• Godric@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    It’s called World of Warships, pretty sure they check if you fart dust or served on those WW2 ships before they give you an account

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    There seems to be plenty. I don’t even know what the article is talking about. I got games 8 want to play coming out my ass. An old timer with a PC could put in a thousand hours just between NMS and Skyrim stuff. Plus games like slay the spire and boulders gates and rdr2. Stardew Valley, and Kingdome come deliverance 2 and all sorts of rpgs.

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    Grey gamers are just gamers. My old man has been gaming since Pong and today you’ll find his dusty self kicking your ass in Dune: Awakening.

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    “I am 54 years old now,” he said, “and I grew up with games – but I think I was also the first generation that grew up with games. So when I’m going into retirement, when I’m 70 years old, that should be the peak. That should be the peak of our install base, that should be the peak of people that have actually grown up playing games on a daily basis.”

    That’s not how demographics work, buddy

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    All of those games already exist and were made in the 80s/90s

    The game companies are just mad that they can’t profit from them twice

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      17 hours ago

      Atari Pitfall!™ Game of the century ultimate edition + Medicare Battlepass + Dental DLC

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      That, or casual mobile games like ad infested solitaire or candy crush. Hell, I’ve even seen commercials on the old people’s channel in my area for a casino slot machine game on mobile.

      I don’t think we need to look far for games for retired people.

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      Yes they could, they’re just too stupid to do so. Nostalgia sells, companies like Analogue prove that.

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    tl;dr: they are trying to invent a way to get more money from retired people

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    “Nobody’s making games for the retired people”

    Does Facebook not host games anymore?

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    When I worked at Sierra in the late 90s their biggest selling game was Trophy Bass, a fishing simulator. I honestly don’t know anything about the customer demographics but I bet it included a lot of retired people. Another consistent seller was card games, which my boss said were primarily bought by older people. But that was almost 30 years ago.

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    they dont play games though. only few that do make the news somewhat. and usually its "healthy games, like puzzles and word based games.

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      Lol. You’re becoming more full of shit with each year that passes. The majority of people who grew up gaming are about 50 now, and the average gamer age has gone up pretty much every year for the last 30 years. I’m in my 40s now and most of the people I know my age play video games. You think we’re suddenly going to just stop for some reason? if anything it will just increase as we have kids that move out and work fewer hours and slow down on doing as much physical stuff. What you think we plan on doing to pass the time when we’re 65?

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      They increasingly are, because they were gamers growing up.

      Old people 30 years ago didnt understand all the fuss about these newfangled Mario’s, but old people today were those kids.