This Report PROVES The Gaming Industry Is Broken

If you really think about it. If the company is rewarded for just sellingnyou a short game. They will make you a good experience.

If they make money from you playing the game more andbhopefully buying microtransations. They will drag the game out and try to keep you engaged in hopes your going to spend alot.

I play a game called need for speed unbound. I didnt play it that kuch after beating the story. Ill just come back to it every once in a while. But recently added the speed pass to singleplayer mode. Now im playing the game way more and i feel like i got my moneys worth a year and a half after launch. Which you could consider a good thing or a bad thing. I perfer it because other wise i would have just dropped the game at some point.

The last thing on my mind when deciding to buy a game is price. I would pay $100 for a good game. I am also confident that bugs will be patched out by competent publishers and developers that I trust. Trust is the issue. I don’t trust many of the big developers out there. I will NEVER participate in a live service game. Give me a good AA single player, souls-like, narrative driven, linear game and I will buy it all day long. I just beat Lies of P and am going to start on Remnant 2 soon. I’m done with tedious collect-a-thon “open world” games. I couldn’t finish Fallout 4 or Mass Effect Andromeda . Maybe it’s just me but the precision combat of souls-like games is all I ever want to play anymore. Let’s flesh out that genre some. Maybe it’s just me.

I miss non buggy, complete single player games that don’t cost a lot. Good writing that doesn’t pander helps.

I’ve gone back to playing older generation games as I feel I get more enjoyment out of them. Currently battling through my massive back log and playing Alien Isolation, 5 hours in and it’s amazing!

best years were behind us
the devs that made good products either left their brand making those brands worse or just don't work in the industry anymore, sure there's indies but to avoid microtransactions, identity politics, egregious unfinished game design and live service you have to partly avoid that too

a cheaper game is always better than a over priced $70 one for $400 mil budget game that is just worse, with no appealing character or character design while their gameplay is throttled for mtx and "retention"

its no surprise people play older titles and always ask for their return

New games cost too much until they are old games. I see no reason to pay 70 dollars today when a year from now I can buy it for 15. It's still new to me when I play it.

me, still regularly playing fallout 4, wondering how on earth bad game, after bad game after bad game, people are still playing old games

For me, I'm trying to clear out my backlog and most games coming out recently are 100+ hours and I rarely have the time or interest to drive into something that time-consuming with so many other good games in my library or subscription service to play

I always give a game a year minimum to breathe before I buy it. By the end of the year it should be cheaper and /or complete and coupled with DLC (the actual rest of the game)

Live service games are killing the industry because some games are trash because of lack of resources and others have potential but are abandoned for the next attempt to make the new Fortnite clone

game companies are telling me that I, a straight white man, am not their intended audience. so I make sure to not offend them and give them my money

The best thing about all this, the amount of the current available older and indie games, be it normal bought in a store or sailing the seas, is so incrediblly massive that, unless you are one of those people that chases trends, you will never have a Moment where you have nothing to play. The last 40 years made sure of that.

1. Bad Stories, terrible/agenda based writing and Dialogue

2. Terrible Characters or no existent

3. No creativity, American and some foreign companies putting out the same crap.

4. LGBTQI crap littered/Mitch characters(man-bih)/weird sex scenes, fugly women

5. Can lose access to my game with no refund

6. Greedy Corpos

7. Lazy GDs ( Asian companies are dunking on them)

8. DEI and racist against WM. Suppose to end rascism not pass the torch.

The list goes on.

Baldur’s Gate 3, Tears of the Kingdom and Starfield (for better or worse) definitely became water cooler games last year.

I'll never go live service. Ever.

Price, quality, developers hatred for gamers and forced politics. I could think of a few reasons

Outside of first party Nintendo games i tend to stick to playing/buying older games, remasters/remakes and indie games. This is partly due to the fact that they don't shove their agenda, themes and beliefs in your face.

This is only down to money

The reason switch is less effected is because people buy them for their kids, most people are going to prioritise buying new things for their kids before themselves.

Publishers are going look at this and pick up the completely wrong conclusion, the depressing thing is, we all know that they are going to do this already and maoe things worse.

Rant over 😅

and you know … i was gonna preorder star wars outlaws … but its only available on the Ubisoft+ Platform (which gamers know is absolute trash) and they have the audacity to show a cool moment with Jabba in the trailer and be like 'hey — you wanna relive that nostalgia with han in carbonite in jabbas palace?? then open your wallet please' as its content related to the 'season pass dlc content you have to pay extra for

i play 'older games because i live on government assistance in canada and as such have an extremely limited budget for games i can rarely afford the $90CAD or more price tag for new games and so ill wishlist them and wait for 3 or more years until they are at a steep enough discount that i can actually afford them whether on sale or not

Games l would want to reach for atm –
Fallout new Vegas
Mad max
Skyrim
Dead space (360)

Most companies chase, few discover/rediscover a genre. There is a reason most are not succesful

My thing is games just are not good. Look at the achievements and less than 30% of players end up finishing a game, I don't mean 100% but just beating the main campaign or the last mission. I don't have the money to spend on a full priced game that I'm not getting the full game u less I buy the special or ultimate edition to just play a buggy not finished game. I'm tired of having to wait a year to play a game so I don't feel like I was robbed if I played it day one. I also think streamers and pro players have just ruined it the same way movies have been ruined bc now its about politics and making the most money. I'd bet money that GTA didnt start as a money grab. R* just made a great game and improved from that

Company culture actually has a huge impact on the games i buy as well. Do they have constant drama about working employees too hard or laying people off. Also good single player games will be the rare thing from now on. And i will happily be playing my backlog

Just read about some "spiritual successor" of Freelancer so I did them the favor of not bothering them while they're busy with all that. I'm just happily playing my own copy of Freelancer again, turns out a 20 year old game runs great on a 10 year old PC.

This video gets something wrong right off the bat. They said games are more expensive than ever. Completely false adjusted for inflation they should be almost 90 dollars. Games are still way cheaper than they should be. MK 3 and a lot of RPGs back in the day were $100.

Games don't need to be on physical media in any way. But what should be a rule by law is, that a game remains playable even if the service closes down (e.g. Steam closes, then my copies of the games I bought have to continue to work). For Multiplayer that means, if they shut down the servers, they have to release a server binary to be able to host it locally as it has been the case in the past (e.g. Unreal Tournament stuff like that).

Of course they are, they're working through their backlog. 😂

If i want to be told i'm racist or sexist just for being white or male i'll go on Tumblr. I'm certainly not paying some idiot activist dev with a man bun or broccoli haircut £75 for the privilege.

Older games: Full, fulfilling, stable, far less diversity shite and blatant anti-white, misandrist propaganda, better gameplay and story, more reasonable DLC, reasonable price, greater accessibility.

New games: Cut up to sell separately, unfair DRM harming gameplay, prioritises diversity and gender propaganda, poor gameplay, lying devs deleting negative reviews, poorer gameplay than last generation and racists and gender propaganda shovelled in at the expense of the story, ridiculous DLC that charges for practically everything or carves up the game to sell separately, unnecessary bundled versus modes, highest price possible even when on a remaster, always online restrictions, often released broken or unstable, poorly optimised.

One big reason gamers aren’t buying new games is a lot of the new games just do enough to pass the eye test. They look spectacular like Spiderman 2 for example, it gets passing scores but it’s not fun & the story really wasn’t good after all the hype it generated toward release died down. There are SO many games like that now where the marketing builds up massive hype and the game itself doesn’t deliver the experience the developer promised cuz they only want the $$ it’ll bring in. Ragnarok was good but it’s another one that wasn’t what we thought it would be.. yeah I said it! You guys should really be talking about why developers who now have more access to the best gaming technology we’ve had to date, are less creative? Making games that aren’t fun? And are using budgets that balloon into the millions only to deliver a lackluster experience? PS1/PS2 had catalogs of GREAT QUALITY games. PS5 been out a few years now and may not have a top 25

There some still good, even great, games

These guys's commentary has improved a lot.

I’m currently playing Champions of Norrath:Return to Arms that I purchased for $60 a few weeks ago on my modded PS2.

Me and those like me are not going to show up on the online statistics. I tend to player older single player games and have a several that I regularly replay every few years.

New games just don’t appeal to me like they did 10+ years ago. They were higher quality, weren’t preachy, no DEI bs, and were just plain old fashioned fun to play!

The problem is that publishers are no longer content with the $70.00 of selling the game. They want that sweet micro transaction money.

Just rebought a 360 to play marvel ultimate alliance 1and 2. Haven't sat this long for a gaming session in years

Jender dementia programming in new games is a hard pass, let alone women characters that don’t have boobs.

Stop the gay BS , Inclusivity crap
And the half assed live service
And then we’ll see

Live service are starting to die.. unless done well look at what's being played now

I need to to be an ally, I have no desire to be a woman, I don’t care about people who loan tattered naturally disadvantaged

Show me what you’re made of and I’ll want you to play someone who inspires me with rage testosterone and heroism

Modern games are soy infused morons. Kinda like half your presenters

2023 wasn’t that great. Only seems better than average cause the last 5 years before it weren’t exactly doing well with games.