31 and it's only in the last year that I've started thinking it might not be a forever thing. I dreamt of these amazing worlds we'd get to experience in games but little has even come close, it's mostly just turned into a money extraction gig funded by whales and teenagers spending their weekly fortnite allowance on their addiction.
Game systems are largely the same, very little is organic, the industry is painfully inefficient and if they can barely make the largely homogenised, bloated same-old same-old we're getting now, I don't think many will be raising the bar much further. All the big companies are consolidating their eggs into a few sure-thing baskets and very little is made for me at this point. On the smaller side, the PS3 and early PS4 gen had many great titles; but even the 'indies' aren't putting out a whole lot that interest me.
There's a handful of technological developments underway or on the horizon that may get us over the hump, but it probably won't last long, then after that companies likely won't use it to add much value, depth or quality but to cut heads and extract more cash in the short-term while doing the bare minimum to get the automatic pre-orderers and addicts on board.
I'm really 50/50 when it comes to my hope for this whole thing. Gaming may have a big future still but for me it won't matter if it turns into everyone just getting you to cough up for endless microtransactions on forced, over-priced bundles across a mix of full, half and free-priced games which also have effective subscriptions built in in the form of battle passes, season passes and premium battle passes. It used to be fun earning all the cosmetic stuff, now I just feel like I'm missing out on most of it because I can't on principal spend £20 on a bundle to get one thing I want and five things I don't; in which case I just don't bother anymore.
I have hope for another gen or two perhaps, but after that I really don't know.. I've already checked out of this gen for two years and probs won't be back in for another year with the Pro, Death Stranding 2 & GTAVI. Beyond that I see Ghost Of Tsushima 2. But I'm just finding myself less impressed with everything.
I wonder if the industry is chasing the fickle masses and their money, but there'll come a big switch off and they'll be left with no foundation when the core, long-term fanbases give up -- no longer there to catch them.
majorgamer10
Based on the threads you've made in the last 2-3 months, I think you may be falling out of love with gaming as a hobby. And you know what? That's fine. It doesn't mean there's something wrong with you that need to be fixed or something wrong with games. Just means you're not into it anymore. Again, that's fine.
