SilentJay76 said:TymanTheLong said:I don’t know what this says about the gaming industry, perhaps it couldn’t sustain itself at this size without gamers constantly lighting their money on fire but overall it’s a bad situation.
"Gamers" in general is not the same as "achievement hunters" on this site, though.
Most gamers either have Game Pass, or they buy maybe 3-4 games a year. Heck, half of them only ever play Fortnite, COD or FIFA.
Not all gamers spend a ton of cash on F2P mobile games either but enough do, even aside from whales, that it’s a big market that supports thousands of titles, even pretty questionable ones.
Don’t make the mistake of thinking achievement hunters (or rather those compulsively impelled to spend money on games that offer easy achievements) are solely here on TA, I would guess the minority of them are. Beyond that achievement hunters are far from the only people buying sale games that we don’t play. In fact we’re the minority of that group.
Steam has made an entire business on selling titles to people that they never play with their sales. Heck, they even added meta sale achievements for stuff like their Summer Sale for stuff like gifting games, buying cash in your Steam Wallet, and just buying X number of games on sale.
Achievements are a subsection of this group, but I am talking about a much larger group. While I’m familiar with the research you cite that’s only part of the market and there’s a very lucrative different part of the market to which I’m referring in my original comment.