PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now
Feels like Destiny.
I wouldn't call a game that came out in 2023 "old".
I'm building an arcade stand I can put in front of my TV so I can play emulated games with my kids. I could not care less about most of the new games coming out these days.
GPU prices priced me out of the top of the PC gaming market, got new hobbies now.
Love to see metrics im apart of. I only play TF2, Minecraft and emulate PS2 games nowadays.
A lot of my friends weren't into the shift from Fallout 3's third person open world to the original game's isometric perspective; Understandable, but that's what I grew up on. I enjoy revisiting 1 & 2 every other year or so. Also, Sid Meiers Pirates hadn't adapted well to modern systems, but has a clean gameplay loop that I enjoy revisiting.
Their metric for "older" is two years or more.
There is something satisfying about going back and cranking Far Cry 2 or some other older game to max settings / 4k with an extremely modest GPU.
- 7.1% of the total hours spent were on Counter-Strike: Global Offensive / Counter-Strike 2
- 6.4% were in League of Legends
- 6.2% were in Roblox
- 5.8% were in Dota 2
- 5.4% were in Fortnite
Proud to say I don't play any of those. Screw live service games, there are plenty of other gems out there to keep me entertained.
Valve have worked so hard to disgust me away from dota 2, they're so real for this ❤️
I'd say don't yuck someone's yum but I tried league of legends years ago and it's why I avoid any game that makes me interact with strangers.
What counts as an "older game?" Surely not... thinks about the games I played last week ...Tie Fighter or Dune 2?
Actual answer:
The data shows that from January 2024 to December 2024, 67% of player hours on PC were spent on a game that was six or more years old. A further 25% of player hours were spent on games that were two to five years old, and the remaining 8% of time was spent on games that are less than two years old.
Sample:
The results are extrapolated from a yearly in-depth survey of 73,000 players, alongside data from over 10,000 games
More than 5 years old includes all the major live service titles at this point, back in the day people would be hopping to whatever new COD/Battlefield just came out, which would lock that metric to 2-3 years max. Since Moore's law is long dead at this point the technology just doesn't improve much year over year, and it's hard to sell a new minor iteration on a game without flashy visual upgrades, the old model just doesn't really make sense anymore.
I've been playing Unreal Gold from 1998. I never finished it.
Baldur’s Gate 2 forever. 🖤
Dungeon Keeper 4 lyfe
Dungeon Keeper 2 is good in its own way but definitely lost some of its original magic.
There was an indie series called Overlord (I think, can't quite recall) which tried to be a Cities: Skyline type homage to Dungeon Keeper. I played it many years ago and it did scratch the same itch so you might be interested.
"Buffy Oak. A small location where the people just sit around all day and enjoy each other's company. They talk, laugh, and sing without ever arguing, drawing daggers, and dying in a gurgling rush of blood. A truly bizarre place."
I need to try that after I make my way through Planescape. I started BG1, but it just didn't jibe with me all that much, which apparently is true for a lot of people. I probably should've just jumped to BG2.
I should do another run soon. Maybe add some more mods this time...
Played left 4 dead 2 last night with friends. Still awesome
Still hate spitters though.
PvP jockeys are the real menace
I'm playing Bloodborne for the first time (emulator). Before that I was playing Far Cry 1 for the first time as well. Far cry was much harder, so far at least.
What emulator are you using? Only one I've seen was PCSX4 and according to a lot of stuff I saw online, it's a pretty outright scam
Far Cry 1 is the best one! It was made by crytek, the same studio that did Crysis. I still occasionally go back to replay that game. It's really fun.
My favorite aspect was the B-movie feel to the whole thing. I was dying when my character got punted right in the face out of a flying helicopter. I wish I could find more games with some humor like that.
Elden Ring and Poe2 are like the only recent games on PC I've cared about
Baldurs Gate 3 was good. And I hear good things about Kingdom Come Deliverance 2.
