From gamewithabrain.com comes a list of reasons casual gamers dislike certain hardcore gamers and games:
"Sure, a lot of the mistrust between gamers and non-gamers comes from simple miscommunication, but that doesn't mean some points aren't valid. Below are 25 popular (and not so popular) reasons why gamers annoy those who don't play games."
Excerpts:
"I'm on a strange alien world stranded alone with only an artificial intelligence program to keep me company? Yes, that's riveting. Wait, there's a second, even more dangerous alien race out there? Big shocking twist there!"
"Look, the only clans I know of are in Braveheart and Mississippi Burning. I don't want to join either. I think it's great you have a little club of online friends to play games with, but I mostly quit joining clubs when I graduated high school. No offense."
"Sure, it can play Blu-Rays, but I'm not a movie nerd, either. $600 is an awful lot to blow on something to play video games, and spending $2,000 on eBay for the same $600 system is even weirder. There's a good reason the Wii is the best selling system."
Microsoft just posted the third quarter of its 2024 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $61.9 billion in revenue and a net income of $21.9 billion during Q3. Revenue is up 17 percent, and net income has increased by 20 percent.
Xbox content + services up 62% while hardware down 31%... seems about right with the way they tout you don't need the hardware to play. People can play on their phones or smart tv or other means. I don't hardly play on my consoles directly since getting devices like the logitech g-cloud and ps portal. Which is to also say I have been playing more digital than physical because of these devices.
Too expensive hardware when others offer the same or more for less? Good work, Green Team.
"Despite some early successes for Xbox games on rival platforms, Xbox hardware is down by a massive 31 percent this quarter."
"Without Activision Blizzard, Microsoft’s overall gaming revenue would have actually declined this quarter."
"Xbox content and services would have only been up a single percent without Activision Blizzard..."
"It looks like next quarter is going to be a similar story for gaming at Microsoft, too."
That is crazy... so A/B/K is carrying the whole Xbox gaming.
Oh and Microsoft will be fine. Windows, Office and Cloud are growing with each pc purchase.
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
GL compiles a list of some of the most mind-blowing video game narrative twists in recent memory, from The Last of Us to Outer Wilds
With articles like these cant you tag the games mentioned so that we can know ahead of time if there’s a spoiler to avoid?
Not clicking on your article otherwise.
the other way around
I think that attracting more non-gamers to the fold is a good thing (yes even if it is with Wii Fit....). I'm in my thirties and most of the people around me weren't interested in gaming, but only recently if the games are accessible enough, they are interested and enjoy it.
I think games shouldn't only cater to the hardcore and should try to go for as many as possible by having simpler control schemes to begin with but different difficulty levels. Or some for hardcore and some for both, as seems to be increasingly happening. Publishers want money...way to get money is to make more gamers out of non-gamers.
All this online focus and complicated menu or button systems will just turn non-gamers off from even trying...which is a shame because today's games are amazing.
You know what annoys me?
'...the only clans I know of are in Braveheart and Mississippi Burning. I don’t want to join either.'
lol
''Game stories bore me.''
Well I guess you're right if you were playing Halo and Madden NFL but many games surpass movies in terms of story
the whole article is full of ignorance