stuff happens in gaming repeatedly that
we just see over and over again it gets
popular or it just happens a lot and
some of it really sucks hi folks it’s
Falcon and today on game ranks seven
gaming Trends from 2022 that need to die
last year we did a list of this
um we talked about high GPU prices
server issues scalpers poor to outright
bad rematch
and particularly unfinished games so
let’s get started with number seven game
delays now if the video game industry
could be summed up by one word in 2022
It’s gotta be delayed so many games got
delayed last year it’s almost hard to
believe basically every major release in
2023 that we know about anyway was
supposed to come out in 2022 but got
delayed at some point which is crazy
like remember when Star field was going
to come out 11 11 22 that didn’t happen
Suicide Squad stalker 2 for spoken
Diablo 4 redfall all this stuff was
meant to come out last year but got
pushed back for various reasons even
Nintendo wasn’t immune to it the
long-awaited breath of the wild
follow-up was gonna come out last year
too but that didn’t happen 2022 was the
year uh that was meant to be when Skull
and Bones finally dropped it was finally
supposed to come out but it didn’t
happen that game was originally gonna
come out October 2019 and then it got
pushed to the 2021-2022 fiscal year in
July Ubisoft finally gave a solid
release date November 8th 2022 seemed
sure fire that was the first time they
really ever did that but no that got
pushed back again like this is a game
that could be good but like because of
this it’s hard to get really high hopes
for because you only ever really hear
about its troubled production and maybe
a few random jokes at its expense but
fingers crossed that it actually comes
out for real this time I think it could
very well like I said be a very good
game but I kind of just want like to say
that it’s a real game now the delays are
at least understandable last year we
were still dealing with the Fallout from
the pandemic and that hurt productivity
crossed basically you have read single
industry but the video game industry
really struggled to deal with covet
related issues and it kind of compounded
and all happened last year now delays
suck but but at the end of the day if we
get a better game because of it I I’m
more for the delay than releasing The
Unfinished game but I’m just gonna say
this don’t say You’re Gonna release a
game that you don’t think you can have a
hundred percent finished in good quality
at the time you’re claiming you’re gonna
release the game is it that hard to
understand this one
at number six Studio Acquisitions and
mergers it seems like every week in 2022
we heard about a new acquisition
happening for whatever reason 2022 was
the Year big names and gaming like Sony
and Microsoft decided to go all in on
consolidation seems like everybody was
buying everyone else they’re all these
crazy stories about buyouts that
previously seemed completely impossible
but now anything seems possible anyone
could buy anyone else the ominously
named embracer group scooped up any devs
they could get their hands on in 2022
and they’ve become one of the biggest
game companies of all time seriously
they have over 10 000 employees now in
2022 their most high profile acquisition
was Square annexes Western properties
and developers which gave them rights to
Major series like Deus Ex and Tomb
Raider Tomb Raider a lot of people
thought Square Enix had mismanaged the
Western Studios so saw the acquisition
as a positive especially because it
happened around the Time Square Enix was
talking about getting into the nft
market but nobody can really say for
certain how popular Studios like Crystal
Dynamics and the idos Montreal are gonna
do one during management that said uh
yeah I think it could probably be a net
positive hopefully anyways another major
story happened near the beginning of the
year with take two buying the mobile
game company Zynga for a massive 12.7
billion at the time this was by far the
biggest deal in gaming history but the
year was just getting started a month
later Microsoft announced easily the
biggest acquisition of all time they’re
planning on buying Activision Blizzard
for 68.7 billion which would give
Microsoft an Xbox control over major
franchises like Diablo OverWatch and uh
Call of Duty remember in in 2021
Microsoft scooped up to Bethesda was
like a 7 billion dollar thing and I was
like wow they bought Bethesda but I mean
that was nothing compared to this this
story basically dominated gaming news
most of last year and it’s probably
going to continue too you this year when
Sony bought up Destiny and Halo
developer Bungie for 3.6 billion it
almost seemed quaint but it’s just
another way that it feels like the games
industry is getting smaller while also
getting bigger you got these huge
Publishers consolidating and that’s good
for services like Xbox game pass because
it means more free games but it’s also a
little concerning like pretty much all
of the entertainment choices seem like
they’re being Consolidated into like two
or three companies and right now it’s
impossible to say exactly what effect
all these buyouts and Acquisitions are
really gonna have but 2022 saw some of
the biggest moves yet and by yet I mean
of all time and it’s kind of scary
imagining things going further with a
few Mega companies having a Stranglehold
on the entire gaming arcade I’m not sure
if that’s how things are gonna shake out
but yeah I mean who even knows if that
would negatively affect the quality of
the games or not but it’s kind of weird
and troubling either way
and number five two years later we’re
still in the last gem in 2020 we finally
got our hands on the next generation of
consoles the Xbox series and the
PlayStation 5 two days apart what was
supposed to be this big generational
shift though never really materialized
and it’s two years later and we’re still
mostly playing cross-platform games
almost every major release this year was
cross-platform Horizon God of War Elden
ring Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Dying
Light 2 Callisto protocol basically if
you can name it and it wasn’t a Nintendo
exclusive it was probably cross-platform
only a few games managed to come out
this year that were next gen exclusive
like ghost War Tokyo and a plague tail
Requiem the only major Sony exclusive
that was PS5 only was Last of Us Part
One and that game’s been remade for
PlayStation 4 and was originally on a
PlayStation 3. we’ve seen it it looks
beautiful now compared to how I used to
but we’ve seen it before there really
were some amazing looking games in 2022
and even some of the ones I mentioned
that are cross platform the next gen
version does look significantly better
but they’re not reaching their full
potential if they’re developing
simultaneously for the last gen in this
one like the last generation of Hardware
is almost 10 years old so if you’re
developing simultaneously for both I
mean the game’s not gonna really feel
next gen even if the next gen version
looks a lot better Callisto protocol
comes to mind now there is obviously a
reason why a lot of these games are
cross-platform console shortages were a
huge problem throughout 2021 and two so
these developers wanted to make it so
more people could play their games and
that’s an admirable goal but it was a
bummer for everybody who dropped 500
bucks plus on release day for an x-gen
system and we see like game demos like
that nanite one for Unreal Engine and
we’re thinking wow this is what the next
gen is gonna look like and it’s two
years too late at this point but it does
look at least like 2023 is gonna be when
we see much more exclusives for the PS5
and Xbox series and when they maybe be
able to actually officially call this
the next gen for real
and number four is characters who will
not shut up 2022 was the year the
blabbermouth characters narrating over
everything
um I mean it’s always been one of those
minor annoyances that we’ve seen in
gaming through the years but this is
here where a lot of Gamers started to
get fed up with it first game of 2022
where the amount of talking got on
people’s nerves I think was Horizon
forbidden West the main character just
talks uh through everything absolutely
everything no matter how mundane it is
it was kind of impressive how she’d
remember if you’d been somewhere before
or mention if an area is completed but
when the game starts solving puzzles for
you that’s when the talking goes from
intrusive but may be acceptable to kind
of infuriating this one’s more of a
personal thing some people won’t even
register the amount of character
dialogue while for other people it’s
like nails on a chalkboard uh God of War
Ragnarok kinda ran into similar troubles
with characters constantly telling you
where to go and what to do in such a way
that was distracting rather than helpful
like everyone loves mimir but he did
really not need to remind Kratos that
he’s on fire every time he didn’t most
these games at least give an option to
turn down the frequency of the dialogue
but for a lot of people the damage was
done
um high on life great game I uh I was
favorable towards it although I had
minor complaints about how it would have
been nice if they just knew when to edit
a little bit it was thankfully one of
those games where you could turn down
the frequency and a lot of the time it’s
an extreme level of hand-holding and it
was especially odd because one of the
year’s most popular games Elder ring
just had no hand holding and that’s not
to say Alden ring is superior to those
games these are great games we’re
talking about just the frequency of the
talking was probably over tuned that’s
not even mentioning games like Xenoblade
Chronicles or Tiny Tina’s wonderlands
high on life had its charm to it that
those games kinda I don’t know didn’t
like I wasn’t laughing during Xenoblade
Chronicles 3 and Tiny Tina’s Wonderland
wow funny isn’t his funny is high in
life like all these games though they
could just be a cacophony of noise at
the worst moments 2022 wasn’t the year
that invented this but it was the year
where people started to get sick of it
at number three is the Nintendo switch’s
big performance problem yeah tough gear
for the little hybrid Nintendo uh also
one of the systems best like just
talking about games 2022 was one of the
all-time best years for the system
there’s really a lot of fantastic
exclusives but the performance issues of
the hardware stop being a minor
annoyance and started being a big
problem wasn’t just Little Indie Games
third party titles that had rough frame
rates and visuals first party titles are
now struggling too like Fire Emblem 3
hopes Pokemon Legends Arceus and
especially Pokemon scarlet and violet I
don’t know if we’d even be talking about
this as much if scarlet and violet
looked like Arceus which is like I said
a problem but not the kind of problem
those games are and it really brought
attention to this issue uh the newest
entry in the main Pokemon series really
had a hard time at release there was
constant pop in there’s ugly textures
low resolution visuals and uh of bad
frame rates and there’s still a lot of
technical issues the game struggles with
the performance was so bad people were
legitimately worried about the new
Legend of Zelda game personally I’m not
too worried about that one because
Xenoblade 3 looked really good and if
anyone is capable of working Magic from
the switch Hardware it’s the breath of
the wild team but also keep in mind
sometimes breath of the wild dips a fair
amount in frame rate too and that game
is from 2017. and while there are games
that work well and look fine there’s a
lot of other games that are just plain
rough Sonic Frontiers very inconsistent
frame rate Blade Runner enhanced Edition
Port was a disaster Lego brawls got
really bad reviews for performance uh we
need a switch too I think part of owning
a switch at this point is accepting
lower frame rates and less impressive
Graphics but in 2022 some switch games
just barely seem to work like tears of
the Kingdom really really hope and that
isn’t a problem with it also when they
do announce a switch to it’s gonna have
to have backwards compatibility I don’t
see them wanting to put one out without
it or I don’t know maybe switch Pro I
don’t know tears the kingdom be good
switch Pro switch too soon please all of
this
and number two is price increases
normally as gaming Hardware evolves and
production techniques become more common
the prices of things like Hardware is
supposed to go down but in 2022 we saw a
lot of uh unprecedented price increases
two years later you’d expect to see some
kind of discount on the price of a
PlayStation 5 but it’s actually more
expensive in certain International
markets PlayStation blames inflation and
recession concerns for the price but it
still sucks that there are people that
were forced to wait two years because of
shortages uh and it just not going down
in price at all another piece of
Hardware that got more expensive was The
Meta Quest 2 meta VR headset the price
jumped a hundred bucks with the basic
models price going from 299 to 3.99 like
PlayStation it’s supposedly production
and shipping costs but yeah it wasn’t
just Hardware that saw price increases
either Steam games in certain regions
also saw increased prices sometimes by
like a hundred times the original amount
this is partially because valve’s new
price calculator estimate mates what
developers should charge for games per
region uh it’s just an estimate and devs
don’t have to use it but a lot of them
did and certain games really ballooned
in price I know steam’s trying to crack
down on people taking advantage of
prices being a lot lower in certain
regions but some of these prices are
just ridiculous it’s bad enough pretty
much everything costs more now but at
least let us buy games at a reasonable
price
and finally at number one nfts in gaming
if there’s one gaming Trend that should
definitely die in 2023 it’s nfts in
games if you don’t know what an nft is
good for you the basics is that nft
stands for non-fungible token which is a
unique digital identifier that’s
recorded on a blockchain and used to
identify ownership what this has to do
with games is that you can attach nfts
to pictures or in-game objects which is
supposed to make them unique which gives
them value allegedly the nft is unique
but the picture or in-game item they’re
connected to isn’t so it’s a whole weird
thing there’s 50 minute YouTube videos
that can explain this better than I can
but the main takeaway here is that nfts
are kind of another way to add in
monetization like worse DLC the major
selling point is that nfts give players
complete ownership of what they buy
because it’s in the blockchain it can’t
be duplicated and you could potentially
take an item you buy in one game and
transfer it to another game perhaps in
practice that doesn’t work because
you’re basically buying the receipt not
the item itself and if developers want
to make it so you can use stuff you can
buy in another game sure yeah but they’d
have to implement that like in code
themselves it’s not something that just
happened because of the blockchain has
to be programmed the assets have to be
in both games yada yada so you run into
issues like why would developer of game
a want to waste their time making some
item for game B in game a especially
when they’re not going to make money
from it the whole thing feels like a
bunch of empty promises from people who
have a vested interest in seeing nfts
succeed and not because they’re actually
something people want you ever hear the
skin crawling phrase play to earn those
are primarily nft games in 2022 it seems
like investors saw dollar signs and went
nft crazy thinking this was the way to
make video games basically print money
for them like Ubisoft jumped into the
nft market full force with quartz where
you could buy unique Ghost Recon guns
for real world cash don’t think
backfired because nobody bought them
because why why would we want them and
while the website’s still there it
remains in beta and it’s mostly
abandoned Square Enix president yosuke
matsuda he’s all in on nfts all he
talked about last year is plans to adapt
nft crap to popular franchises and no
one wants it but this man is like I want
it there’s one big problem in 2022 the
nft market complete collapsed The Wall
Street Journal reported the nft token
sales ahead declined by 92 percent and
the number of active wallets had dropped
by 88 in the previous year combine that
with the overall crash of the crypto
market and the miserable decline of the
crypto Bank FTX and its founder Sam
bankman freed who’s currently facing
multiple counts of Fraud and things are
not looking so hot for nft games Square
Enix is still pretending like they’re
all about nfts but we’ll see how how
long that lasts hopefully not long back
in early 2022 it seemed like nfts were
going to be inescapable but it does seem
like they’re kind of a forgotten
footnote going into 2023 thankfully uh
just a thing that dominated the news for
a while and disappeared just as quickly
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Gaming Trends from 2022 that need to die last year we did a list of this
stuff happens in gaming repeatedly that
we just see over and over again it gets
popular or it just happens a lot and
some of it really sucks hi folks it’s
Falcon and today on game ranks seven
gaming Trends from 2022 that need to die
last year we did a list of this
um we talked about high GPU prices
server issues scalpers poor to outright
bad rematch
and particularly unfinished games so
let’s get started with number seven game
delays now if the video game industry
could be summed up by one word in 2022
It’s gotta be delayed so many games got
delayed last year it’s almost hard to
believe basically every major release in
2023 that we know about anyway was
supposed to come out in 2022 but got
delayed at some point which is crazy
like remember when Star field was going
to come out 11 11 22 that didn’t happen
Suicide Squad stalker 2 for spoken
Diablo 4 redfall all this stuff was
meant to come out last year but got
pushed back for various reasons even
Nintendo wasn’t immune to it the
long-awaited breath of the wild
follow-up was gonna come out last year
too but that didn’t happen 2022 was the
year uh that was meant to be when Skull
and Bones finally dropped it was finally
supposed to come out but it didn’t
happen that game was originally gonna
come out October 2019 and then it got
pushed to the 2021-2022 fiscal year in
July Ubisoft finally gave a solid
release date November 8th 2022 seemed
sure fire that was the first time they
really ever did that but no that got
pushed back again like this is a game
that could be good but like because of
this it’s hard to get really high hopes
for because you only ever really hear
about its troubled production and maybe
a few random jokes at its expense but
fingers crossed that it actually comes
out for real this time I think it could
very well like I said be a very good
game but I kind of just want like to say
that it’s a real game now the delays are
at least understandable last year we
were still dealing with the Fallout from
the pandemic and that hurt productivity
crossed basically you have read single
industry but the video game industry
really struggled to deal with covet
related issues and it kind of compounded
and all happened last year now delays
suck but but at the end of the day if we
get a better game because of it I I’m
more for the delay than releasing The
Unfinished game but I’m just gonna say
this don’t say You’re Gonna release a
game that you don’t think you can have a
hundred percent finished in good quality
at the time you’re claiming you’re gonna
release the game is it that hard to
understand this one
at number six Studio Acquisitions and
mergers it seems like every week in 2022
we heard about a new acquisition
happening for whatever reason 2022 was
the Year big names and gaming like Sony
and Microsoft decided to go all in on
consolidation seems like everybody was
buying everyone else they’re all these
crazy stories about buyouts that
previously seemed completely impossible
but now anything seems possible anyone
could buy anyone else the ominously
named embracer group scooped up any devs
they could get their hands on in 2022
and they’ve become one of the biggest
game companies of all time seriously
they have over 10 000 employees now in
2022 their most high profile acquisition
was Square annexes Western properties
and developers which gave them rights to
Major series like Deus Ex and Tomb
Raider Tomb Raider a lot of people
thought Square Enix had mismanaged the
Western Studios so saw the acquisition
as a positive especially because it
happened around the Time Square Enix was
talking about getting into the nft
market but nobody can really say for
certain how popular Studios like Crystal
Dynamics and the idos Montreal are gonna
do one during management that said uh
yeah I think it could probably be a net
positive hopefully anyways another major
story happened near the beginning of the
year with take two buying the mobile
game company Zynga for a massive 12.7
billion at the time this was by far the
biggest deal in gaming history but the
year was just getting started a month
later Microsoft announced easily the
biggest acquisition of all time they’re
planning on buying Activision Blizzard
for 68.7 billion which would give
Microsoft an Xbox control over major
franchises like Diablo OverWatch and uh
Call of Duty remember in in 2021
Microsoft scooped up to Bethesda was
like a 7 billion dollar thing and I was
like wow they bought Bethesda but I mean
that was nothing compared to this this
story basically dominated gaming news
most of last year and it’s probably
going to continue too you this year when
Sony bought up Destiny and Halo
developer Bungie for 3.6 billion it
almost seemed quaint but it’s just
another way that it feels like the games
industry is getting smaller while also
getting bigger you got these huge
Publishers consolidating and that’s good
for services like Xbox game pass because
it means more free games but it’s also a
little concerning like pretty much all
of the entertainment choices seem like
they’re being Consolidated into like two
or three companies and right now it’s
impossible to say exactly what effect
all these buyouts and Acquisitions are
really gonna have but 2022 saw some of
the biggest moves yet and by yet I mean
of all time and it’s kind of scary
imagining things going further with a
few Mega companies having a Stranglehold
on the entire gaming arcade I’m not sure
if that’s how things are gonna shake out
but yeah I mean who even knows if that
would negatively affect the quality of
the games or not but it’s kind of weird
and troubling either way
and number five two years later we’re
still in the last gem in 2020 we finally
got our hands on the next generation of
consoles the Xbox series and the
PlayStation 5 two days apart what was
supposed to be this big generational
shift though never really materialized
and it’s two years later and we’re still
mostly playing cross-platform games
almost every major release this year was
cross-platform Horizon God of War Elden
ring Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Dying
Light 2 Callisto protocol basically if
you can name it and it wasn’t a Nintendo
exclusive it was probably cross-platform
only a few games managed to come out
this year that were next gen exclusive
like ghost War Tokyo and a plague tail
Requiem the only major Sony exclusive
that was PS5 only was Last of Us Part
One and that game’s been remade for
PlayStation 4 and was originally on a
PlayStation 3. we’ve seen it it looks
beautiful now compared to how I used to
but we’ve seen it before there really
were some amazing looking games in 2022
and even some of the ones I mentioned
that are cross platform the next gen
version does look significantly better
but they’re not reaching their full
potential if they’re developing
simultaneously for the last gen in this
one like the last generation of Hardware
is almost 10 years old so if you’re
developing simultaneously for both I
mean the game’s not gonna really feel
next gen even if the next gen version
looks a lot better Callisto protocol
comes to mind now there is obviously a
reason why a lot of these games are
cross-platform console shortages were a
huge problem throughout 2021 and two so
these developers wanted to make it so
more people could play their games and
that’s an admirable goal but it was a
bummer for everybody who dropped 500
bucks plus on release day for an x-gen
system and we see like game demos like
that nanite one for Unreal Engine and
we’re thinking wow this is what the next
gen is gonna look like and it’s two
years too late at this point but it does
look at least like 2023 is gonna be when
we see much more exclusives for the PS5
and Xbox series and when they maybe be
able to actually officially call this
the next gen for real
and number four is characters who will
not shut up 2022 was the year the
blabbermouth characters narrating over
everything
um I mean it’s always been one of those
minor annoyances that we’ve seen in
gaming through the years but this is
here where a lot of Gamers started to
get fed up with it first game of 2022
where the amount of talking got on
people’s nerves I think was Horizon
forbidden West the main character just
talks uh through everything absolutely
everything no matter how mundane it is
it was kind of impressive how she’d
remember if you’d been somewhere before
or mention if an area is completed but
when the game starts solving puzzles for
you that’s when the talking goes from
intrusive but may be acceptable to kind
of infuriating this one’s more of a
personal thing some people won’t even
register the amount of character
dialogue while for other people it’s
like nails on a chalkboard uh God of War
Ragnarok kinda ran into similar troubles
with characters constantly telling you
where to go and what to do in such a way
that was distracting rather than helpful
like everyone loves mimir but he did
really not need to remind Kratos that
he’s on fire every time he didn’t most
these games at least give an option to
turn down the frequency of the dialogue
but for a lot of people the damage was
done
um high on life great game I uh I was
favorable towards it although I had
minor complaints about how it would have
been nice if they just knew when to edit
a little bit it was thankfully one of
those games where you could turn down
the frequency and a lot of the time it’s
an extreme level of hand-holding and it
was especially odd because one of the
year’s most popular games Elder ring
just had no hand holding and that’s not
to say Alden ring is superior to those
games these are great games we’re
talking about just the frequency of the
talking was probably over tuned that’s
not even mentioning games like Xenoblade
Chronicles or Tiny Tina’s wonderlands
high on life had its charm to it that
those games kinda I don’t know didn’t
like I wasn’t laughing during Xenoblade
Chronicles 3 and Tiny Tina’s Wonderland
wow funny isn’t his funny is high in
life like all these games though they
could just be a cacophony of noise at
the worst moments 2022 wasn’t the year
that invented this but it was the year
where people started to get sick of it
at number three is the Nintendo switch’s
big performance problem yeah tough gear
for the little hybrid Nintendo uh also
one of the systems best like just
talking about games 2022 was one of the
all-time best years for the system
there’s really a lot of fantastic
exclusives but the performance issues of
the hardware stop being a minor
annoyance and started being a big
problem wasn’t just Little Indie Games
third party titles that had rough frame
rates and visuals first party titles are
now struggling too like Fire Emblem 3
hopes Pokemon Legends Arceus and
especially Pokemon scarlet and violet I
don’t know if we’d even be talking about
this as much if scarlet and violet
looked like Arceus which is like I said
a problem but not the kind of problem
those games are and it really brought
attention to this issue uh the newest
entry in the main Pokemon series really
had a hard time at release there was
constant pop in there’s ugly textures
low resolution visuals and uh of bad
frame rates and there’s still a lot of
technical issues the game struggles with
the performance was so bad people were
legitimately worried about the new
Legend of Zelda game personally I’m not
too worried about that one because
Xenoblade 3 looked really good and if
anyone is capable of working Magic from
the switch Hardware it’s the breath of
the wild team but also keep in mind
sometimes breath of the wild dips a fair
amount in frame rate too and that game
is from 2017. and while there are games
that work well and look fine there’s a
lot of other games that are just plain
rough Sonic Frontiers very inconsistent
frame rate Blade Runner enhanced Edition
Port was a disaster Lego brawls got
really bad reviews for performance uh we
need a switch too I think part of owning
a switch at this point is accepting
lower frame rates and less impressive
Graphics but in 2022 some switch games
just barely seem to work like tears of
the Kingdom really really hope and that
isn’t a problem with it also when they
do announce a switch to it’s gonna have
to have backwards compatibility I don’t
see them wanting to put one out without
it or I don’t know maybe switch Pro I
don’t know tears the kingdom be good
switch Pro switch too soon please all of
this
and number two is price increases
normally as gaming Hardware evolves and
production techniques become more common
the prices of things like Hardware is
supposed to go down but in 2022 we saw a
lot of uh unprecedented price increases
two years later you’d expect to see some
kind of discount on the price of a
PlayStation 5 but it’s actually more
expensive in certain International
markets PlayStation blames inflation and
recession concerns for the price but it
still sucks that there are people that
were forced to wait two years because of
shortages uh and it just not going down
in price at all another piece of
Hardware that got more expensive was The
Meta Quest 2 meta VR headset the price
jumped a hundred bucks with the basic
models price going from 299 to 3.99 like
PlayStation it’s supposedly production
and shipping costs but yeah it wasn’t
just Hardware that saw price increases
either Steam games in certain regions
also saw increased prices sometimes by
like a hundred times the original amount
this is partially because valve’s new
price calculator estimate mates what
developers should charge for games per
region uh it’s just an estimate and devs
don’t have to use it but a lot of them
did and certain games really ballooned
in price I know steam’s trying to crack
down on people taking advantage of
prices being a lot lower in certain
regions but some of these prices are
just ridiculous it’s bad enough pretty
much everything costs more now but at
least let us buy games at a reasonable
price
and finally at number one nfts in gaming
if there’s one gaming Trend that should
definitely die in 2023 it’s nfts in
games if you don’t know what an nft is
good for you the basics is that nft
stands for non-fungible token which is a
unique digital identifier that’s
recorded on a blockchain and used to
identify ownership what this has to do
with games is that you can attach nfts
to pictures or in-game objects which is
supposed to make them unique which gives
them value allegedly the nft is unique
but the picture or in-game item they’re
connected to isn’t so it’s a whole weird
thing there’s 50 minute YouTube videos
that can explain this better than I can
but the main takeaway here is that nfts
are kind of another way to add in
monetization like worse DLC the major
selling point is that nfts give players
complete ownership of what they buy
because it’s in the blockchain it can’t
be duplicated and you could potentially
take an item you buy in one game and
transfer it to another game perhaps in
practice that doesn’t work because
you’re basically buying the receipt not
the item itself and if developers want
to make it so you can use stuff you can
buy in another game sure yeah but they’d
have to implement that like in code
themselves it’s not something that just
happened because of the blockchain has
to be programmed the assets have to be
in both games yada yada so you run into
issues like why would developer of game
a want to waste their time making some
item for game B in game a especially
when they’re not going to make money
from it the whole thing feels like a
bunch of empty promises from people who
have a vested interest in seeing nfts
succeed and not because they’re actually
something people want you ever hear the
skin crawling phrase play to earn those
are primarily nft games in 2022 it seems
like investors saw dollar signs and went
nft crazy thinking this was the way to
make video games basically print money
for them like Ubisoft jumped into the
nft market full force with quartz where
you could buy unique Ghost Recon guns
for real world cash don’t think
backfired because nobody bought them
because why why would we want them and
while the website’s still there it
remains in beta and it’s mostly
abandoned Square Enix president yosuke
matsuda he’s all in on nfts all he
talked about last year is plans to adapt
nft crap to popular franchises and no
one wants it but this man is like I want
it there’s one big problem in 2022 the
nft market complete collapsed The Wall
Street Journal reported the nft token
sales ahead declined by 92 percent and
the number of active wallets had dropped
by 88 in the previous year combine that
with the overall crash of the crypto
market and the miserable decline of the
crypto Bank FTX and its founder Sam
bankman freed who’s currently facing
multiple counts of Fraud and things are
not looking so hot for nft games Square
Enix is still pretending like they’re
all about nfts but we’ll see how how
long that lasts hopefully not long back
in early 2022 it seemed like nfts were
going to be inescapable but it does seem
like they’re kind of a forgotten
footnote going into 2023 thankfully uh
just a thing that dominated the news for
a while and disappeared just as quickly
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