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Gamers Are Becoming Less Interested in Games With Deep Strategy, Study Finds (www.ign.com)
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[–] Taako_Tuesday@lemmy.ca 16 points 5 months ago (3 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.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Is your username Taako_Tuesday as in The The Adventure Zone character?

[–] Taako_Tuesday@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Correct! You're the first person on Lemmy to get the reference

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

Nice. Good to see another fan in the wild. That season was so good

[–] Urist@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months 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 5 months ago (1 children)

Fair, I only ever finished one game

[–] Urist@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 months 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.

[–] VoterFrog@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I'm in the same boat (as far as free time goes) but I have the opposite outlook. Strategy games, and other games with some amount of crunchy complexity, keep me engaged even when I'm not playing. I can spend some time on wikis, crafting theories, and cooking up plans throughout the week and that keeps me coming back.

I can't do story games because it's too easy to forget what's going on when you spread it out that far. Or there's online action games (shooters, mobas, etc) but it's rare that I can guarantee I'll be on long enough to complete a match.