this post was submitted on 08 May 2026
856 points (99.1% liked)

Technology

84687 readers
5358 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
856
More Than Half of Gen Z Users Cancel and Renew Streaming Services for a Single Title, Won’t Purchase Full-Price Video Games, New Study Finds (variety.com)
submitted 1 week ago by sanitation@lemmy.radio to c/technology@lemmy.world
267 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] MysticKetchup@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

One issue with video games now is that there are so many and they all take so much time to play now. And since companies push out games so quickly there's no point buying anything before they push out a patch to fix all the bugs in the initial release, might as well use that time to play some of the games I already have and then pick up what I want on sale.

I'll happily pay full price for a short, creative indie game, but that's already probably much cheaper than a big budget game anyways

[–] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah my backlog is so big now that I could probably be happy without ever buying another game. Of course there are some I still will just from being a fan of the ip or if something really interesting comes out but yeah I'm certainly not rushing out the door to grab it.

[–] Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Honestly what irritates me the most in gaming nowadays is the updates.

It's so fucking annoying to come back to a multiplayer games and have to update several gigs before I can finally play.

The issue isn't even that it takes long to download and install them, it's the sheer amount of updates I get that bothers me.

[–] MysticKetchup@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Everything has to be live service now. Can't even blame it solely on the companies themselves, a game will go a few months without updating and I'll see people online calling it a dead game