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From: Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Hot New Games Aren't
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2024 10:36:05 -0800
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On 12/23/2024 10:51 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> 
> Everybody loves new games. That's a truism of the industry; it's
> something they depend on and market heavily. Don't miss out, they tell
> is; buy the game now before everybody jumps ship to the next big
> thing.
> 
> Except... apparently that truism isn't quite as true anymore. Steam's
> Year in Review shows that only 15% of the total time spent on games
> was spent on games released in 2024. More than a third of their time
> was spent on games eight or more years old.
> 
> The thing is, new game SALES haven't really decreased. But people are
> spending more time playing their older titles. And games that -just a
> generation ago- would have been declared obsolete and ancient still
> have quite a draw to them.
> 
> There are all sorts of reasons for this and, honestly, I think that
> the sheer number of bots grinding games like TeamFortress and
> CounterStrike for gambling tokens probably skews the numbers quite a
> bit. But the popularity of SteamDeck, the huge influx of free or
> highly-discounted older games, and the malicious monetization of
> modern titles probably are all influential too.
> 
> I certainly have no gripe with this; I've been championing older games
> for years! Go older games; strut your stuff! These new-fangled
> releases ain't got nothin' on you!
> 
> Where do you stand? How many of the games that you played this year
> were released in 2024, and how did that compare in playtime to any
> older games you played?
> 

According to the Steam profile I played 1 new game (2 if you count ER's 
DLC as a game, it's bigger than a lot of games, but technically isn't.) 
out of 12, so 8% (16%.)  Technically EDF 6 which is the one game was 
released 2 years ago, this is just an English re-release. Originally 
Japanese only, but I had the patience to wait for this release, where 
some don't and bought the Japanese edition 2 years ago because they 
couldn't wait, despite not knowing the language beyond such words as 
sushi and arigatou.  So technically you could say I played no new games 
this year.

I played a lot of games elsewhere besides Steam though, there might have 
been an indy game or two that was 'new'.  I was going to say Roboquest 
might have been new, but nope, that was last year.

In 2023 I did play at least one new game - Baldur's Gate 3.

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