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Video games spending by young Americans is dropping sharply, report suggests (www.gamesindustry.biz)

submitted 2 days ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 81 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I'm sure it has nothing to do with shitty half baked $70 games

[–] AmazingAwesomator@lemmy.world 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

and the microtransactions inside them. and the underwhelming day 1 dlc.

[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 8 points 2 days ago

with no new ideas and safe bets only.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

overpriced games
fully-priced games with microtransactions and day 1 DLCs.
overpriced hardware
games released broken, fixed later
Invasive DRM
Always-online requirements
annoying ads/microtransactions
invasive telemetry
third party launchers
third party accounts
Publishers intentionally misleading reviewers
False/misleading marketing from GPU OEMs

What else am I missing?

[–] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Games locked behind exclusivity deals begging/forcing to install multiple launchers to play different games
Major game-dev doesnt innovate and have forgot how to be imaginative.
Games as services is priority cause it brings money to corpos

Thankfully, indie-dev is epic right this moment! Lot's of lesser known but very fun games coming out.

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

Not fixed later, fixed maybe.

[–] El_Scapacabra@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

As a rule, I never buy games on release. From everything I hear, you pay twice the price to get an unfinished game in most cases.

I put them on my wishlist, keep an eye on the reviews and depending on those I decide how much of a discount it will require for me to actually buy the game. Usually I end up getting them at least a year later and/or at least at 50% off.

[–] piefood@feddit.online 7 points 2 days ago

!patientgamers@sh.itjust.works and !patientgamers@lemmy.ml :D