Global hyperinflation is now so bad that people are mass preordering videogames because they're worried they won't have the same purchasing power by midday tomorrow
The strange thing about slop is that the normies will enjoy it for a long time after it has gotten stale, but will never criticize or realize that they're playing slop, until the winds change and a new genre/game/series/whatever gets popular. And only then will they be able to identify where the enshittification started. It's a social-based taste, where people like things because they're popular and they're afraid to criticize them or not play them.
GoT was the perfect example of this. Personally I started feeling like the quality of the show dropped significantly after season 4. I was already pretty tired and disappointed with the series by season 6. But if you mentioned this anywhere before season 8 people would look at you like you're crazy. Then Season 8 happened, and within weeks everyone suddenly agreed that the series has been shit since Season 4.
Also, from the charts it doesn't look like it's trending that hard. It's third behind a remake and a CoD game (do people still play these?), and next game on the list is a Monster Hunter title that comes out in 5 months. You'd expect it to be slightly higher if it was an amazing success.
Not really. I've bought about 5 games made after 2016, and I've played 2 of them. I barely still play vidya, and when I do I usually just play the older stuff.
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its getting outsold by a 14 year old game lol
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!nonchuds !cuteandvalid
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for some reason my work blocks 4chan
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is it Mr Bones Wild Ride 2?
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for a many splendid reasons
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Global hyperinflation is now so bad that people are mass preordering videogames because they're worried they won't have the same purchasing power by midday tomorrow
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me on my way to buy bideo instead of bread
!historychads
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The strange thing about slop is that the normies will enjoy it for a long time after it has gotten stale, but will never criticize or realize that they're playing slop, until the winds change and a new genre/game/series/whatever gets popular. And only then will they be able to identify where the enshittification started. It's a social-based taste, where people like things because they're popular and they're afraid to criticize them or not play them.
GoT was the perfect example of this. Personally I started feeling like the quality of the show dropped significantly after season 4. I was already pretty tired and disappointed with the series by season 6. But if you mentioned this anywhere before season 8 people would look at you like you're crazy. Then Season 8 happened, and within weeks everyone suddenly agreed that the series has been shit since Season 4.
Also, from the charts it doesn't look like it's trending that hard. It's third behind a remake and a CoD game (do people still play these?), and next game on the list is a Monster Hunter title that comes out in 5 months. You'd expect it to be slightly higher if it was an amazing success.
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That's a lot of words for "fashions and fads exist"
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You're going to buy it on sale at some point and no amount of cope posting will change that.
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Not really. I've bought about 5 games made after 2016, and I've played 2 of them. I barely still play vidya, and when I do I usually just play the older stuff.
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How many players does veilguard have right now? RDR1 has about 7k.
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Does the total number of players counts when it is such a best-seller, chud?
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These are preorders. It comes out tomorrow.
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And the gay furry fishing game has 12k !furries
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When a game has no competitors that are releasing at the same time (like was the case with Elden Ring) "top" lists are meaningless.
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G*mer mentality:
Go outside.
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finally a win for the disney adults!
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but basically there's just no competition right now -- RDR is outselling it, and has only a couple thousand players.
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It got beat by Red Dead 1 and CS2. Ha. Also pre-orders dont mean shit when people start playing this mess and b-word about it.
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couldnt pay me to play such slop
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Snapshots:
https://boards.4chan.org/v/thread/693280986:
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