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[Draining Dragon]

What is this obsession with 'hardcore' and 'casual' gamers?

Half the time it just feels like people want to belong to a little exclusive club where they can feel a nice sense of smug superiority.

It's also like this gamergate shite which seems to boil down to we don't want smelly girls in our club - but with extra nastiness.

Maybe I'm just too old to understand all of this now - i just play what want too, regardless.

We all have different preferences and levels of ability. There's nothing wrong with acknowledging that. Sure, some people take it too far, especially in multiplayer games, but that's just the nature of competition and the internet in general. I don't see why people get so worked up about this stuff, or, for that matter, why folks are continuing to harp on Gamergate after all these years. It seems like it's become a bit of a scapegoat, tbh.

[The Hierophant]

We all have different preferences and levels of ability. There's nothing wrong with acknowledging that. Sure, some people take it too far, especially in multiplayer games, but that's just the nature of competition and the internet in general. I don't see why people get so worked up about this stuff, or, for that matter, why folks are continuing to harp on Gamergate after all these years. It seems like it's become a bit of a scapegoat, tbh.

Scapegoat? The ultimate boogieman.

[Cyberstrike nTo]

Wtf does that even mean? Do they mean like how certain games, like Halo, have moved beyond the "gamer shooter fan" audience into a more casual gamer audience? I'm not sure if that would be a good thing for an RPG. Especially for mass effect. It might water it down too much.

I've been playing games since I had a goddamn Atari as a kid. I remember seeing the N64 graphics for the first time and thinking "these graphics are so ****** realistic". I've spent uncountable hours of my life playing video games, literally amounting to months probably.

Now, with a demanding job, I barely have time anymore. The time I do have to play games, I am VERY selective about which games I buy and choose to spend that time on. Before I wasn't.

As gamers get older, more and more of us are in my position. Surely they realize it, and need to cater to a wider audience. Especially with the more "mature" games. And this worries me greatly. I hate to say it, but I am watching this coming news of Andromeda very carefully and cautiously, and if they don't deliver, I won't buy the game.

But as I've said before, I'm cautiously optimistic. I hope it will be awesome. I think it *probably* will be.

 

If video games are to survive publishers and developers need look beyond more than the hardcore gamers to keep the business going. They need casual players, but what they really need is kids or they can become like comic books. Sure we have plenty of comic book and superhero movies and TV shows but how many people who watch Captain America: Civil War are going to buy the actual comics that these characters appear in and/or storylines that some of the movies are based on. Video Games are in that same awkward transition that comics were in the 1990s selling extremely well but constantly trying to prove that they are mature by the mostly by having more graphic violence and sex while trying to deal with any complex real world issues in the most simplistic (and often idiotic) ways possible and demanding that non-gamers take video games seriously as an art form.