How it used to be...

[Maneesha]

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I appreciate that you take your time and read through longer post and also encouraging others to take their take to write longer texts or expressing themselves.

For me its not only the part of writing longer texts and taking more time, its true i dislike receiving a "tl;dr" which then feels like i wasted my time expressing my thoughts/opinion, but also i try not to "ramble" and try to stay on topic, not saying you did any of those (just to be clear). Yes i could have gone into more detail about some stuff, but decided not to in fear of going off-topic and giving the impression of rambling. Some of those would have included the change in perception regarding gaming. It was always seen as something for the younger folks and had, and still has to a certain degree, the stigmata of being for people without work or real life, the nerds and so on. Since gaming is not anymore a niche thing to do, but more mainstream, it brings also more people to it,which can also mean more "bad apples", also a lot of those not having much time due to real life obligations and responsibilities, but still wanting to progress and reach the same "highs" as those who actually have more time and invest much more to pursue their in-game goal or fame.

Of course developers/publishers would actually want to satisfy them, especially if those people are also the ones holding more "buyers" power then a school kid or a student.So games become more "casual", which is good and bad, like everything and depend on the point of view. Remember when everyone knew mmorpgs are a huge time investment and you simply could not play them for an hour or two and expect any real progression, when people were aware they will have to invest hundreds if not thousands of hours to only reach the max level and that this was only a small portion of the game? Yes gone are those days, simply because the targeted audience and the costs to develop and expected profits for a game have gone way up, at least the "AAA" quality stuff, indies are a different topic, but since i rarely play any of those i have no opinion on those.

Another reason why i try to not write long texts is simply because english is a foreign language for me and i am not very confident in my proficiency in it, it takes a long time to write a text with whom i am satisfied and think i expressed my self clearly.


PS:I share a lot of your views regarding social media, the "lack of time" people always express and so on.