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Gamers Are Becoming Less Interested in Games With Deep Strategy, Study Finds (www.ign.com)

submitted 1 year ago by nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I love 4x games, but playing a game of Stellaris for a week or more just to realize that I've inescapably fucked up and lost the game is disheartening. I just don't have the bandwidth to spend 40 hours per match. Yeah, you can make 4x games run a lot shorter, but it usually feels like you're doing something crazy to the game.

[–] Taako_Tuesday@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I bet it has to do with the average age of the gaming community getting older. I used to play Civ 5, EU4, CK2 all the time in college, when I have tons of free time and didnt care if I was up until 3 in the morning. Now that I have a life and a job, it takes like a week of 1-2 hour sessions to finish a game of civ 5, and the last time I played EU4, I played for several weeks and didnt even finish.

[–] Urist@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have like 3k hours in EU4 (I know, still a normie pleb) and still have not finished a single game.

[–] Taako_Tuesday@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fair, I only ever finished one game

[–] Urist@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

I really do think it has something to do with improper difficulty scaling. Hopefully, we can see a proper ML-model implemented as AI in a strategy game soon.

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