>>14655350
Games used to be fun because consumers had more opportunity to demo games before buying them. Blockbuster, demo discs, friends sharing games, all of these allowed people a chance to see what was on the market, try something out, and decide whether or not it was worth their money.
So what happened? The death of rentals combined with the increased popularity of gaming made EVERYBODY who produces video games, corporate and indie alike, to go into overdrive. Players are spoiled for fucking choice, so it behooves everybody who makes games to pump out one shitty game after another and find something–anything–to help market their shitty titles.
Even the best games suffer from this. Valve's hands-off approach to quality control–"Let the games decide"–ensures that thousands of games flood the marketplace, many of them full of bugs and glitches, and some of them even complete bullshit scams. The best games get washed away in the piss-stained swamp of mediocrity, and at this point the collective attention span of the public is so short that even the best games fall out of favor so quickly that nothing sticks around long enough to make a profit.
Combine this with the big corporate mindset that it's more important to drive profit than it is to provide a high quality gaming experience, and we can see why good video games are in decline. Most people don't like shitty loot boxes because they're DESIGNED to be fucking addictive, asshole: loot boxes and gachashit are intended to drive you to buy more and more and more because they intentionally program them to take advantage of the biological and psychological triggers to create dopamine rushes in your fucking brain. They design the ENTIRE GAME around the microtransactions to encourage you to buy "just one more thing". The actual gameplay tends to be lacking, they push DLC out for purchase the same day, and games are rushed out to market so fast that we wind up with games that are so broken and poorly optimized that people simply can't play them.
Or are you going to tell me that the thousands of people who purchased Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus and Assassin's Creed: Unity are just mad about how poorly the game was "reviewed"?
The way games are reviewed is another bullshit problem entirely, to be fair. This ridiculous mindset that nothing bad can happen to WYMYN or COLORED PEOPLE–Sorry, that's racist, I meant PEOPLE OF COLOR BECAUSE THAT'S TOTALLY DIFFERENT GOYIM–otherwise it's a representation of racism, sexism, colonialism, Islamophobia, homophobia, etc., taints the way they review anything and everything. Somehow, they manage to not only refuse to acknowledge that there are serious problems in the production side of the industry between loot boxes, blatant false advertisement, day-one DLC, unnecessarily over-pushed microtransactions, and incredibly weak gameplay, art, story, and music, they ALSO manage to cock up the reporting because they only care about pushing their own mindset into the games they review:
>Ubisoft opened the door with exploration mode, so we should FINALLY get rid of all the combat and bosses and gameplay because it's too hard.
>Can we consider for a second that the phrase "GIT GUD" is toxic? You shouldn't be good at games to enjoy them.
>I got called a pussy in a multiplayer game. Here's why that is harassment and should be censored.
>Street Fighter 5's Ryu has a shirtless costume, and it's amazingly hot, but Cammy, R. Mika I don't know what the R stands for because I don't play Street Fighter games, and Chun Li's default costumes are indicative of the misogyny inherent in gaming.
<2014: Guns in Video Games Linked to Violence
<2014: Ignore the Journalist Having Sex With a Developer, Misogynistic Nerds
<2018: Trump Says Video Games Linked to Violence, Here's Why He's Wrong
<Also 2018: Sexy Women in Video Games Linked to Misogyny
It's enough to make me want to rip my hair out because it's just proof that these people don't care about games. They care about themselves, their images, their 'connections', and their political worldview, and NOTHING could be further from their minds than fair, objective reporting on the facts and paying attention to their actual reader base.
This industry is dying because greedy fucks and ignorant faggots are running it into the ground. They ignore the people that actually fuel the industry, the paying customers, en masse in favor of their own personal interests and political viewpoints. Don't pretend for a fraction of a second that many of these games are actually fun. Skyrim is 7 fucking years old and normalfags eat that shit up despite being flooded with stupid bugs. I had a friend who is a crazy Star Wars nerd who bought Soy Wars: Battlefront 2 and dropped it after 2 weeks, and another friend who preordered Destiny 2 and dropped it in the same amount of time.