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[โ€“] Nangijala@feddit.dk 6 points 2 days ago (11 children)

I genuinely do not regret jumping off the video game train back in 2015.

Everything I have heard about the evolution of the gaming industry since has surpassed my pessimistic predictions back then, which could be summarized as: video games are becoming predatory and I feel like they eat my time and money for dismissed returns.

It was especially the consol market and the whole online aspect that made me wrinkle my nose. Feels like nowadays you actually can't buy and play a game offline.

But what do I know. I only tune in when my friend is playing on twitch and we talk about life over Signal. We have gone back to retro games recently too. Jake and Daxter ๐ŸŽ‰

[โ€“] Muffi@programming.dev 10 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Man, you have been missing out on the golden age of indie games. Sorry to hear that.

[โ€“] rachelzsnow@lemmy.pt 3 points 1 day ago

i think a lot of people are (me included) because its just force of habit to gravitate towards the AAA games and even tho there are some famous indie games out there like hollow knight those might not be for everyone and we lack maybe the will to search for them? I am probably switching to pc and i wil be searching for more indie games for sure. Maybe some good might come out of this!

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