Gaming is Dying... This Is why | Video Essay

Gaming is dying, Not in sales or in popularity but in value. There are 4 things that are eating gaming from the inside out. Games like Jedi survivor, Halo Infinite, Cyber Punk and Call of duty are examples of these issues. Not all of this is caused by the Publishers that some hate like Ubisoft or EA. However they definitely indulge into one of these and do painfully so. We have games like Call of duty cold war, Forspoken, Pokemon Scarlet and Violet and Overwatch 2 are more modern examples of games that have crashed and burnt due to the state of them on launch or just aren’t games made for the actual player. Gaming used to be fueled by pure passion and care even from the giants in the industry. From game series like Metal gear, elderscrolls, and Red Dead redemption being genuine examples of games made with love. Sadly this is lost in today's world with some gems existing. So let's discuss the Four Reasons gaming is dying.
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Time Stamps
0:00-1:03 - Intro
1:04-4:15 - Why This Video Exists
4:16-8:27 - The BedRock of the Video
8:28-19:05 - Greed
19:06-29:18 - Unfinished Games
29:19-34:48 - Extreme Criticism
34:49-46:06 - Lack Of Change
46:07-53:46 - I'm Hopeful for the Future

[MGGriff]

Gaming isn't necessarily dying. What I've come to realize is that aaa gaming is headed towards another crash at some point and over time indie developers are becoming the carriers of gaming

[glitch]

Prices are going up and quality is going down.

[octane]

I don’t think gaming is dying but I do believe that most big name franchises are. And who knows maybe it will make way for a even better experience in gaming

[Tyrth_Thegamer]

I think one of my priblems with gaming is just that i have to dish out more money. I am starting to feel like i am being priced out of it.

[dragonslayer]

I love gaming as an adult tbh. No more following releases. Not buying into any hype, not feeling pressured into buying the latest marketing hypetrain. If it looks interesting, I'll wishlist it and buy it on sale. Last year I've only bought Elden ring around summer because of the buzz, and I had a good time. But I have enough games to play and not enough time to play them so it's still fun

[LateralTwitlerLT]

2 things that will *_never_* die:
- games
*_and_*
- people claiming gaming is dying

[Jack_Krauzers]

For me, the best era of gaming were PS2 & mid-PS3 eras. we got everything in one games without any subscription and microtransaction thing. I miss the term "expansion pack"

[polishguywithhardtospellna]

Its amazing, that even when people are not happy with the state of gaming currently, they still wont go back to their backlog of great games, many of which they got for free or pennies.

[astronot]

The film industry has been through this cycle many times. Its the back and forth between Publishers who hold the money and developers who hold the vision. The modern state of the game industry is dying and the new wave is building.

[xTheOneToSaveUsAllx]

Trust issues are a very correct description of what's happening. I can't think of the last time I was excited about something that isn't an indie title. Ten years ago, I would have been hungering to play something like Forspoken, but now it just feels like "oh I guess it was released- it was bad? alright".

[asundelgun]

When we were kids we probably weren't paying for the games. I think its 100% reasonable to ask for something that appears to be doable by all developers and games. They're asking us to pay $70-$100+ for games that don't even work properly half the time. Yes I want all the bells and whistles and everyone should

[HammondCR]

kinda weird how the family that owns ubisoft seems like a bunch of far cry villains

[parawill]

The solution to all of this is to NOT buy at launch and wait for sales prices. I only have a couple of titles that I would purchase full price for at launch, so you might as well add 3 months to any AAA title’s release date. Only purchase full price at launch if the reviews confirm the stability and content is there.

[latte]

""Gaming is dying" is an overstatement. There are definitely problems with the video game industry as you mentioned. However, there is way too much of a focus on big budget studio projects and when these studios fail to deliver as promised, youtubers who only focus on the latest triple A titles feel like the world is ending. There are hundreds of fun games available that don't get enough attention.

[Genethagenius]

It’s sad “AC: Unity” was released so unfinished. The game looked amazing and the improvements to the assassination mechanics and especially the parkour were awesome.

[Doc]

I think that the whole issue with games being put out that run terribly and can't work is because game companies are trying so hard to keep pumping out incredible graphics that their games are starting to get away from the average pc gamer in terms of GPU power. Like all of the streamers say that they don't really have problems with games, but that's because they have the top of the line tech in their computers, which is probably very similar to the test kits QA people use to test the games during development. They need to invest more time into running the games on lower end PCs and figure out how to optimize for that, because they're missing their main demographic by requiring a 4090 to play a game, and even the new Gollum game has that problem, and it's not even a graphically intensive thing. It's ridiculous that game companies keep getting away with this type of stuff, but it takes the consumers to band together and actually vote with our wallets instead of just saying it.

[lifeunderthestarstv]

1. gaming started to lose quality with patches and dlc splitting up the game and enabling companies to release broken games.
2. gamers attitudes started changing for the worse when social media infected gaming (streaming / lets plays) everyone only focused on winning and not how they won, everyone knew the meta for any game and could easily find it, everyone became clout chasers.
3. freemium business model, since the explosion of fortnite games have been shown a whole generation of gamers will happily buy in to a free game and spend $ on skins and gamble with their parents money.
4. gamers like everyone since social media took over, dont listen to anyone, everyone has a main character outlook while most are too dense to see the issues, most are too busy to think about it and most now are too young to remember what console gaming and pc gaming was like before all this trash changed the landscape. we live in a world where everyone wants to have their cake and eat it too by which i mean they want to cry about something and keep using that thing. then the thing keeps getting worse.
did i miss anything?

[jeffy]

I wish they could bring games back to their formal glory. And give us amazing storytelling games.

[xXDoUbLeDDXx]

I've talked to my dad about how much games cost now and he told me in terms of inflation the games when I was a kid were just as expensive and without game rentals he'd never have been able to let me play so many games. Consoles were just as expensive too it's pretty crazy. I'm surprised gaming companies having come up with some sort of digital rental service or something I know it'd work.

[yaboiyuri]

I think the biggest issue with change and the lack of it is burn out. You can highlight this with the AC games. They were too frequent and players got burnt out on them and devs started to struggle with new and interesting ideas and plot points. Now looking past Valhalla, Mirage is going to go back to the “roots” of the series after a long break and now people are excited about playing the same thing they were getting bored of. But the biggest problem here is that they already have 4 more games after it planned. Shareholders love long term and stable plans. And I don’t blame them for that nor do I blame developers being beholden to them. But this combination of longterm planning for all the same games is hurting new and fun ideas in the space. If you look at God of War series as an alternative, it had a long delay before a reboot that revamped a lot of the gameplay while keeping a similar feel and has released only 2 of these games over a 4 year period and no plans for another norse mythology game and people have loved them for it. If developers would supplement their release cycle by doing a “ga release” of something new or different in between their main title launches you’d have a much happier audience and a healthier gaming environment.