IDK, I always had a very specific taste in games focused more on JRPGs, 3D mascot platformers, and puzzles. and those niches haven't exactly grown over the decade. So I never really got a chance to feel fatigued in the AAA nor indie spaces because that niche is more in. On the contrary, the platformers seemed to be nearly dead until Crash gave the genre a resurgence.
I'm not as excited for FF16 as I am 15 but that may simply be because of themes (I'm still buying day one tho). FF15 was this modern/steampunk feel mixed with high fantasy and I prefer that over the seemingly medieval/low fantasy feel. But the gap between those games were 7 years (or rather, 5 years if you count FF7R) so I wouldn't say I'm fatigued of big budget JRPGs... because there aren't that many.
Starfield... well, I'm just glad we're getting closer to Fallout 5 :). Never could get really into Elder Scrolls. I'll probably inevitably try out Starfield, but it's not a high priority.
they aren't wrong. It will massively deflate their community. That's an ineivtability of how lurkers on the internet work. They aren't there for community, they are there for easy passive browsing.
"we" as in the common person? It won't be a fast track. There will need to be a steady supply of content for a certain topic, and a stream of discussion. Unfortunately the best way to help as a single person is to basically become that sweaty forever online person. The first step to the Network Effect is to generate enough content to engage with.
If "we" have developers or artists that can be one bigger step to help out. contribute to making apps and extensions to either bridge the gap or overcome current shortcomings of these federated instances. Even amongst techy communities there is a lot of confusion to how instances work. So some app to make it dead simple to browse and comment (while later allowing options for power users) is key. Sync committing to working with Lemmy/KBin is definietly a bit help.
Most of the rest is up to the instance admins. SEO, improving features, getting good moderatiors, etc. None of that is in out control, we can only give feedback