Why Gaming Isn't Fun Anymore | Flats Reacts
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I think gaming culture is too filled with fulltime gamers. And even worse than that, games are trying to cater to these people, so you miss out if you dont fulltime play a game, but if you do fulltime play a game you arent fulfilled so it doesnt last.
Full time gamers are not a problem, activists and execs are the problem, catering to a less than 1% minority worldwide to push their autism for profit and growth, neither of which will happen
Altho i did like loot boxes, since atleast then u can get good skins for free whereas they dont give u store credits for free. Even if when you do pay money, its much better to just buy skins direct.
Gamers that are obsessed with meta ruin games imo.
You realize Flats is one of them lol.
@@xfreedombuckO5x This
Indie games are the way forward.
truth
Except there are a ton of fun triple A games, videos like these are just rage baiting for clicks
@@theurbanreanimator7244 name 5 AAA games that are fun
@@exoduspeanut6843 Do you mean like in general or this year? Because if its general that's laughably easy, even if fun is subjective.
indie games and specific companies, yeah
the only company i can think of off the top of my head would be From Software (ofc), but there are others
Ain't even a minute pass and I'm already seeing 3 fucking bots I'm crying 😭
starting to think that these comments are bots to
@@driftingbout297 how dare you i'm the same as you my fellow flesh person 👀
I agree with Dunkey’s take here, gaming is both the worst and best it’s ever been.
Games are fun as hell. People are forcing themselves to play bad games lol.
The worst part is, the bad ones are the most addictive.
This definitely feels very genre dependent as an rpg and fighting game fan games have honestly been the most fun they can be at the moment. While fps and action adventure games arent doing so hot in the current climate for reason or another. The player base for these games also commonly dont branch off paths to try different things and just funnel all their money and hope into lesser projects. Making this weird cycle of disappointment
It's mostly multiplayer/competitive games that aren't fun anymore imo.
I wish I could be disappointed with the RTS genre. but instead we're just mourning it.
Honestly like one of my fav genres are tactical/crpgs which are way less prevalent in the market. But man, Dragon Age Origins in early 2000; Divinity; Path of Exile; Baldur's Gate 3; New Arc Line is my next anticipated crpg. And these games just bang so I've had consistent fun. Other genres I prefer are hack & slash and metroidvanias which have so many prevalent, well-made franchises it's hard to get disappointed. But FPS games? So monotonous, it genuinely just feels like a point and click to me.
@@malvarado9912That along with graphic adventure games like King's Quest which younger me loved 🥲
I've seen long enough to see a lot of genres have their rise and fall within certain periods. 8-bit to 16-bit everyone was doing platformers but got mostly burned out by the early 3D era with some exceptions like Crash, Spyro and Super Mario 64. 16-bit era was the rise of the JRPG and then it stalled for a while after PS2. And the 2000s decade was peak FPS on both PC and consoles.
If you feel that gaming is not fun you are playing the wrong games. Plently of independant studios releasing quality content. Don't be a sheep.
Yeah, most of these complaints are for as a service games. Which is part of the evolution though. Indie games don't get always get passive income like as a service games..
Enjoying triple a games dont make you a sheep.
I mean you don’t need to look that hard for games that aren’t 2k or call of duty
Playing triple A games even though you don't enjoy them when you could be playing games you enjoy more would make you a sheep, I think. @@natemyrick6373
yeah honestly these people need to use their search bar more
"Why aren't games fun anymore" and they're showing MW Multiplayer. FPS players really got it bad lately huh. Play any other game, I beg you. This year alone, Prince of Persia The Lost Crown, FF7 Rebirth, Infinite Wealth, Crow Country, Unicorn Overlord, Helldivers 2. Nevermind the huge back catalogue of games you've prob missed out on or can afford to give a try
Cause FPS players are about one step over the Madden/FIFA players cause they actually are starting to be burnt out and realizing “hey wait a minute maybe we’re being scammed here?”
They won’t change cause that’s all they know, doesn’t matter if you show how there’s greener pastures and healthier genres if it doesn’t have a gun they’re not interested. Which I mean fair if you like FPS games it sucks that all the AAA stuff marketed to you sucks shit but there’s still plenty of indie FPS games ya just gotta be willing to move on past “name brand”
games focus on making the most money rather than selling the most copies now. in the past, the way to make money was to make a great game everyone bought. now, you just have to cater to the small portion that will spend tons of money in the game. as well as the biggest games bei by free now and reliant on micro transactions
Lol this statement only rings true if you play like 2 games.
@@7gamex Yep this is a statement of someone who only plays pvp fps
@@7gamexthere are plenty of games which don’t fit those descriptions however what sorts of games are modern AAA game studios making? How many multiplayer ftp micro transaction filled dogshit has been released over the past 2 years vs the past 10 behind it?
@@Sensei_gojo Obviously we're seeing more micro transaction games happening, but the idea that we're seeing more of those instead of more good games? That's bullshit.
There's SOOO many incredible games, but people for whatever reason, only play PvP games. The video game industry isnt boring, nor is it even remotely close to being boring. People just need to expand their gaming beyond PvP pew pew games. Those do get boring after the 10,000 reskinned hero shooter, or COD wannabe.
Just this year we got FF7 Rebirth, Elden Ring DLC in a week, Hellblade 2, Paper Mario, Helldivers, Manor Lords just to name a few. Theres literally a video game for any genre lover, yet people are saying games are boring. 2023 arguably was the best year in gaming history. Theres no way people have beaten everything from last year already. And this year we still have a few bangers to look forward to Stalker 2 is my most anticipated.
2024 is suffering from video game fatigue because 2023 was so good. Happenes every year after a banger year. 2025 looks like its going to be another banger year for gaming. So 2026 will probably be dry like this year. Its just how video games have always gone, and will always go. Play different games, and youll realize gaming is still good. Just my thoughts
Thank you. I hear people say “gaming is dying” and it’s like they’re on another planet. I guess if you define “gaming” as “CoD, Madden and Fortnite” it’s probably dying. The rest of us are having a blast
"Why Gaming Isn't Fun Anymore" sounds very subjective
""why gaining isn't fun anymore" sounds very subjective" sounds very subjective
At the same time it has a very objective ground to stand in, it is an undeniable truth that gaming rn is the most money focused it has ever been
@@ventus3610 And mfs get greedy
@@ventus3610I still have fun with games but it’s definitely true that companies are DRAGGING it rn with what they charge
@@ventus3610Fair but the question whether or not the games themselves are fun is still subjective.
Which imho, they are.
I stopped playing over watch and apex and now I have fun playing again
bro literally same
Any recommendations. I want out but don't really know what to play honestly.
@@dementeddingo321 brother try branching away from fps, try strategy games or rpgs. It’ll be fun to learn these games and give you an appreciation for apex once it gets good again
Good on you, any recommendations?
@@dementeddingo321story based games are a good place to go
God it's crazy how retention numbers have become the only thing that matters that the gaming news industry were like "oh no looks like Elden ring has lost 75% of its player numbers! This means the game is failing!" as if Elden ring were a skinner box game meant to sell skins when it's a single player action rpg that is meant to be finished.
Its wild how rotted the roots are, that a single. Player game having players enjoy it and then move on was inconceivable.
“I feel like the diversity of overwatch characters isnt as big anymore” i think that they can only make each individual character can only be so different the more of them they make, ability wise too.
Nah, so much more ideas add Crossbow support 🔥
Yeah I've been thinking that too, but then Illari and Venture came out
Okay as soon as he complained about trailer music being synced to sounds i knew this was rage bait, what an asinine complaint
those are always the most hype trailers
14:00 whelp, BG3 must be walkin' on air then bc every time I play it, it's on my day off for 5 hours minimum xD
One of the hardest things for me nowadays is watching my beloved titles be gutted and turned into monstrous shadows of what they used to be
Overwatch
What are some franchises that have been destroyed for you ? I am just curious because most franchises have been destroyed
@@tbagger5211 overwatch, tf2 I guess, COD, I'm blanking but I almost had a big list I think lmao
@@bambampewpew32 for sure I get it , overwatch for me has been the most disappointing. I have got into other games though mostly single player ones to fill the void . I will still play ow2 but not really as much
Gaming is dying because companies refuse to listen to what the players want. Cod players scream for bo2 style gameplay back. Activision be like "lol nope". Fortnite players scream for chapter 1 style gameplay back. Epic be like "lol nope". Its the same with every game
I feel for our fellow tf2 players rn....they've been trying to get valves attention to fix their game and they get absolutely nothing
6:49 --> “the call is coming from inside the house!”
What I noticed trying to quit Overwatch recently is that fps games nowadays don't even focus on the basics anymore. The vast majority of fps games I tried either have bad gunplay, bad movement, or both. Not saying that all fps games need to be movement shooters, but it should still feel good- I thought XDefiant felt clunky as hell. Same with Apex honestly. THE FINALS as well. The bare fucking minimum for an fps should be good feeling mechanics, but companies aren't going for that anymore, they're just going for how much money they can squeeze out of you
I think there is SO many games.. so many styles… so much… it’s literally hard to please because our brains have expanded so much in games…
It’s getting to the point where we’re gonna need a life like Ready Player One
I went to Game Development and Game Programming courses around 2017-2018 and I had this Indie Dev professor, I never forget one of the things he said.
When we asked about what the AAA was doing he said "Guys it's simple. Gamers pay money for fun and fulfillment. You want to sell microtransactions? You need to make your game fun enough to play, but not too much fun. And no fulfillment in the slightest. Point them towards the store for that."
That's why Gacha gameplay usually sucks and is shallow. So that you find the fulfillment with the gacha rolls instead.
So I am a dev, not a game dev (though I have) and I think that the way software is built these days has a huge role in the issues we see today also
You'll find it hard to find a company that doesn't use "agile development" it's a good idea don't get me wrong but the general idea is you're able to refocus whenever needed and you deliver incrementals of value. All the games you used to love would have been developed in a "waterfall" workflow... Basically you build thing entire thing and ship the entire thing and that's the end of it
There is no room for error, you HAVE to get it right the first time and so intensive testing happens before the product is shipped, that's not to say we don't test today however I work at a very very large media company today and they always work to an MVP and you can just tell that this is not people's passion
I could go on, but delivery of software in chunk ls in my opinion has really hurt quality
I've learned to constantly cycle my game types. Usually sticks to the same pattern of Competitive, Single Player, Co-Op, Co-Op creative/farming, then ARPG/MMO (usually Warframe/PoE). Basically a cycle of hating people into loving people again lmao.
No wonder you arent having fun when you’re only playing Overwatch 2 for 8 hours a day on a terrible patch. I think you should make the full jump to variety at this point, man. It’d be better for you in the long term I bet.
One of the reasons is that a lot of them, mostly multiplayer games, feels like a chore now with dailies, battlepasses and expensive af skins etc.
Ok, I do plan to watch all of this then edit anything in particular that might need to be changed if a point gets brought up that I didn't think about but with all that being said:
Video games are and will always be fun. It starts to feel draining if your surrounding yourself with the same kind of corporate, Triple A repetitiveness. Without renovation, things get stale. This is no different if you are an advent fan of music or films/tv. If you are just consuming the same multi-billion dollar projects created by the same corporations in the exact same genre, things will start to feel not fun anymore.
Video games however, thrive the most and genuinely feel fun again when you start to dive into the indie selection. - Super Meat Boy, Limbo, Fez, Hades, Slay the Spire, Return of the Obra Dinn, Papers Please, Stardew Valley, Spelunky, FTL, Inscryption. All phenomenal games, all incredibly fun, all started and made through a small team (or even by just one person) that feel fresh and new.
Video games will no longer be fun if you fail to expand and broaden your horizons and stick to the mediocrity of rehashed, run of the mill corpa projects.
Gaming used to be my main hobby, now it has slowly shifted towards fantasy and science fiction books. I used to like games for the fun times playing them and the stories they told. Modern games have become so shallow story wise and are turned into almost a day job to play rather than a past time. Books at least offer that itch of a good story and it is easy to find other people interested in the same stories to engage with.
It seems like the biggest culprits of this are the FPS/PVP action adventure games. A lot of the games I play are just RPGs, Platformers, and some others that I'm not really seeing any of these problems in. Not that there aren't genuine issues among some of those games either, but it feels like the "Games aren't fun anymore" is mainly pertaining to a specific genre or two. Splatoon, Paper Mario, so many other games have been a blast for years for me.
I do hope the whole loot crazed battle pass shit does eventually go away or at least a middle ground where it's not so atrocious.
Don't think games are fun anymore cause people are playing games to win, to be the best. Not just cause they enjoy that type of game. They all want to be the next ninja, faker, or shroud. And the gamers who do this will flame the other players for trying to have fun and not playing for the win.
Also as for why singleplayer games are more boring its cause people will watch guides and try to optimize the experience rather then play it themselves
I see the time thing with my students at school. When I was there age, I was already a real gaming fan. I had a few games I really enjoyed to come back a few times per week like Pokemon, Animal Crossing or Super Smash Bros. But also I was always saving up for a new game to play and enjoy for a few weeks and complete them, borrow them to my friends, talk about it, etc. Nowaday the "gamer kids" play like 2-3 games for months and years. Like atm everyone pumps every free second into Brawl Stars or Fortnite. They probably have like thousands of hours of playtime. When I was like 13/14 I have already experienced some of my most beloved games til today. And every now and then I enjoy getting back to them, replay them, while also playing new stuff. Its so weird seeing todays kids probably spend more time and money for video games then myself at their age, while making only a fraction of amazing experiences in this medium.
what's the music that plays at the end of this video?
I recently got to play with a friend i havent talked to in 3 years, and the first thing we hopped on to is overwatch. Honestly both of us were having lots of stuff, however that was probably just because we got to play together and enjoy the game and him first learning about it.
Its crazy because I have literally spent the past month playing older story games because I don't enjoy some of the games out that I have. It is very interesting because I thought I was the only one feeling this way.
I dont know if I agree with that, because we're the original cast trully more diverse? Like tell me how cass is somehow less diverse now, or ana, tracer, genji and all them.
Now I can see this arguement for tank but that's not an issue caused by different visions so much as queue times and 5v5.
No I think it's actually having to do with the other point he makes where the devs goal isnt to make the game fun anymore, their goal is to appease as many people as they can moderately well, so instead of all the biggest ow fans trully enjoying the game to its fullest, now everyone can enjoy a little of overwatch but ultimately were all unhappy, because while I'll always keep playing echo, genji rein and doomfist, I'm not exactly having much fun on them, I'm being drip fed fun through artificially created wins, since the game now has a losers queue (which they admitted) it means the game is no longer rng based and rather is based around trying to even out wins and loses which I'm not saying the games completely rigged but theyve definitely diluted it with controlling your wins. But the kid that can barely hold a controller or keyboard is now also drip fed some fun because the only hero they can play, orisa, is always meta so instead of me being rewarded for my time and effort, creating a fun environment, now were all just able to play our heros irregardless of how good or bad we are and this is the philosophy that's killing games, as soon as you abandon fun for mass appeal, you will forever be cursed with an angry community 😂
They need to go back to making you feel rewarded for investing time into their game, not just giving out participation rewards in exchange for little Jimmy's moms money 😂
I think creators do know more about certain parts of games than devs do. I like to use racing as an analogy: game devs are like car designers. They know the science behind engineering and building a race car. Pro players are like professional drivers; they may not know the engineering science behind car design, but there is no doubt that they know things about cars that the designers can never know. An engineer can never understand things about a car's performance if they can't use it at the highest level. That's why it's a bad idea to design a car without driver input.
I definitely disagree on the trailer being synced to music point. A good trailer with a good song can easily get people excited to play a game. I do agree that it doesn't show anything really relevant to the game, but that's why there are different trailers, such as cinematic trailers, showcase trailers, gameplay trailers, teaser trailers, etc.
I think there needs to be a healthy balance between games like Fortnite, call of duty, and overwatch vs games like resident evil, elder ring, and hollow Knight. For both devs making them and gamers playing them.
This is why I only play overwatch and use my hacked switch/emulators for old stuff i didnt play as a kid
the biggest thing i think that makes this apparent is battle passes,you have to pay for it then play the game for long period of times so their getting money AND game time at the same time,fun doesn't matter its more about what can you unlock and level up in the game and how can we get you to spend money on it all
For over a year now I’ve been wanting a new Burnout game or NFL street to come out because I remember how fun they are, and I feel like no one even makes arcade like games like those anymore and I’ve wanted something like that for so long now
flats dont react to these "gaming sucks" videos bc 99% of the time they are made by people who only play shitty AAA games so they have something to complain about. literally just play fun games its not that hard.
Not even AAA games in general specifically AAA FPS and sports games
For me it’s probably that video games are so easy to access and I think it just makes it so if I don’t wanna play it because something is slightly wrong I’ll just move on. Also watching people play video games for some reason feels more entertaining and enjoyable than just playing them yourself.
“Watching a video about how soulless games are in their meed for money”
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Yes come. Come to me. Leave your screens behind and take on the tabletop. I will be waiting dice in hand
Kinda funny that he points out the endless treadmill then points you to more of his content. No one escapes the treadmill.
I appreciate people like matpat covering indie games because those games have a lot of heart put into them.
Halo CE is tied with Titanfall 2 to be my favorite shooter ever. Who knew designing shooters to have good campaigns, fun gameplay, unique style, fun lore, and non competitive atmosphere would make them fun?
I truly believe this is exactly why baldur’s gate 3 and elden ring were so hugely well received & loved by gamers, even by those completely new to those style of games despite a learning curve to get over
I don't know how else to describe it besides it feels like now all my favorite games are being made and run by people who are there for a 9 to 5 and would jump ships if given the chance. There's nothing compelling me to play games for more than an hour. It's like they're missing their souls. That, and I like playing games for the social aspects and the challenge of getting better. So many people I run into are just vicious, overly competitive, and have bad sportsmanship and it definitely has me in a chokehold of performance anxiety at all times.
I really do want a subjectively good competitive fps experience, and that is simultaneously the tragedy of Overwatch and part of what keeps it alive. Overwatch gathered a LOT of gamers initially in it's first years; from experienced to new fps players, it holds the gap between the old and new guard of fps gaming. To me it seems that all of the games that release now are low TTK hide-in-corner and team-push experience; even Apex with it's relatively high TTK has turned into a game of fear and sitting in wait for something to happen; and this is in great contrast to the early seasons of Overwatch (though balance, hard-counters, and playing rock-paper-scissors with teams in spawnrooms now makes Ow feel almost as bad; the players seem hopeful for change, and the devs seem to use that hope as a retention mechanism). Right now it is the only online-fps game that has such a depth of play, a large and rewarding competitive e-sports scene, and high TTK where I can out-mechanic people. Some games offer a similar experience but don't come with the whole package ex. Quake Champions is rewarding to play, but doesn't have the vibrant competitive scene that Overwatch has anymore. The competitive scene in Overwatch created a generation of gamers desiring a style of game that is not what the large majority of fps players want, and I think once a game comes along and is able to tick those certain boxes that Overwatch has (like Apex did for a little while, and like no-build Fortnite almost did), a lot of people might decide to switch.
I realize the subjectivity in this, but I think there will be quite a few people who feel at least somewhat the same as I do.
Loot boxes in overwatch weren’t even that bad tbh, I never spent any money & was able to unlock everything for every character lol
I just mostly miss the fun of opening them too
As a free to play OW2 player id be ok with loot boxes coming back into the free battle pass at a chance at some decent cosmetics as to gauranteed in the paid battle pass, and only if the lootboxes stayed in the free battle pass and werent their own microtransaction
6:39 hey i was a broke high schooler opening free crates i never signed up for the only thing worse non stop battlepasses
I haven’t really seen Day 1 DLC in a while, but I do know Paradox Interactive has released games with DLC already in the works and being planned
Yeah that's just about the only way to release dlc nowadays. If you wait til it releases, see if there's a desire for a dlc and then start planning it by the time the dlc is ready the hype for the game will have died and the dlc will flop
Me patiently waiting for dragon Ball sparking zero with a Kool-Aid smile
oh yeah i’ve definitely been feeling it i used to play hours everyday playing games now i go weeks not playing it feels so wrong with the amount of content going on but i also feel like thats the problem its happening in other community’s like the beauty community where every brand and person wants a piece of the success threw ridiculous prices questionable collaborations and new brands within the spaces it doesn’t feel genuine anymore
Your right my kids only play indie games they would rather get two cheaper games then one of the big titles
"Gaming isnt fun anymore"
- Person who only plays shooters and sports game
I play everything and agree the shit is dying. 1 simple word they call greed
@@300WalkClearly you dont play Fromsoft games
Indie games have been popping off lately, and they're honestly way more fun
For example, my all time favorite game is Deep Rock Galactic, its so much fun and while it is live service, theres no fomo and everything is free after you buy the game (except cosmetic dlc, but thats cosmetic)
I felt this way until I realised that all I was doing is gaming and trying to find happiness in it and I was actually just very unhappy with every other aspect in my life. I spent a year changing that and now I have more fun gaming than I ever have before
Something to consider as well, 90s and 80s kids have grown up, less time to play and if a game simply doesn't catch your curiousity ASAP, you don't really want to waste your time with it.
I still enjoy lots of video games, I just wish I have more time and energy as I did in my adolescence.
Its because despite developer's best efforts they have yet to develop a game that makes you 11 years old again during summer vacation next question
city of tears theme playing at the end of the video jumpscared me. love hollow knight
I have a lot of games and play just a handful because of how some games are becoming.
Now its profits without the competition of fun and now most people dont know that indi games exist outside of AAA. Which is sad because people dont get to find games like hades or slay the spire. They are stuck with 2042 and redfall.
Single player games >>>> live service. Thats the first issue. But i agree with most of this. But as an rpg fan im eating well. DATV no sign up, no mtx, offline, single player coming this fall.
The start of microtransactions started with Skylanders
I've been feeling more and more drained with today's games, myself
The last game I played that released recently was Bayonetta 3 and that was years ago
Every other game I bought recently are older titles (Doom 3 ftw) or indie titles (DUSK ftw)
I always find it weird when people say video games make more money than the music and movie industry. Kind of duh when a game costs 60 or 70 bucks and a movie ticket costs around 15 ish depending on where you live. Maybe that’s simplifying but just my thoughts
There's a lot of contradictions in the gaming industry and gaming culture. 3 things stick out to me: the self-fulfilling prophecy of focusing on player numbers, the disdain for paid games that aren't single-player, and the blind hatred of microtransactions in free2play games.
The most egregious Player Numbers contradiction was for Elden Ring. So many articles about how Elden Ring lost X% of its players. Aren't we supposed to want games where we buy it, play it to completion, and then move on to the next one? I grow tired of the articles talking about Steam Player Numbers dropping 1 or 2 months after a game's launch. They're so counter-productive. They aren't indicative of a game's success or popularity.
The latest example of number 2 is Concord. It isn't even out yet and people are complaining about it not being free (it'll be $40 like Overwatch in 2016)
For number 3, I will always remember the post-launch feedback for Star Wars Squadrons. It was a paid game that had no post-launch roadmap. The players wanted more content updates, but there were no microtransactions to fund those updates. I wish more gamers would understand the purpose of microtransactions and would therefore complain about the implementations rather than their existence.
The reason why gaming isn’t fun is bc them businesses models and how it impacts the content of those games!!
I'm gonna say this before watching the video to see if my opinion changes:
people changed, wanting always more and more. it went from this "it's a nice hobby" to "it's an addiction". most often than not, people play out of habit instead of pleasure, similar to smoking
games went from: fun stories and engaging gameplay, to FOMO machines that makes everything hard to obtain, leaning even more into the addiction aspect of it
I myself never got addicted to any game. I bought a playstation because I like to play and 100% single player games, something sony does very well
Gaming isn't a passion for me, or a habit, so it's still fun. Games went from this fun hobby you can do anytime, to a chore that you have some dopamine release
People are more distant, relationships are harder to form, cheating is very prevalent nowdays, jobs are boring or not fulfilling so the only constant in some people's lives is videogames, and even the videogames are underperforming, or being volatile as entertainment or safe space.
I myself stay at home because I often get disappointed with the bad company I find, and videogame were a saving grace for me. these days, it's boring. I have a lot of different activities, and videogames are one of them, but if I lost my console, I wouldn't be THAT affected
I have work, my violin, the gym, and I don't want to PLAY a chore when I get back home
This guy has Ape Escape as his wallpaper 🥲 the memories it brings back. Such a difficult and satisfying game at the time...
Also. It's gotta be mobile games that make all the money, right?
Gaming aint a hobby anymore, its a business, ESPECIALLY when addressing multiplayer games. Single player games never fell off and honestly have risen higher and higher….in price and gameplay. Your fav new game is either 70$ and/or constantly hounding you for MORE MONEY, *cough* Destiny. Ima say it again and again and again, FORTNITE RUINED MULTIPLAYER with that goddam battlepass strategy. The CoD Black Ops 3 supply drop system was the greatest content model in history idc. Sbmm is a runner up, aint nobody tryna come home from work and sweat they ass off to go 22-18 every game and lose, outside of a ranked/comp mode. And finally this “Free to download” but littered with paywall content is the laziest and greediest strategy.
“Make mid product”
“Release new partial content”
“Content has no substance but lures new ppl to spend $ on cosmetics and progress instead of playing through game and earning for free BECAUSE IT TAKES MONTHS COMPARED TO DROPPING 5$”
I think Internet, where it showcases more toxicity and complain rather than positive energy, plays a big role too. When you start seeing these negative posts about gaming, just like you watching this video, you'll be subconsciously thinking the gaming industry is desperate. Because nowadays information can be delivered so easily and fast, and people focus way too much on the commentaries instead of simply playing the game, the FUN part of each game, which still exists, is way harder for players to discover than it used to be. Imo the quick solution is to play more singleplayer games instead of online. That way you'll concentrate more on the game itself instead of other player's reaction or judgement.
I think people also tend to get really caught up in sunk cost fallacy due to the micro transaction models these games set up. It’s much less painful to quit playing a game you spent $60 for once a long time ago, than a game you’ve spent an incalculable and large sum of money over time on. Battle Passes are super unhealthy for all the reasons people tend to talk about, but they also tend to make you feel forced to keep playing to finish the pass and get your money’s worth. The amount of time required to finish most Battle Passes is really bad for the players’ long term enjoyment; it burns you out.
This is why I just about exclusively play Nintendo and indie titles, and even then they've taken steps towards the other modern gaming trends like lootbox mechanics in mobile titles and releasing half baked games full price under a "we'll update it later!" Mindset that luckily a lot of people have pushed back against. Nintendo is also really good at having diversity without any sense of it feeling like pandering, cause I'm sorry but Solider 76 exclusively felt like a pander decision and I'm a bi dude (maybe he was maybe he wasn't, IDK but I maybe wouldnt feel that way if Blizzard didn't make a character diversity wheel that turns diversity into the checklist we all kinda already saw).
Just remember guys, if you ever feel like buying into these shitty practices like overpriced skins and battle passes you have to dedicate a grind towards (meaning you're paying to work), hollow knight is a $15 masterpiece with a lot of content and its still cheaper than a whole ass skin.
It's time to ban in-app purchases. From battle passes, to skins, to in game currencies. Make these devs compete for fun factor again.
I cant wait for that to happen so game companies can all go back to copying CoDs formula of releasing a 70 dollar update every year
We will eventually have single player experiences & rpgs & indie games sit at the top once again. Its already been showing signs of it happening. A lot of multiplayer games have started to die off besides for people who wanna play with friends. They are too frustrating & money hungry for general consumers anymore.
My take on why games ain’t fun is because people want more to do in it so they add battlepass and skins and gun take longer to do because it makes people play it for longer
overwatch lot box vs what we have now, not even close, it's so much worse now
Helldivers 2 saved my love for gaming.
It's the time for us to play games to have fun, not to be tryharders or skin collectors, to just be silly with your friends or make friends with random people. I'm tired of playing competitively honestly
And also, the less i play games the more fun they become for me
9:00 my god, and then Freedo said literally the opposite in his "flat earth" video
And then you wonder why people cheat., but on a serious note.. yeah it’s hard to compete with people that play for 12 hours a day when I’m exhausted from my 9 hour shift in retail.
there is a place for both types of games the problem is everyone is going to the live service mode more and more and a person can have 1 maybe 2 of those games to play they cant play every game like that
I never bought loot boxes. I just like em more than battle pass
It's because before games felt like they were made for their consumers to enjoy. Now, it just feels like they're made to nickel and dime their consumers. There are too many online live service games and single player games with ridiculous micro transactions. I honestly thing gaming would be better if we went back to the "One and Done" era where you simply play a game once and enjoy it, and that's it.
If you want a fun and relatively short game that's got good humour and good gameplay, I'd recommend High on Life.
There is no other explanation other than Money. It will always be money, the answer will never be anything other than money when operating a business under capitalism. Executives will drive once great businesses into the shitter if they can just squeeze out more profit.
I think competitive/ranked modes kind of ruined some games for a lot of people, you used to either only play with friends, or if you wanted to get better the end goal was being the best in your local circles. Most ranked games lost the sense of community and now you just sit at home grinding the same thing over and over with people you don't know and get frustrated and burned out when you realize being the best at it is no longer possible.
Theres probably a lot of people who enjoy that, but me personally hate ranked modes as a whole, or at least I never play ranked in team based games.
So many of these games suck, but then a game like Tears of the Kingdom comes along, with sandboxy physics and somehow minimum glitches too.
BLIZZARD OWES ME 641 LOOT BOXES FOR OPENING ALL MINE WHEN OW2 DROPPED I WONT FORGET IT DAMMIT
It's really funny because of the ending music but Hollow Knight, for me, is an amazing example of a game being fun years later. I still play it today and it's made by an Indie dev. I think Indie games are going to take a massive jump into popularity because they offer a better experience, most of them don't treat their fanbases as wallets, and they try and make good games and not good stores.
I deleted the game a week ago. It’s just so stale.
when i strted playing single player story games i got so much more enjoyment out of video games
I have honestly gotten so sick of cod, fort , and overwatch where i switch different type of fps like hell let loose, ready or not, and realistic fps game and me an the guys are having an even bigger blast ghen before. i definitely recommend those types of games to try out but thats just my opinion.
ill be honest, at heart i still consider myself a gamer but reality is I turn on my console maybe once a week, maybe. The games i still play are "old" games. i get excited about titles on the horizon but when they launch they are embroiled in controversy, are unfinished and incomplete, or just plain uninteresting and bad. I still hope gaming wins me back but right now its just too expensive and the products dont speak to me like they used to. feels bad.