PC, Console Growth To Lag Pre-pandemic Levels as Gamers Clock in Fewer Hours
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PC, Console Growth To Lag Pre-pandemic Levels as Gamers Clock in Fewer Hours
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I have found there's a lot more stuff I can cheaply watch than play. Very high quality material in great abundance. And I already played enough shooters in the 90s. Games are full of ads and grind. Why bother doing something repetitive to get a bit of storytelling when you can just watch a movie?
If I want this, I would put on a movie.
I am a geezer with no kids, but I have friends whose 30-year-olds "boys" live in the basement and play video games all day. I have never played a video game (except like Galaga at the arcade, when that was a new thing) so I don't really understand video games. I mean, I have seen them played in movies and stuff. If I want to have tje joy of hand-eye destruction, I just go get some of my guns and go to an indoor range. Or if I feel like driving an hour, to an outdoor range where automatic weapons and thermit
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I'm glad you have your hobbies. Gaming is just one other hobby, maybe you just needed to get into it when you were younger, I don't know. I'd also say, many gamers also have other hobbies, it's not the only thing that matters, but given the generation gap, they don't always have the money to rent a plane or get a $200 burger (nice humblebrag there).
The biggest difference age makes, I think, is that you know more about what you want, and you have less time. As a kid, I had the whole summer off, I could spend all day on the computer playing. If a game was hard, you'd practice; if it required grinding, you just put in the time. Now? I may have a couple hours an evening, a couple more on the weekend. I don't want to put in 30h of grinding to get through a 35h game. If I know what matters is the 5h of story, that's what I want.
Also I haven't seen actual ads (Coke, cars etc.) in games, unless you're talking mobile games that are based on ads. A "normal" PC / console game may have some product placements, and definitely in-app purchases, but no pop-ups / interruption of the gaming for ads.-
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There's a difference between a grind and a fulfilling game. I'm with the GP. I don't want to put in 30h of grinding to get through a 35h game, but I that doesn't mean I didn't have a wonderful and fulfilling experience drumping well over 100 hours into Baldurs Gate 3, or Oxygen Not Included.
Grind != Game
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Even countries that ban most personal firearm ownership still allow target shooting ranges to operate.
Not everyone likes the same hobbies, and that's okay. You don't need to ban someone else's just because you don't like it.-
Ya, it is important to train the next crop of psychos to lose it and use their "shooting" skills on the people around them.
And the second amendment was written for muzzle loading rifles, not machine guns. It also requires their use as part of a well-regulated militia which these days means the National Guard of your state. So stop believing you are some urban Rambo and drop the faux He-Boy bullshit.
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If you think that's what going to the range is about then you've probably made up your mind and shooting isn't for you. Different strokes for different folks.
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That $200 includes the cost of flying the airplane to the fun destination. The actual burger is about $8.
Most of the "kids" I'm talking about live in their parents basements, paying no rent or other living expenses, free food, free maid, etc. They are 30 years old and have college degrees and could be working. But they just play video games.
I think the difference is: they are mentally ill, whereas I have an actual life (which I work/ed my ass off to have). When I was 30 I was doing all the things I mentione
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I'm getting up to geezerhood, but I do play video games, and also shoot.
But it sounds like you've had more financial success than I have. Video games are, per hour, generally much cheaper than shooting as a hobby. Especially with bullets being $1 or more per shot. Even searching around, $0.20 a round is good these days.
A gaming PC and a good firearm are basically neck and neck. You can get deals buying used, and the sky is the limit for either, though I think it's slightly higher for firearms at the top
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22LR is where it's at if you just want some pew pew pew without worrying about it draining your wallet.
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Yeah, mentioned.22lr being cheaper in my footnote. Looking up, I'm seeing 500 rounds of.22lr for $40. Or about 8 cents per shot.
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A better comparison might be the cost of sailing vs. video games. Sailing is probably cheaper than video games. Of course there are lots of "real world" things that are essentially free, too.
Personally, after spending huge amounts of time on a screen -- doing what I love and can hardly believe I get paid for -- I like seeing the sun and everything.
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1. I don't sail, so can't quote that comparison as easily.
2. Uh, how are you sailing for cheap? I've heard that boats are normally real money sinks. How do you count it as "essentially free"?I suppose you might have an arrangement where you can sail on a friend's boat for free, but that isn't something everybody can have.
If you're renting, I'm seeing $72/hour and up [boatsetter.com].
from nautal.com, I'm seeing pickings getting mighty slim under $300/day.
If you're owning, I'm seeing $15-25k as a starting price, then you
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That's a really long-winded way of saying that you don't "get" something which is wildly popular and is no longer considered a niche leisure activity. In fact, in 2005 Chamillionaire released a rather popular rap song [wikipedia.org] with the following lyrics:
Gaming stopped being a nerdy activity the moment it reached the same level of coolness as owning a firearm.
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That is what I am saying, but more to the point of it dominating the lives of people to the exclusion of every other part of life.
It is also normal and non-niche to eat McDonalds for every meal, statistically speaking. They have the highest quality food there, right? How could a trillion people be wrong about that? Unless you think that what is "normal" in society may sometimes be of questionable value.
It's not really about personal wealth, either, because the population I'm talking about has access to the
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I have never seen an ad in a PC game. I see advertisements galore in mobile games meant for phones or tablets. Ie, free to download but you get adds every few minutes. Candy Crush, etc. But real games for consoles or PCs I've never seen ads. But the game downloader/store/portal/whatever where you can buy games to download probably has lots of ads for games to buy, because that's the purpose of the store. I suspect that console portals and the Microsoft store are more ad heavy than the PC Steam portal.
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