Current Events > why is almost every game dead?

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outside of the top of the top games and classic multiplayer staples, every game nowadays takes a ton of time to find matches. and most of them have shit matchmaking anyway.

what gives?

disvuss

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disvuss

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There are more games now than ever before

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ideas ran out

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Nah, its probably your internet have you tried turning it off and back on?

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Antifar posted...

There are more games now than ever before

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Antifar posted...

There are more games now than ever before

I mean obviously since the amount of games doesn't decrease

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tf games are you playin

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I prefer couch multiplayer tbh. Not seeing who you're playing with sucks.
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Antifar posted...

There are more games now than ever before

So fewer people to make up playerbases for each + f2p models and phone garbage eating an enormous chunk out of potential players? Similar to TC's problem?

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*Looks at Steam status*

Nope, nothing unusual

Single player will always be there.

Antifar posted...

There are more games now than ever before

there are more people now than ever before

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They're not. You're just not playing the popular games anymore.

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Gobstoppers12 posted...

They're not. You're just not playing the popular games anymore.

so you cant read

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Swagnet0 posted...

so you cant read

...I mean, that's kind of how games have always worked...?

The popular ones have people, the less popular ones have fewer people. Why is this even a topic? lol

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because it didnt used to be like that. derp

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Swagnet0 posted...

because it didnt used to be like that. derp

I mean...yeah it did. You must not have played many unpopular games back in the day, lol

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more like, i have, lol

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let's get back on topic please.

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the normies all flock to bad games

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People have less friends than they used to

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Swagnet0 posted...

more like, i have, lol

Which games are you talking about? What's an example of an unpopular game you played back in the day, and how is it different from today? Which games are you playing in the modern day that you can't find games in?

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yeah, yall need to stay in school

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The amount of new gamers is not making up for the amount of new games.

Consider Call of Duty for instance. Say there are 7 billion people on the planet, and say they are all gamers that are willing to equally divide themselves up for each game out there (not realistic as the newer games would get more of the audience but bear with me). The first Cod, all 7 billion people play it. The second CoD, there are now 100 million new people, and 3.55 billion people play it while 3.55 billion people play the first one. The 3rd Cod, 100 million more people are now gamers and about 2.4 billion people play each one.

Now consider that in reality, the new games take up most of those gamers, more than one big game comes out each year to take away players, people stop playing video-games, and we don't have nearly as much as 7 billion gamers in the world. Even a new game will eventually get overlooked as soon as the next one comes. Sure, more people are here than 10 years ago, but the amount of games has outpaced the amount of people per games.

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PiOverlord posted...

The amount of new gamers is not making up for the amount of new games.

Consider Call of Duty for instance. Say there are 7 billion people on the planet, and say they are all gamers that are willing to equally divide themselves up for each game out there (not realistic as the newer games would get more of the audience but bear with me). The first Cod, all 7 billion people play it. The second CoD, there are now 100 million new people, and 3.55 billion people play it while 3.55 billion people play the first one. The 3rd Cod, 100 million more people are now gamers and about 2.4 billion people play each one.

Now consider that in reality, the new games take up most of those gamers, more than one big game comes out each year to take away players, people stop playing video-games, and we don't have nearly as much as 7 billion gamers in the world. Even a new game will eventually get overlooked as soon as the next one comes. Sure, more people are here than 10 years ago, but the amount of games has outpaced the amount of people per games.

thank you for actually thinking

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Swagnet0 posted...

thank you for actually thinking

I asked you a couple of questions in post #24. Could you please clarify some details so we have any fucking idea what you're really talking about?

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Developers stop updating and supporting the game in favor of making a new one. For Co-op/PvE games, this means you get stuck doing the same thing over and over and eventually get bored, for PvP games, you end up with mass of hardcores who perfect their skills, strategies, and 'the meta' and push out the lower tier players while chasing away any newcomers who can't compete on their level.


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i love when people get mad at others for being good at something.

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Gamers play recent games.

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GMAK2442 posted...

Gamers play recent games.

No!

A lot of recent releases have been DOA.

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Antifar posted...

There are more games now than ever before

This. Although the quality of a lot of series has diminished in certain ways over time a lot have also improved and there are more good games out to potentially play than ever before.