Vidya fucking died the instant streamers became popular and mainstream

then why are you here?
go to a hobby board

Video games died with 7th generation consoles you fucking retard. 7th gen was the rise of big AAA and big western publishers shitting up the industry in any way they could. With 7th gen also came hordes of fucking retards who would swallow and eat the shit of anything western AAA devs did.

no wonder Zig Forums's shit, idiots like you keep coming here to complain like everyone's about to cater to your every stupid whim despite the fact that you don't play games anymore

It died when Let's players became popular. Steaming is merely the next stage of the cancer.

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Vidya got shot when graphicsfags won and 3D became a thing, was kicked in the face while lying on the ground bleeding out when Microsoft decided to charge for online, was gutted by a pack of stray dogs in an alley behind a McDonald's when companies decided to go down the casual route, taking away everything good about games, and had it's dick chopped off and shoved in it's mouth, smothering the last bit of life out of it's warmed over near corpse when mobiletrash took to the MTX/live service path and made a mint encouraging actual games to retardize themselves in the same way.

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But video games are still alive and more popular than ever

I gotta disagree. The benefit to streamers becoming more popular is that most people now see video games for what they are on release day, preferring this method of deciding what games to buy instead of reading an article from some blogger.

Yeah, the faggots who want to be part of a small group they made fun of them for until it was popular and lay claim to it and push the people who actually liked it out are definitely shitters.

That Is who you're talking about and not the people who just liked the thing because it was fun and good, right?

Maybe it's because people watch them to know the value of that Game and decide to Buy that game

it died with the rise of social media along with everything else

Ive never had to do that so why would anyone else?

Because you're able to get an extended look at a video game from the perspective of someone else actually playing it rather than through youtube videos, promotional material the dev/publishers releases or written reviews.
Use your brain.

I always hated livestream and it's watchers until I tried backseating.
It's fun to watch the streamer calling me out for backseating but obeying me anyway because he doesn't know how to fucking play
It's almost like an autistic breakdown

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Wrong. Mobile games killed vidya and popularized gacha. In the next few decades there will only be mobile games.

Seeing this dude makes me physically ill. Fucker reminds me of Gremlins.

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Halo and then CoD were just the natural degradation of the FPS genre
Quake 3 Arena > UT'99 > CS > BF > Halo > CoD
it's everyone's fault

This. Even Blizzard knows normies on smartphones are a cash cow.

That's just the outcome of games becoming popular with normalfags, not the cause.

twitch is simply a symptom of the bigger issue which is an unregulated free market economy but go ahead and cry about the fart slammers or whatever

>more popular than ever
>dead

You forgot to add let's player to the list.

What killed video games is the main demographic becoming middle aged males. Video games used to just be about fun gameplay and nothing else. Now it's about politics, story and waifus.

Vidya died when companies got big enough to be publically attractive to hedge fundies, and controlled by people who never touched, played, or watched a single game in their lives.

Games slowly started turning into shit after 2007.
Very few good games came out after that year.
In fact the world is becoming an unbearable place to live too, faggots are taking over everything.

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What's it like browsing Zig Forums in your 50s?

VG died the moment everyone started calling it "Vidya" fucking pleb word.

So since day one then? Did you know, for example, Activision was originally founded by jaded Atari developers 40 years ago who were sick of the corporate bullshit of Atari? And what is Activision today? The investors have always controlled the video game industry because the investors have always been the people that financed it. The notion that in the past the video game industry was about passion and not money is complete and utter horseshit.