A reader is frustrated that as an older fan he’s increasingly being ignored by PlayStation and Xbox and pushed towards PC gaming. Most of what’s going on with gaming right now seems to be because of profits going down (or rather not going up by as much as expected) and publishers panicking that they’re making the wrong sort of games. Suddenly single-player games are out of fashion again, as if all the people that bought the ones from last gen teleported off the planet and now nobody wants that type of game.
Obviously, that didn’t happen but I’m 38, which I don’t like to think is too old, and I don’t know any of my friends that enjoy live service games. I know one that plays Rainbow Six Siege a bit with his friends, and another that plays with his kid on Fortnite , but none of us want to be playing that kind of game in our time, when we get the TV to ourselves. But apparently publishers don’t care what I want.
They only want to make the type of games younger people player (I resent them for making me word it like that – I’m not that old!) because it’s more profitable. Which means that, basically, adults are generally too sensible to waste money on cosmetics and microtransactions. The problem, as I understand it, is that games have got too expensive to make, although I see no evidence that anyone is trying to reduce this or do anything other than throw everything into live service games instead.
With all this in mind, I saw the report during the week about.