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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
I've been studying game theory, fun, and a slew of other things y'all don't even know exist in half these games.

I didn't know fun was a studied thing until about 6 years ago. Like 33 years old and had no idea I could go to school to learn about fun.

But you can. And since fun is a thing I can study, then it's a thing I can manipulate. Eventually, I can master creating it for you.

That's what these games do. A good game developer isn't just a game developer. We know what game design is and we understand the fun curve.

I'm not great at this, and I haven't released a title yet, but I certainly do see why these games are becoming dull. It's not because it's same ol same ol or because we need to touch grass.. it's greed, yet again.

Less time for less research for less ideas for less deliverables. Less new, because more money. Same shit, different day.

WoW is a perfect example of this. We're almost to two decades with this title and they just released a new dlc.

Really? Y'all are buying this? And then complaining about a dull market? This is why it's dull. Lol.

For me, it all leads back to when blizzard nerfed wow for the casuals. I don't have anything against casuals; welcome aboard! But blizzard turned the difficulty down as well as the options on wow and it gained popularity. That signaled to them that they could do less. And they have since.

It's not that we need some grand new world to explore.. it's that we need clever mechanics. We need new fun.

And these old assholes don't have the first idea how to deliver anything but a money suck.
gpt
Class fantasy had been killed in so many games.

I'm not playing a cleric a fighter, a rogue, a gunner, a sniper, whatever. They're all mechanically the same, just different skins on them.

Tried going back to wow (I dropped off a long time ago... Like burning crusade) to relive some nostalgia. Battle for Azeroth. Gameplay was just so boring. Every character had dot. Every character had a heal. Every character had an "oh shit!" Button. So tedious.

After classic launched, I had a great time with that until the economy got botted into oblivion. Spun up a private server when I get the itch again because they have *ruined* that game.