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[–] SculptusPoe@lemmy.world 36 points 12 hours ago (5 children)

I have hundreds of games on steam.

I mostly play minecraft.

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 20 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

My games library is so huge, and I suffer from choice paralysis all the time.

[–] gonzo-rand19@moist.catsweat.com 12 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

You might get some use out of this Steam randomizer, I've used it before when I can't pick what to play. You can apply filters too.

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[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

I do not. I haven't played a gamer older than thirty years old in years

[–] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 11 points 10 hours ago

11.35% of the human population.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 12 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (3 children)

It's wild how good the cheap games are these days. I'm 30 hours into playing Noita, have hundreds of hours in Vampire Survivor.

And I got about 15 hours into Dragon Age: Veilguard before it occurred to me I could crack open the Dragon Age Origins Ultimate Edition and actually have an enjoyable experience.

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[–] Naz@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 hours ago

Helldivers 2 came out in 2024

By definition, that's last year, so it's an old game.

Bwuh?

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 17 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Does "older games" only mean the initial public release? So world of Warcraft, Dota 2, Minecraft... all those games that are constantly updated etc. too?

Because that would be a really useless statistic. Many games are not a one time release and done thing anymore. They evolve over time. The games I listed have large player bases.

[–] fishy@lemmy.today 2 points 7 hours ago

Exactly what I was thinking. While it's a great headline the article is nonsense. What about early access? Did those players play any new games? How much time was spent afk? Were those old games new purchases? This is a cherry picked statistic and almost certainly doesn't paint a clear picture or tell any story except "live service games work"

[–] hisao@ani.social 20 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Currently 100% of my time is spent on games that are "six or more years old", and a lot of that is spent on games that are more than 30 years old. But! I'm playing newly-made community content for 30 y/o games. This kind of retrogaming is something that evades Steam statistics entirely because it usually means playing custom sourceports of old games which rarely are on Steam. One old game I play on Steam to contribute to this statistics is Skyrim.

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[–] Nosavingthrow@lemmy.world 17 points 12 hours ago (7 children)

Oh, I'm sorry, I thought I just didn't like games/am depressed/games are getting BETTER, actually.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 10 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

In general, I'd agree that games are getting better, if for no other reason that there are so many made these days that eventually you'll find something great.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 8 points 12 hours ago

If nothing else, the total volume of great games that are available to play keeps increasing because of massive improvements in backwards compatibility through steam and other online game distributors.

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[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 14 points 12 hours ago

I have a large backlog of five(?)+ plus year old games that are really good and I have yet to play. I'd much rather burn through those enjoying them on high settings instead of playing current games on low settings while trying to dodge crap monetization.

[–] nocklobster@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Where my Civ 6 people at?! Wooo!

[–] daddy32@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

I saw a stat on Civ VI steam page today that 45 000 people were playing it at that moment. That counts for something!

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 hours ago

Civ4 is the best Civ.

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[–] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

launches Baldur's Gate.exe ♪♫ "Brave, brave Sir Garrick, Sir Garrick led the way. Brave, brave Sir Garrick, Sir Garrick ran away." ♪♫

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