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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
Yeah, not a bad theory this is absolutely a part of it. But I think it *also* works in combination with the game/technology industry learning new stuff as well. 

Something like WoW was unbelievable at the time. *How* on earth did they make the world so *big?!* How was there *so much* to do?!

These days we are not only experiencing personal new stuff less, but the games we are playing are mere incremental increases in technology.

There are improvements, of course, but nothing like loading up WoW for the first time.
gpt
True, when I first started playing fallout 3 I couldn’t believe that all that was fitted into a game world. So much to explore it blew me away and I was hooked. I had the same with Final Fantasy 7. Nowadays the games are just slightly better versions of the last game. Hoping to find something like that some day again but it would need to be an absolute banger!