At which critical juncture will you abandon gaming completely?

[banshee150]

With exploitative capitalistic milking machines such as Fifa and COD pushing the same game every year and the overabundance of MTX and GaaS elements, at which point do you expect this to become a uniform situation where you will have short, nonsubstantive campaigns complemented by mostly MP modes, propped up by genres that owe their existence to the online infrastructure alone that dilute, exploit and distort the gaming medium to the point that in the future all we will have to play are online GaaS with no SP and just endless whales and Destiny-esque season passes and updates?

Will you then rise up again this nonsense or just abandon the fight?

 

[Servbot24]

When there are no good offline, linear, single player games to play. I already won't even touch the GaaS things.

 

[lobdale]

When I stop caring totally about what there is to play anymore

 

[Deleted member 8468]

Death, I assume.

 

[TheInfinityGauntlet]

Bad time to use COD as an example lmao

Death, I assume.

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[Cess007]

No physical games anymore.

 

[Hippopuncher12]

Only two things will make me abandon it, well three because death is one, but everything becoming a GaaS or the day physical goes away.

 

[Apollyon Woman]

When Nintendo goes out of business. I have always been a Nintendo gamer, I'm not ashamed to admit that. Even in a modern day and age they still consistently push out quality titles that, even if not generally loved by the public, have their own redeeming qualities about them.

 

[Angst]

When there are no good offline, linear, single player games to play. I already won't even touch the GaaS things.

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This. But honestly there is still a ton of these out there so I'm not worried for the immediate future.

 

[Bundy]

(Only going by that question in the thread title)
If everything is game-streaming or services ala Netflix. Then I'm out. Gonna be a "Retro Player" then, playing my "old" games.
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If there aren't any good singleplayer games anymore. Then I will stop and play old/retro games only.

 

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[TrishaCat]

I'd only give up gaming if every game became only available through cloud streaming.

 

[CaptainBojangles]

If I don't want to play new games I have a big enough backlog already. Not worried about it

 

[dancingphlower]

Is this a parody?

 

[Fizzgig]

When they pry the controller from my cold dead fingers

 

[Xando]

Will you then rise up again this nonsense

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Is this a joke i'm not getting

 

[Kalentan]

Is this a parody?

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I do not believe so.

 

[JooJ]

Even if nothing worthy comes out after today, I'll still never be able to play every good game available.

So when I lose interest in gaming.

 

[Servbot24]

This. But honestly there is still a ton of these out there so I'm not worried for the immediate future.

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Yup. People love to talk about how they're dying, yet here I am drowning in a backlog of them.

 

[Ushay]

When they pry the controller from my cold dead fingers

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Basically this, been my hobby since I was a kid man.

 

[Lobster Roll]

Whenever I read concerns like this, I feel compelled to dump a list of several dozen games that are full experiences not bogged down by MTX, GAAS, or annual fatigue.

 

[nsilvias]

if i need internet to even start a single player game. comcast home internet is overpriced unreliable trash.

 

[Maple]

If and when streaming becomes the standard.

 

[ThreepQuest64]

Until death do us apart.

 

[danowat]

Never?, I've been gaming for nearly 40 years and can't see me stopping while I am still physically able to play.

 

[Gakidou]

I already rise up, dingus.
There will probably always be indie games so long as there are gamers who see a demand for something going unfilled by big companies. So I'm not worried. Maybe you're unprepared to try something outside of your comfort zone so you're worried about the diminishing options in the triple-A space and franchises/platforms you invest your identity in?

 

[Dusk Golem]

Honestly, probably never. Even if say, video games entirely stopped releasing in 2021, like there was never another video game released after that date, there's already enough out there that interests me that could fill my life time. So even if video games got to a point I no longer enjoyed what was coming out, there's still plenty I love from the thousands of titles that have released in the last 40 years.

 

[Musubi]

When I'm dead.

 

[shaneo632]

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[Ohri-Jin]

When I can't game OFFLINE at all. I will forever love multiplayer games, but singeplayer story driven games as well.

When they force me to stay online 24/7 for even singleplayer games I will probably go hit the gym instead.

 

[eXistor]

When fully developed, offline single-player games stop being made. But even then I'd just go back to my vast library of games and replay old games and such so it's not like I'd stop playing games

 

[Forkball]

Good god man

 

[WestEgg]

When the enjoyment I derive from them becomes less than the next viable alternative for my attention. So likely when I die.

 

[NYCrooner]

Having a kid and a bum thumb has made it very difficult to game. Ultimately, life will dictate when I stop, not the industry.

 

[OneBadMutha]

Considering that gaming keeps expanding and opening up avenues for more diverse and creative content, I don't see it ever happening. You all need to let go of EA and Activision defining the entire industry. There are multiple business models and customer segments and lots of great content out there.

 

[Ayra Sutoraifu]

This. But honestly there is still a ton of these out there so I'm not worried for the immediate future.

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Same here.
But sp games are doing really good so i'm settled for a while.

 

[Sinatar]

I've pretty much stopped buying new games outside of the occasional indie game. Instead I've gone and started playing old games that I enjoy, this I can do until I croak. So I'll never abandon it completely, but as a consumer of new games, I'm pretty much done.

 

[Bladelaw]

When there aren't any games I want to play.

 

[lord_of_flood]

The main one would be Nintendo exiting the video game business. Nintendo is basically the reason I play video games, and if they were no longer making video games, I would most likely stop playing them altogether.

 

[Owl]

When I stop having fun with it.

And being a fan of competitive games, especially fighters, I doubt that I'll ever stop having fun.

 

[Deleted member 10737]

When Nintendo goes out of business.

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this.

 

[blacktout]

When the Nintendoomed prophecy comes true.

 

[TransEuropaExpress]

I will rise up and fight!!!! I WILL LIFT MY SKINNY FISTS LINE ANTENNAS TO GAMING HEAVEN!!!

 

[Jessie]

Literature survived pulp novels and cinema survived network television.

 

[Truly Gargantuan]

Even if every game from today onwards became MTX filled whale fishing bullshit there are enough games released thus far that I could never run out of games to play. My steam library alone ensures I'll be gaming until I die.

 

[NediarPT88]

all we will have to play are online GaaS with no SP and just endless whales and Destiny-esque season passes and updates?

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If there are people interested in SP games then you'll have devs making those games since there's money there to be made.

I wouldn't worry about that.

 

[Zonal Hertz]

The new cod is good fun and games like CSGO exist thanks to new models and it's the best thing ever. Long live the future.

 

[Reinhardt Schneider]

Nintendo leaves the business

I'm a pc gamer too, but I need Nintendo to fuel my gaming appetite and do what other companies doesn't. Once they're gone I see no incentive on keep gaming

 

[Senator Rains]

Until gaming is longer fun

 

[Van Bur3n]

OP has really been thinking about this for the past half hour.

Its disgusting though. Makes me lose respect for gaming as a medium when its all about annual milking and GaaS.

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