I'm so confused. Men are dropping out of the workforce and dropping out of video games? Wtf are they even doing all day?

I'm so confused. Men are dropping out of the workforce and dropping out of video games? Wtf are they even doing all day?

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laying in bed in silence staring at the ceiling.

>slight correction after continual growth for ~7 years
>panic

talking to women while working part time

zooms just watch youtube playthroughs instead because it's all cutscenes anyway and pretend they played the game.

Gardening. Reading. Building. Lifting. Learning. Thinking.

They're not stopping video games, they're just not buying the $70 AAA title of the year. (with $30 day-one DLC)

no one has any fucking money

anime, drugs, playing their backlog of gaymes

they're watching other people play games

masturbating and smoking weed

So it blew up by 26% because of Covid then went 1.2% below that in the previous year? It just sounds like it hit a little bubble.

Combination of everything said. No one has any money, no games are worth buying that you can't just watch playthroughs of on youtube, tons of people are becoming old men who are sick of everything

no, men aren't buying as many shitty new video games anymore. Most of the games published nowadays are maybe 30% completed and you are the beta tester after paying 80 euros. No wonder it has finally slowed down after 10 years of dumbster fire.

Maybe they finally understand that you need a good game first to fill it with cosmetic microtransactions, people aren't going to play just to pay you lmao. Somehow Valve managed to start the lootbox craze on pc and literally make the first "battlepass" and companies somehow fail to copy this guarenteed money maker because they fucking started skipping the game.

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They're playing old video games. retro market has been booming.

Pretty much, yeah. I still spend a good amount of money on Steam and GOG but I buy maybe 1-2 AAA titles a year, if even that.
I don't know if Horizon: Zero Dawn counts as AAA but that was the most recent big title I actually liked.
Even then, these games don't really hold a candle against the Factorios and Stardew Valleys... plus, I find myself retreating more and more to older libraries from the PS1 and PS2.
Lots of cool RPGs I missed as a kid, why shouldn't I give them a go now?

Getting swole and redpilled

>Games are gonna sell 10 million copies instead of 12 million copies
Poor companies
The one you just posted makes 25 billion USD in profit a year

>people are finally realizing that games are getting worse
Took long enough

I've gotten so many free games from the Epic store I haven't felt like buying anything in ages

reading classic literature

fighting off suicidal ideation

Really aren't most of the games people playing pretty legacy at this point?

>Most popular games
PUBG. ...
Fortnite Battle Royale. ...
Apex Legends. ...
League of Legends (LOL) ...
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS: GO) ...
Hearthstone. ...
Minecraft. ...
DOTA 2.

I started to notice the trend in my lifetime. People never used to really play "old games", everyone was playing something released within the last 1-4 years typically. Nowadays people play ancient shit like minecraft which is well over a decade old.

So I think people are just still playing old games.

They are killing themsleves and shitposting