A new industry report from Epyllion has broken down the video games industry's battle in the attention economy, which it is struggling with.
  • arcine@jlai.luEnglish
    31·
    1 day ago

    Can someone explain to me how cryptocurrencies are even in this fight in the first place ? How are they grabbing and holding people’s attention ? Are they staring at the graphs all day !?

    • Xatolos@reddthat.comEnglish
      8·
      14 hours ago

      Because the article is badly written.

      It’s confusing money spend on X must equal time spent on X.

      The total amount of money spend on video games has gone done but more money is now being spent on things like crypto currency. This is being claimed that it means that people are spending more time on crypto since they are spending more money there. It ignores other issues such as who is spending on what (its countries as a whole, not amlunt on average per user), gaming is more expensive, more games are being made as a live service and are flopping (Highguard anyone?), retro gaming is getting bigger (doesn’t cost a fortune), etc…

      • Bigfishbest@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        12 hours ago

        Totally. Been a gamer for 30+ years, and none of the new stuff holds my interest. Also, my hardware being less than a full time mortgage, means most new games run poorly. So, old stuff it is.