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kaboomboom 2022 年 9 月 30 日 上午 6:38
Opinions on the health of the gaming hobby
Are lame marketing tactics meant only to increase profit killing the gaming hobby?

Why? Curious to see what people think.
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I have quit gaming 2022 年 9 月 30 日 上午 6:46 
Gaming has never been so popular. Games like Diablo Immortal are getting over 20 million downloads. For the youngest generation of gamers that are about to get introduced to gaming these tactics will actually START the gaming hobby.

For the older people, who have seen the gaming world change over the years it might indeed be killing the gaming hobby.

It's just how you look at it.
TJ_4874 2022 年 9 月 30 日 上午 7:29 
In my opinion. extremely money hungry games like Diablo Immortal are bad. so they probably are killing the gaming hobby.

more games need to be like deep rock galactic no microtransactions, very fun, extremely small knowledge of it, battle pass with no money needed to get the good stuff and funny dwarf man.

who doesn't like funny dwarf man?
J4MESOX4D 2022 年 9 月 30 日 上午 8:39 
Most AAA publishers are out to make as much money as possible regardless of how good the product is. Player retention and spend means way more to them and their bottom line than making a game that will go down in history and that the devs can be proud of.

Younger gamers probably will probably grow up accustomed to this standard whereas I saw the more golden age of PC gaming in the mid-to-late 90's and early 2000's where ethics, industry and standards were wholly different.

Gaming as a whole is more lucrative, popular and expansive than ever but IMO it's certainly not better and there have been way too many scummy practices and disappointing games over the years. Also outgrowing gaming in part is another element that diminishes how I feel about the hobby.
Aachen 2022 年 9 月 30 日 上午 8:43 
引用自 kaboomboom
Are lame marketing tactics meant only to increase profit killing the gaming hobby? ....

:deeperperiscope: It’d be worthwhile to specify the lame marketing tactics you mean.

As stated though, no, they’re not likely meant to kill the golden goose.
最后由 Aachen 编辑于; 2022 年 9 月 30 日 上午 8:45
Crazy Tiger 2022 年 9 月 30 日 上午 8:44 
I see plenty of good and fun games. It all certainly isn't killing my gaming hobby.
Tito Shivan 2022 年 9 月 30 日 上午 8:46 
Should not be a shocker that people who make games do it so to make money. That's how industries work.

The gaming hobby isn't under any risk of being killed. Sure if all you focus about gaming is an specific subset of it (AAA titles, RTS games, MMORPGs) you'll see ups and downs (even some death maybe). But as a whole gaming is a hobby with a very good health and not running short of things to do in it.
Start_Running 2022 年 9 月 30 日 上午 9:14 
引用自 kaboomboom
Are lame marketing tactics meant only to increase profit killing the gaming hobby?

Why? Curious to see what people think.
Since profit generally comes from increasing reach and uptake, I can't see how more people knowing of and buying games would be a bad thing for the hobby..

The change that has happened is that as the reach and uptake has expanded, so too has the gaming population and as such it has become increasingly more pluralistic. There is now archetypical 'gamer' any more. The industry has grown big enough to have genres, sub-genres, and niches within sub genres.

As a result the Hobby "Feels" like it's breaking down because it's becoming more fragmented from certain perspectives. No gamer has the certainty that to say a game is Good, or Bad because somewghere out there other gamers will push back. MSame for Marketing and Monetization.

From a balanced perspective as a gamer I think we're in a golden age. I have never owned more games than I do now and quite frankltyy i keep seeing new and interesting games to add to my wisghlist.
AmaiAmai 2022 年 9 月 30 日 上午 9:29 
Since 2014 none of the newer games have really interested me. It's quite sad.

Some of my friends say "you just don't like gaming anymore" while spending 1000s on digital nonsense in a game and continuing to play it because of the sunk cost fallacy.

I'm not spending over 10 dollars on a game that is broken, full of bugs, and unfinished when there are millions of games out there to play that cost less than that, are complete, and have more love and care in them. Hell, some games are even FREE and better than the junk they release these days.

If you ask me if gaming is dying, and if microtransactions are excessive, I'd say YES to both and that the industry is headed for disaster. With the global market struggling to avoid crashing, games that push microtransactions have another thing coming.

Those games are going to soon only appeal to the whales as they push scummy marketing, poor balance, and even completely stupid tactics. I mean, seriously, Tales of Arise: Day 1 DLC for STORAGE space on an offline game? wtf?
Aachen 2022 年 9 月 30 日 上午 9:39 
Seems like a cherry.
Third3ye 2022 年 9 月 30 日 下午 2:16 
can we get a new fps title or will steam continue to sell EA fog?
Gus the Crocodile 2022 年 9 月 30 日 下午 2:20 
引用自 kaboomboom
Are lame marketing tactics meant only to increase profit killing the gaming hobby?
No.

People like playing videogames. People are going to keep playing videogames. If one particular thread of marketing strategies gets too egregious people will just play different videogames.
Aachen 2022 年 9 月 30 日 下午 2:23 
引用自 Gus the Crocodile
No.

People like playing videogames. People are going to keep playing videogames. If one particular thread of marketing strategies gets too egregious people will just play different videogames.

:steamthumbsup: Even In a field far more crowded with penny pinchers and bean counters there will be people seeking to simply pursue their art and others trying to have a fun time.
AlienWired 2022 年 9 月 30 日 下午 4:14 
引用自 kaboomboom
Are lame marketing tactics meant only to increase profit killing the gaming hobby?

Why? Curious to see what people think.
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Really depends on the game, doesn't it?

It's like how several years ago I was seeing how "PC gaming is dead"....

LOL!
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