“To say that Gen Z and Gen Alpha are into live-service games is only half the story. These games offer a social space for players to hang out and be creative. For them, it’s not about winning in a competitive online shooting match but about expressing themselves and exploring in a virtual sandbox.”
“Plus, just because Gen Z and Gen Alpha not playing those $70 titles now doesn’t mean they won’t in the future. Yguado believes that those players will “graduate” from Roblox and other sandbox titles, although they probably won’t be leaving Roblox forever. Games won’t be going away just because Roblox is around. You just have to meet new players where they are and on their own terms.”
Fuck live-service. Make good single player games, with co-op, some interactive hub for people to just chill and meet organically, and then add in your multiplayer modes and arenas for sweatiest players. Done.
This is the most generic content ever, catering to companies who don’t give a fuck even if it means they’ll crash and burn their company they won’t change a damn thing.
I dont agree with this article at all. There are still as much intrest to longer single player games than before. Its just that the audience is wider now that 15-30 years ago.
Back in the 90’s and 00’s gaming at home had pretty high level of entry. PC side was just starting up and installing and trouple shooting games were much more cumbersome than now days. If you bought a console you basically committed to the games on that console. Thats why games were catered to much narrower audience. Those audiences are still there, but now that the bar for starting to play games is so much lower there is completelly new group of gamers on the market.
They’d rather spend hundreds of dollars on skins that’ll give them a sense of identity than $70 on a one-time experience.
ugh
The century of the self to its fullest potential
Completely caused by corporations and “every Man by Himself” government policy, too. We were never meant to be like this.
I feel like this message applies to pretty much anything you can make and for any generation.
To make, be authentic
Sure but „GenZ!!!111oneleven“ in the title generates more clicks.
