The gig is, the current conception of “hardcore” gamers and “casual” gamers is extraordinarily perverted in the first place. The hardcore got turned off by rampant bullshit, and the loser hangers on saw that they were the only ones left and, as such, became the de facto “hardcore”. The actual hardcore, having seen it all already and no longer willing to fund abject stupidity, stopped buying as much as they did. And with that lack of things to buy, their interest dropped; they were pushed out so much that they were at the same distance as non-gamers.

Then something completely fucktarded happened. The de facto hardcore put their cognitive faculties into full swing and concluded that being hardcore did not mean an inexplicable fascination with something inherently cool, but instead simply meant “people dumb enough to pay for this bullshit when they have every reason not to”.

The point finally being, i now dread that all this “casual gamer” shit isn’t going to result in any sort of progress or understanding on the industry’s part. I dread that it’s going to be rather like Valve’s M.O. of paying lipservice to a problem while not actually understanding either the problem or why it was a problem in the first place.

I dread that “casual games” are turning into a new genre, when by all means the term has a very short shelf-life and only exists within the context of the complete idiocy that permeates the industry. In other words, its life as a concept is directly proportional to how long the real problems remain unfixed.

It’s not a new generation, mother fuckers; the new generations are the ones eating your filth and calling it ambrosia for lack of experience. This “casual” thing is largely a matter of the OLD generations finding you all completely intolerable.

The gig is, the current conception of “hardcore” gamers and “casual” gamers is extraordinarily perverted in the first place. The hardcore got turned off by rampant bullshit, and the loser hangers on saw that they were the only ones left and, as such, became the de facto “hardcore”. The actual hardcore, having seen it all already and no longer willing to fund abject stupidity, stopped buying as much as they did. And with that lack of things to buy, their interest dropped; they were pushed out so much that they were at the same distance as non-gamers.

Then something completely fucktarded happened. The de facto hardcore put their cognitive faculties into full swing and concluded that being hardcore did not mean an inexplicable fascination with something inherently cool, but instead simply meant “people dumb enough to pay for this bullshit when they have every reason not to”.

The point finally being, i now dread that all this “casual gamer” shit isn’t going to result in any sort of progress or understanding on the industry’s part. I dread that it’s going to be rather like Valve’s M.O. of paying lipservice to a problem while not actually understanding either the problem or why it was a problem in the first place.

I dread that “casual games” are turning into a new genre, when by all means the term has a very short shelf-life and only exists within the context of the complete idiocy that permeates the industry. In other words, its life as a concept is directly proportional to how long the real problems remain unfixed.

It’s not a new generation, mother fuckers; the new generations are the ones eating your filth and calling it ambrosia for lack of experience. This “casual” thing is largely a matter of the OLD generations finding you all completely intolerable.