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hisao, do games w PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now

Currently 100% of my time is spent on games that are “six or more years old”, and a lot of that is spent on games that are more than 30 years old. But! I’m playing newly-made community content for 30 y/o games. This kind of retrogaming is something that evades Steam statistics entirely because it usually means playing custom sourceports of old games which rarely are on Steam. One old game I play on Steam to contribute to this statistics is Skyrim.

cyberpunk007,

For me, definitely older and indie (old and new). I don’t get a lot of time these days to sit at my PC. Using my steam deck primarily these days is part of the reason I’m playing older games, but seriously I have a problem with steam/gog/name a storefront/ backlogs. I have so many games already, great time to review what I bought because of hype but never played.

Snowclone,

Yeah that whole conundrum, if you have the money to buy new games you don’t have the time to play them, if you had the time, you wouldn’t have the money to buy them.

IronKrill, do games w PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now
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I have a large backlog of five(?)+ plus year old games that are really good and I have yet to play. I’d much rather burn through those enjoying them on high settings instead of playing current games on low settings while trying to dodge crap monetization.

DrSteveBrule, do games w Another live service shooter is getting shut down, this time before it even launched on Steam

Instead of issuing refunds on any purchased in game currency, Zynga informs players should quickly spend it in game before the game shuts down lmao

arun,

God that’s scummy af.

Aequitas38472, do gaming w Fragpunk is the competitive first-person shooter finally brave enough to declare that balance is overrated, and that's why it's my new go-to

Sounds cool. Is it on console?

Megaman_EXE,

It’s supposed to be, but I think the console releases might have been delayed?

humandotexe, do gaming w Fragpunk is the competitive first-person shooter finally brave enough to declare that balance is overrated, and that's why it's my new go-to

Been playing a handful of hours now. If you’re trying to kick Riot games, this is an excellent replacement for valorant

SolidShake, do games w Another live service shooter is getting shut down, this time before it even launched on Steam

Bring back greenlite and this story could have been avoided completely. No one wants an F2P shooter anymore. They suck. They’re never good. Season passes sick. Buying skins is bullshit. I hope we can get to the point where games like call of duty get cancelled before releasing.

De_Narm,

Greenlight was almost universally hated by devs. It could be easily gamed by abusing your popularity or by simply using bots. It prevented actual indie devs from ever releasing finished games while a lot of greenlit games didn’t even release.

SolidShake,

ah. but also just letting anyone make anything is letting bots make scam games

caseyweederman, do gaming w Fragpunk is the competitive first-person shooter finally brave enough to declare that balance is overrated, and that's why it's my new go-to

Alright, that’s really cool.
If you use the gravity reverse ability when people don’t have a ceiling above them, do they fall up into the sky and die?

perishthethought, do gaming w Fragpunk is the competitive first-person shooter finally brave enough to declare that balance is overrated, and that's why it's my new go-to
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p03locke, do games w Another live service shooter is getting shut down, this time before it even launched on Steam
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Maybe don’t launch live service shooters? They are a dime a dozen.

ytsedude, do games w Fields of Mistria adds lava caves and pets you unlock by having a 'pet dream'

Is this game worth checking out? Or does it need more time?

Quill7513,

this is also what i came into the thread wanting to know

tonytins,
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Article seems to think so, but I’m only hearing about it now myself.

caut_R, (edited )

I‘ve played 20 odd hours of the initial release version on my Deck and hadn’t hit its content cap. It ran smooth, I didn‘t encounter any bugs or crashes.

Gameplay-wise, it‘s more shallow in the farming aspect but cozier in its atmosphere compared to SDV. Personally, I had a lot of fun, probably the most in a farming sim after SDV. I loved the cast.

I‘ve read criticism that it‘s just a clone which even if true (IMO it‘s not), I don‘t think is a problem: I‘ve played so much SDV, I really needed a different flavor of farming sim (but without any extra BS) to get over the fatigue.

The initial release was already a good and competent game by its own merits, IMO. However, it’s not the second coming of farming sim Christ. This is just my 20 hours impression of the release version, it had two major updates since IIRC.

Suck_on_my_Presence,

I agree with the other reply. But as a fair warning, I’m not someone who really got sucked into Stardew. That being said, I think Mistria is much better. The characters are all fantastic and fun, the magic system is nice, and I love the museum / collections like Animal Crossing.

I haven’t played this update yet, but I’ve really enjoyed the time that I have sunk into the game.

lath,

More of the same. If you like that, then yes.

MoreZombies, do games w Another live service shooter is getting shut down, this time before it even launched on Steam

Fucking Zynga.

UpperBroccoli, do games w Another live service shooter is getting shut down, this time before it even launched on Steam

“Your passion and dedication to the game and its community have meant the world to us, and we are committed to providing visibility and updates throughout the transition process.”

Lol… what a lot of crap.

arotrios, do games w WoW guild uses exploits to get world 'first' on new raid, gets banned, puts its name backwards and does it again
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XM34, (edited )

You’re wrong. Bob spelled backwards is not WoW 🤓

/s (obviously)

Albbi,

Bob - Weird Al Yankovic might be up your alley.

Mesophar,

Madam I’m Adam

GeeDubHayduke,

So is racecar and abutttuba.

Vandals_handle,
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SoftestSapphic,
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Dammit Im mad

Vandals_handle,
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But Dad, I’m jesus christ

Rhoeri, do games w WoW guild uses exploits to get world 'first' on new raid, gets banned, puts its name backwards and does it again
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Wow is still a thing?

ArchmageAzor,
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Must be comfy under that rock

Rhoeri,
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The rock where I’m actually doing enough with my life so as to not be aware that a cartoonish video game still exists?

Yeah. It’s pretty comfy.

winkerjadams,

Yet you are on a much more obscure thing called Lemmy. I don’t really care, just pointing out the irony.

Rhoeri,
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And yet- my not caring about a video game enough to know whether or not it still existed is somehow wrong?

Lost_My_Mind, do games w WoW guild uses exploits to get world 'first' on new raid, gets banned, puts its name backwards and does it again

ITT: I learn WoW is still a thing. Honestly thought that shit died like 15 years ago.

Pregnenolone,

You have to be living under a rock to not know that WoW is still an incredibly popular game. It’s easily still the most popular MMORPG

tonytins,
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If the only pre-live service MMORPG still going strong.

Kolanaki,
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I was actually surprised to see Ultima Online is still up and active recently. It must have a pretty decent sized population for EA not to shut down and repurpose the servers for Battlefield or something.

tonytins,
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Now there’s a name I haven’t heard in a hot minute.

ICastFist,
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What about FF14 or Guild Wars 2? Don’t they count as pre-live service MMORPGs, too?

tonytins,
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checks Seems games as a service model that we know today really picked up steam at around the late 2010s. So, yeah…

acosmichippo,
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what makes wow not a live service game? aren’t all MMOs by definition live service?

tonytins, (edited )
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I mean, yeah. Just don’t tend not to lump the older ones in it because of how awful the practice has become since the phrase was formalized.

Kusimulkku,

I’ve been living under quite a rock then, haven’t heard WoW even mentioned for years (and years)

the_q,

It’s a failed attempt at minimizing. Lots of people reply like that.

PapaStevesy,

No you don’t.

VindictiveJudge,
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I genuinely didn’t know it was still big. Everyone I know who played it quit ten years ago and expansion launches no longer hit my feeds.

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