he clearly isn't having a good time on it. It's gotta be some combination of the sunk-cost with the minor dopamine hit. It's wild to watch.