Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "why I quit being a gamer" video.

  1. As a gamer who has been one since the 80s, starting all the way back with Atari and MSX, the thing is - if you don't care a whole ton about games anymore, I don't think you need to force yourself to be one, particularly given how complex it has become. And it's pretty hard to get in if you are used to what it was back in the 90s. At the same time, I have to say that while what Louis is describing is definitely true for a chunk of the industry... it's also not true for any of the modern gaming I personally do. I never got into microtransactions, massive multiplayer games, games that try to nick and dime you all the time, pre-orders, and a bunch of this newer crap. And I still have way more games to play than time to go at it. Thing is, the gaming industry is extremely oversaturated these days. To the point that you don't have to go for games of these big studios to have fun, you don't have to play triple A titles, you don't have to fall into these predatory practices. You do have to care enough to look for stuff that don't participate in these though... though this is true to pretty much any form of entertainment you chose to go for. But I also think it's a bit of rose tinted nostalgia glasses too. I mean, let's admit some stuff here. For instance, yes, the joycon drift crap is pretty egregious, but it's not like we didn't have all sorts of problems in older consoles and gamepads in the past too. The NES with bad contact pads and blowing on cartridges, Playstation 1 laser head problems, XBox 360 RRoD, Nintendo DS snapping the screen ribbon connector at the hinge... there were plenty of design faults and problems, we just tend to overlook those overtime, or even become fond of it, or make fun of it. And we had to do some level of research on games in the past too, because there were so many crappy titles. xD I still remember some huge deceptions I had in the far past... the Dragon's Lair NES game, Mickey Mousecapade, some other crap I waited an entire year to get a game on my birthday and it was pure sh*t. xD Nowadays I have a thousand or more long Steam backlog, several games I know are good, I got them at steep discounted prices, but I don't have enough time to play them. :P But again, it's all about what you want to do with the limited leisure time you have.
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