speak with your wallet if you feel unheard

[AnimalsALot]

Just gonna drop this study here again. I personally don't like the direction the game is heading but it makes sense from this viewpoint if this research is anything to stand by. More and more gamers aren't interested in deep thinking or complex strategy and it's been on a downward trend for like 10 years.

https://quanticfoundry.com/2024/05/21/strategy-decline/
Gamers Have Become Less Interested in Strategic Thinking and Planning

Gamers ARE getting stupider

[Niroken]

Gamers ARE getting stupider

Personally I don't put that all of the people playing the games. Why make harder/intelligent game design when you can get the player hooked on spending with micro-transactions for a quick dopamine rush.

[Rekh]

Gamers ARE getting stupider

Not gamers, society. But I can't blame them, when they're injected with 50+ patogens before they're 5 years old it makes sense.

[Vyrerus]

Just gonna drop this study here again. I personally don't like the direction the game is heading but it makes sense from this viewpoint if this research is anything to stand by. More and more gamers aren't interested in deep thinking or complex strategy and it's been on a downward trend for like 10 years.

https://quanticfoundry.com/2024/05/21/strategy-decline/
Gamers Have Become Less Interested in Strategic Thinking and Planning

Nah, that study is bunk. They don't actually present the same set of gamers to us, and there's no control group either.

Reality is that gaming hit the mainstream in the early 00s, and it's been getting controlled more and more by suits and distributed and made for the lowest common denominator of people.

Education and literacy levels are also trending downwards. Scholarly and intelligence oriented pursuits have never been popular. This, "trend" as they call it is just indicative of both that and human nature on a large scale.

People not only are able to read less, they are wanting to not read at all. Gaming is downstream of that.

Like heck, it's been a thing since this game came out, "Did you read your tooltips?" Common answer: "Not really."

[AnimalsALot]

lowest common denominator of people

Playing FF14 is a good way to see how the other half of the population lives

[AlucaDragonheart]

The thing is, we don't want the jobs to be extremely difficult or whatever, we just want them to be unique and fun to play, that's all. All the tanks are basically Warrior clones now, with the only difference between them, is which weapon type do you prefer to use.

[NegativeS]

Telling an MMO player to vote with their wallet is like telling an American to stop drinking soda. You can't. It's like crack to them, by design, because the only people still supporting the industry are addicts.

Source: I'm American

[Boblawblah]

Telling an MMO player to vote with their wallet is like telling an American to stop drinking soda. You can't. It's like crack to them, by design, because the only people still supporting the industry are addicts.

Source: I'm American

This combined with sunk cost fallacy. People can't help themselves. I've seen the same people complaining about the same things for YEARS, and they'll never leave. Which hey, it's their money, so fair enough.

[AnimalsALot]

This combined with sunk cost fallacy. People can't help themselves. I've seen the same people complaining about the same things for YEARS, and they'll never leave. Which hey, it's their money, so fair enough.

That's like the only thing you ever say here rofl

[Boblawblah]

That's like the only thing you ever say here rofl

Let's see..healer level 90: check. all crafters/gathers 90: check.

You're the last person to harp on someone for being a broken record. I see you're ramping up the farm for DT though, welcome back.