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60% of All Playtime Went to Games Six Years Old or Older in 2023 | MMORPG.com
60% of all playtime in 2023 went to games six years old or older and five games, including Fortnite, Roblox, League of Legends, Minecraft, and GTA V represented 27% of all playtime in 2023.
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I'm not an IT Specialist, Game Developer, or Clairvoyant in real life, but like others on here, I play one on the internet.
So yeah. We'll continue to play old games. Because fuck you too.
Darkest Dungeon
Morrowind
Skyrim
Lord of the Rings Online
Some Daggerfall
Dark Messiah
Some newer games that are made with an eye to Older Games like Graven.
The only modern game I’m enjoying is Dragons Dogma 2.
Godfred's Tomb Trailer: https://youtu.be/-nsXGddj_4w
Original Skyrim: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/109547
Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo
I think 10 years ago we would have seen the likes of WoW crack a list like this, but that's when these multiplayer live service games were really just spearheaded by the MMO genre. Now everything is using the tech MMOs were built on two decades ago.
There's an article idea here somewhere, I just know it, lol.
Also, I'm still laughing at the implication we're all rich over here, lol.
There are plenty of new games that come out with modest requirements so having the latest hardware is not at all necessary.
Also, for profit games are for profit. They are of course about the redistribution of wealth from the player to the maker, as it should be.
If you want to play for free then play a f2p game and deal with the manufactured inconvenience such usually come with.
The games coming out today are more expensive, are being released as a premium game at a premium cost and failing.
In the mmorpg genre it’s the same. We all complain there are no good NEW mmorpgs but that’s because the ones we go back to or continue to play are in much more playable states, a lot have sales and continue to push out huge updates.
Most people play multiplayer games for far more hours having greater longevity in their core designs.
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
civ 6 being my most played, then WoW, Solasta, Maneater and Outer Worlds with Diablo 4 getting some play time the past month but with my old 1050ti D4 dosnt run all that great...thats probably the biggest reason I dont play newer games, I dont want to buy another comp to have to play them
Godz of War I call Thee
Or this speaks to the quality, monetarization and early access release of todays gaming. This is evidence gaming is not getting better and better, time to face up to that.
Its an interesting study and its not surprising. I work in higher education and I recently attended a "characteristics" of this current generation of students who will be in college in the next few years (so 11-15 or so age group) and there were some interesting points. First, they are not keen on new technology. We always think of them as tech gurus but in reality they know what they know and thats it. My son can own games and Tik Tok and Youtube and all things he does regularly. But asking him to use Microsoft products is like me trying to do math. He prefers Google docs because he knows it and does not want to learn anything new. Also, they are most likely to not read instructions but look up a video on Youtube but not just any video but a video of someone doing what they are trying. Whereas I may go to the company's website and download detailed instructions, this generation will go look for Youtube videos first. It almost like some sort of hybrid-kinesthetic learning mode. Lastly, there attention span is short but so is there dedication span. We joke about X(Twitter) and Tik Tok with providing short, dedicated content but thats what they want. They are not into movies, and long books and things that involve a detailed commitment. Every single game both of my kids play are session based, drop in and out type of games. It makes perfect sense that these are the top games when looking at the study as it fits that generation. This is also why many games have adopted similar playstyles. And I think also why many of us in older generations find them fun to start but grow bored. We are just wired differently.
Now the standard disclaimer is that this does not apply to everyone in a generation but the common trends. There are always exceptions to the rule.
If companies can make good games and keep the price reasonable (like Helldivers 2) or a decent free-to-play model then it will start skewing toward newer games.
Before listening to the player base a developer should ask the player a few questions:
- How many games have you played in the last 90 days? 35? GTFO.
- Do you think FTP is a good idea? Yes? GTFO.
- What's the longest you ever played a single game? 3 days? GTFO.
Stop catering to people who are looking for happiness and find players who are already happy, but just see games as entertainment. Tired of the no-lifers that blow into a game, max everything out in 72hrs., dump all over the community, and then split.FO was released like in October, I know people who maxxed it, left complaining it was too dull with nothing to do to go play Ravendawn, the 'perfect' replacement - and have already left Ravendawn. They'll puke all over Ravendawn, move onto another game, and blow through 1/2 dozen other titles between now and Dec 2025.
You just aren't going to keep those folks happy.
Don't even try.