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Let's pinpoint and discuss where everything went wrong with gaming
Christopher Foster
James Watson
when smartphones became a thing the damage became irreversable.
Xavier Rodriguez
Right here.
Christopher Richardson
2007
Nicholas Williams
hyper normalfags
John Wilson
>1985
Take me back.
Connor Wilson
2006 but the cancer did already set in when Microsoft entered the industry with the Xbox, the growth of mobile is irrelevant since it happened way after that.
Colton Rogers
The PS1 and FF7 brought the masses in. Don't tell me that didn't happen, I lived through suddenly everyone in my school becoming a "gamer" and not knowing FFs before 7 existed. These same new gamers would go on to be Halo obsessed xbox kiddies.
Zachary Nelson
No its didnt get predatory/cancerous until 2007. Iphone brought in the avg normie into mobile "gaming" that brought microtransactions to everything.
Jose Young
>we are further away from the first smartphone than the first smartphone is from Doom
Leo Morris
It brought the masses in because it was and still is a great game, in these days the games that the masses play are absolute garbage with no redeeming qualities, they play them because its impossible for them to escape the massive marketing campaigns.
Caleb Brooks
Benign tumors sometimes become cancerous if not excised.
Levi Mitchell
2012
Leo Fisher
>the second minecraft and angry birds hit the field.
Brayden Martin
Somewhere between 2004 and 2007.
Ironically enough, that same period could also be considered the golden age of modern video games.
Hudson Rodriguez
>It's only $3 lol
>you don't have to buy it
>slippery slope isn't real
Matthew Williams
Bethesda is cancer and always has been, they are only slightly less shitty than let's say EA or Activision-Blizzard because at least they sell their games mostly compete and aren't developing games with lootcrates in mind or whatever the fuck people gamble on nowadays.
Aiden Wood
Oh wait forgot about Fallout 76, they are the same cancer as EA then.
Angel Powell
>consoles have been flat for 20 years
>PC has barely kept up with inflation
and we get told gaming is alive
Dominic Allen
This, and everyone having easy access to the internet via said smartphones.
Noah Garcia
I would narrow that down to 2006-2007
>Horse armor heralds the age of MTX
>Burning Crusade begins the age of endlessly sustained soulless live service games
>The iPhone initiates the collapse of western society
Owen Davis
Constant growth is what got us here in the first place. Plateauing is fine.
Bentley Price
The Jews.