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Over three billion people worldwide now play video games, study reports

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Re: Over three billion people worldwide now play video games, study reports

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Post by bostonvaulter2 »

fendy3002 wrote: post #202
TotempaaltJ wrote: post #196

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There are tons of non-intense video games! It's not all shooters, thankfully. Especially building/management style games, turn-based games, and role-playing games can be calm. Personal favorites: FTL: Faster Than Light. Not turn-based, so can get a little heated every now and then but generally pretty calm ime. https://store.steampowered.com/app/212680/FTL_Faster_Than_Li... The Civilization series is all turn based a…

I don't think Factorio is good recommendation here. It's kinda intense with biter on, and trains. Stardew Valley should be the alternative.

Well with factorio it is easy to turn off the biters completely at least.

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Post by worldsayshi »

pen2l wrote: post #110
gsich wrote: post #84

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That can probably be trained away.

Go on, how? I'm getting into boat-sailing, and I'm saddened by the nausea it causes. I'm looking into ways to reduce this, and I'm thinking ways to deal with motion sickness incurred in VR-games is probably applicable to me.

Nausea at sea is definitely something that typically goes away at least after a couple of days at sea. You get "sea legs". But if you're having it more as a now and then hobby I'm not sure but I recon that there's a long term training element in it as well.

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Post by worldsayshi »

mr_toad wrote: post #117
pen2l wrote: post #110

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Go on, how? I'm getting into boat-sailing, and I'm saddened by the nausea it causes. I'm looking into ways to reduce this, and I'm thinking ways to deal with motion sickness incurred in VR-games is probably applicable to me.

I go sailing and don’t get nausea much these days. But VR still makes me queasy after an hour or two.

Add others have hinted, it depends a lot on which games you play, how well they perform and their locomotion mechanics.

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Post by etiam »

wuunderbar wrote: post #130
the_duke wrote: post #118

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Since you liked Horizon Zero Dawn: - Witcher 3 brought me back to gaming after a 10+ year hiatus. While not perfect, it's the best/most immersive game I have ever played. Thanks to truly incredible writing, an interesting, engaging world where small side quests are some of the best content, good graphics that still hold up very well (especially with mods on PC, but just fine on console). All built on a foundation of…

Do you need to play Witcher 1 & 2?

No, but you'd very possibly do yourself a disservice by skipping them. Personally I prefer the first two games over the third in most respects, with notable exceptions for graphical polish and inventory management.

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Post by etiam »

cgrealy wrote: post #183

That 3 billion people play some sort of games (particularly on mobile) is not at all surprising to me. I would guess that number correlates to “90% of people under a certain age (50??) who have access to a device”. That 1.5 billion play games on PC is shocking to me.

It's pretty striking, sure. But depending on how they made the investigation, possibly it includes gaming down to being able to answer yes to questions like 'Have you more than a handful of times opened and used Microsoft Solitaire?', which is of course not what most people think of a PC gaming these days.

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Post by omega3 »

rcpt wrote: post #165
stevenwoo wrote: post #152

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I watched the TV series first, and Witcher 3 has a much better and coherent story than the TV show even though the game picks up after the events of Witcher 1/2. I finished the game mostly for the stories.

tbf the TV show was pretty convoluted with time jumping all over the place

That's because it's based on the books which are a collections of shorter stories (at least the first one iirc).

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Post by oefrha »

axaxs wrote: post #180
oefrha wrote: post #159

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While Linux might not be as unstable as everyone makes it out to be, your argument doesn’t support that at all. The point is Valve maintains Proton so that everyone and their mum doesn’t need to maintain their own Linux fork that’ll bitrot. Without an entity maintaining Proton it could stop working in a few months for all we know.

Yes, and nobody knew how to deploy or use Linux applications until Docker came along and saved us all.

I for one knew how to deploy Linux applications long before Docker but know nothing about the GPU/graphics stack on Linux which is crucial to game devs, and FWIW I ran into graphics problems when I tried Ubuntu Desktop (yeah, just the vanilla Desktop, not gaming) on my Nvidia GPU last year, so again your snarky response contains no relevant info at all.

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Post by glogla »

TotempaaltJ wrote: post #196
gingerlime wrote: post #189

As someone who doesn't play any games at all and looking for a new hobby, would you recommend picking this up as one? if so, which platform/games would you recommend? (something light/fun) some background: I'm 45, I don't think I can handle anything too intense (even watching TV gets my heart pounding, I get too immersed and don't exactly enjoy too much adrenaline); I used to enjoy the Atari console in the 80s and th…

There are tons of non-intense video games! It's not all shooters, thankfully. Especially building/management style games, turn-based games, and role-playing games can be calm. Personal favorites: FTL: Faster Than Light. Not turn-based, so can get a little heated every now and then but generally pretty calm ime. https://store.steampowered.com/app/212680/FTL_Faster_Than_Li... The Civilization series is all turn based a…

Cities Skylines is a wonderful game, but sadly it's going to be a slideshow on MacBook Air, or any MacBook other than 15" with dedicated GPU.

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Post by nottorp »

bjo590 wrote: post #5

> Analysts point out that almost half of the accounted three billion are those who play only on smartphones or mobile devices. This segment is also ahead of all others in terms of growth. This segment is incredibly lucrative for the winners. Niantic has an estimated revenue of 800 million dollars. Supercell's highest reported revenue was just over 2 billion euros. King sold to Activision Blizzard for 5.9 billion doll…

Yeah, Im not sure you can call free to play IAP grindfests “games”. But still, that means 1.5 bn play actual games? Not bad.

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Post by cgrealy »

fendy3002 wrote: post #200
as1mov wrote: post #198

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I think's that number is reasonable considering any PC can be used for gaming with a small investment. Just adding a $100-$150 GPU can make any old PC from the last decade capable of playing games. That's how gaming has usually worked in third world countries at least.

And people usually already have pc for activities outside of gaming. And it's very easy to play any games on pc, and some are free such as open source games and abandonwares (CMIIW).

A quick google says there are 1.5 billion pcs in the world (in 2015). I’m guessing they’re pretty much assuming most people who have a PC have played some form of game on it.
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