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  🇺🇸🇲🇽MaxDamage, Standard Bearer, Giant Slayer🪬 (@MaxDamage9999) reported 1 minute ago

  You'll hear them say "gaming need to shrink to be better." What they actually mean is they want whites only representation in games again. They want Lara Croft tits and fan service back. They don't care about actual gaming. It's just window dressing for more CoD games.

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  Conrad Bastable (@ConradBastable) reported 2 minutes ago

  quick thesis: "kids today aren't even playing videogames the way we were, millennial relationship to gaming is now a cultural relic, like listening to the radio or drive-in movies" TL;DR -- Millennials are the new boomers, Halo is Woodstock, WoW is the iPod, Dad gamers are the only "gamers" left by their own definition (& they don't have time to play anymore), the kids are all cracked out on Live Service Slop platforms that they can't escape and don't want to, competition is dead, E-Sports is dead, creative content is dead, screaming down the mic is dead, couch co-op with your friends is dead, couch co-op with your Dad is dead, AAA games are dead, consoles are dead, Game Pass is dead. And at the end of the day it's all because, if you squint, the kids don't play games anymore. long thesis: supporting industry stuff: - industry publications say average gamer is now ~37, up from 29 in 2004 - they also note that kids <12 have seen the largest drop in videogame engagement post-pandemic of all age ranges (-6%) - Pew's 2008 report says "Fully 97% of teens ages 12-17 play computer, web, portable, or console games", whereas their 2024 report says "the vast majority of U.S. teens (85%) say they play them. Just 15% say they never do" - Gen Z's favorite games are Minecraft, CoD, GTA, Fortnite, and Roblox - PC gaming has a notably larger share of the overall market now vs. console gaming - Console game sales were 4x-6x PC game sales back in 2004 - PC game sales were 1:1 with Console game sales last year - Everyone being stuck at home in 2020 seemed to permanently inflect things here, with PC game sales stagnant from 2015-2019 but then becoming the dominant source of industry growth since - Roblox (2006), Minecraft (2011), & Fortnite (2017) are top 5 gaming IPs for Gen Z.... - ....these are more live-service game-hosting platforms that actual games themselves - Newzoo has a 2026 report saying only ~13% of gametime went to new releases! - 2/3rds of gametime went to >6 year old games! - That same report did an analysis comparing playtime concentration across PC/PS/Xbox platforms and their Top 20 Games vs. the long tail of their library (it's a really good report) Note on the recent restructuring: for Xbox it was called out specifically that Game Pass caused a redistribution of playtime away from top titles and towards the long tail, without any actual expansion of the total audience/playtime.....basically, Game Pass nukes Xbox's ability to monetize it's big blow out titles without any offsetting gains from expanding the market. oops. supporting game stuff: - let's call it the "Roblox" problem -- all the kids exist within a massively multiplayer online gaming ecosystem, with play, creation, socialization, and monetization all embedded in one platform - the creation angle and the monetization angle also i think encourage parents to view these games as "educational" more so than, say, Call of Duty, and are therefore more willing to encourage their kids to play with time and/or money - there is no clear off-ramp from this platform - you can have totally new gameplay experiences within it, with low friction adoption - as this platform captures a larger and larger share of player attention, it sucks the available playtime & monetization out of the rest of the industry - this process naturally changes the incentives around making games, including what kind of games get made, for what audience, and targeted at what price point - we got legions of "WoW killers" and "Halo/CoD clones" in the early 2000s because those games were platform beasts of their own... - ...and so now we're years-deep into every financially motivated major game studio trying to figure out how to build a "Roblox" of their own, aka Live Service Slop 24/7, 365 - the fans might hate it but there's a giant pile of money labeled "Live Service Slop" in the middle of the room and it's clear to publishers & studios that the prize is there, if only they can be good enough to claim it - [of course, all millennials know that WoW and Halo both killed themselves, nobody ever steals the crown by copying it] - and so while all this is happening, it's opened up a previously under-served niche in the "lower-mid price point indie-to-double-A targeted niche game" - Palworld, Enshrouded, Schedule I, Silksong, and so on, were all in the very top % of revenue-earners for newly released PC games in the year they dropped - In console land, Space Marine 2 just blasted a quarter of a billion dollars in revenues of a budget way smaller than a typical AAA release - If AAA studios had been dropping Halo/CoD/Gears-style games every other year chasing success, the niche for Space Marine 2 wouldn't have really been there, not at the same scale - I think there's a similar effect even with BG3, whose awesome success likely would've been a little lower (though still great) if fans had gotten genre-adjacent Skyrim & Witcher sequels already - but instead, we have the "Roblox problem" (Roblox, Minecraft, Fortnite, GTA), where cross-platform self-contained game-related live service platforms have monopolized huge chunks of (younger) gamer time and money......and warped the kinds of content big studios try to make in the process supporting adjacent stuff: - there's also a whole cloud of adjacent areas that are impacted as a result of the above - picture everything as a big web and these nodes as farther out on the web - but you see a related decline of "E Sports" and the rise instead of "Influencers", as community figures with large audiences they can monetize become higher status than ultra sweaty competitive pros - the decline of competitive online culture has also coupled with intentional pushes by studios and their hardware platform partners to reduce online toxicity, changing the culture of online spaces - the decline of forums & reddit and the rise of ig/tiktok/youtube has turned third-party game-content-ecosystems into more pyramidal "one mega influencer" structures - chasing the Live Service dragon has led to a massive decline in couch co-op ("local splitscreen") titles, which reduces a certain KIND of gaming experience that, while not the norm from a playtime POV, was nonetheless an integral part of millennial gaming - the above also makes Family Gaming a lot harder with kids, as what was once an expected default across most games has moved into a separate genre reserved for "Girlfriend Games" - game-related content has been nearly totally evaporated by Twitch (which is itself in the process of being evaporated), short form video, and "creator talks at the camera" long form video - "Machinima" and "Parody Game Songs" and "Montages" are both bizarre millennial cultural content that seems egregiously lacking in disaffected irony to the younger audience - it's covered extensively elsewhere so wasn't worth jamming in here too much, but the explosion of MTX means in-game "status" derived from earned rewards & achievement, such as it is, has been nearly totally replaced with purchased status...and in so doing, game studios have *totally* devalued the actual status that playing their game used to convey - we're already dealing with a young generation who is hyper-cynical, hyper-financially oriented, ""crypto-native"" and spammed with ""prediction"" markets 24/7...so to have yet another part of their lives see its earned status replaced with dollar-signs and a casino logo likely seems totally normal to them

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  andrea (@andreamerazz) reported 11 minutes ago

  Losing over 200+ sr bc cod doesnt wanna fix their game and im crashing as soon as i load into a ranked game #ihatemylife

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  Racing Games Music (@racinggamesmusi) reported 12 minutes ago

  I just got the whole cod experience with modern warfare Went to install it, 110 gb After 3 hours it ends installing, try entering Gotta login with Activision, no worry, I do it Update requires an restart Restart the game, went to play the campaign Campaign is not installed

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  🇨🇦NeverThe51stState🇨🇦 (@Chuckforevver) reported 13 minutes ago

  @JohanzelV @ManaByte Spending all that money to acquire Activision to put COD games day one on the service.

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  LL Asp (@TheLL_Asp) reported 15 minutes ago

  @CallofDuty @kuronushi_ Fix the the anti cheat FFS

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  Lazy Geek (@InSnyderWeTrust) reported 17 minutes ago

  @ForeverPhysical Literally says you can play it offline after the initial sign in. Ya know like CP2077, every CoD, EA, Ubi game etc etc. Did you even read the last line before your brain went into meltdown?

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  Amey Khare (@ameykhare86) reported 20 minutes ago

  @amazonIN @AmazonIN @AmazonHelp My prepaid order 171-3241104-3521906 has been marked as delivered but I havent received it. This isn't the first time I've faced this with prepaid orders. Charging extra for COD while customers repeatedly face delivery issues with prepaid orders is an unfair

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  The Lion (@LachVsTheWorld) reported 21 minutes ago

  @IICrysisII @Harrtley Brother just know if I could make a difference in the cheating problem In cod I would I wish more than anything activison would give us a discord with direct access to dev’s / people at ricochet where we could send in clips. I think a bigger issue personally is having the same leaderboard for pc and console players when you can play console only Shouldn’t have a global leaderboard when you can turn off cross play

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  Karti (@KartiPiotr) reported 24 minutes ago

  @awisemankey @SadlyItsBradley yes - example of SteamDeck - you CAN play CoD MW2 2022 - but any CoD after that has issue since you don't really have drivers for it on Windows. This is just a practical example - if you play games that came out before Steam Machine - you don't have issue, but anything after?

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  Solid Snake (@SolidSnake1MGS) reported 25 minutes ago

  @TheDezembro Im glad for them, just look at "Toys for Bob" They got the responsibility back of looking after Spyro and Crash after going independant Its a better existance than being a COD support

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  PivotForge (@PivotForge) reported 29 minutes ago

  @Emberden @GamingSinceNES Dedicated CoD players are like dope fiends. They don't care where they go as long as they get their fix

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  Otunba Fizo (@OtunbaFizo) reported 30 minutes ago

  @Bigstorm555 @emmyx4pf Na work rate problem, he just wan sing good song con go back house go play COD, he no wan compete with anybody.

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  The Crapgamer (@The_CrapGamer) reported 31 minutes ago

  @_Tom_Henderson_ Multiple reasons. Game Pass was always most adopted on console. Microsoft gave up on consoles years ago before the new leadership changed course. Also, the price increases and additions of things into the service that make no sense: COD, Fortnite Crew, Ubisoft+ ect

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  i5C0R3Pi0N (JXIII) ³¹ᵍᵍ (@ChrisTaylorMAD3) reported 31 minutes ago

  Lol handing out a live service game for free that is basically useless cuz COD gets almost a yearly release. Jokes.