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Re:John Carmack goes off about online-only games being aband... by thomastjeffery on Sunday February 12, 2023 @06:34PM (#34768374)
Tinkering gamers aren't the audience anymore.

More importantly, their audience isn't the audience anymore.

After all, it was never a hugely significant number of tinkerers that were important, it was the audience each tinkerer brought with them.

That just isn't the business model anymore.

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Re:John Carmack goes off about online-only games being aband... by vladvasiliu on Monday February 13, 2023 @01:32AM (#34770770)
> it was the audience each tinkerer brought with them.

Could it be that said audience depended on the tinkerers to help with settings things up, but since games "just work" now, the middleman has been cut?

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Re:John Carmack goes off about online-only games being aband... by thefz on Monday February 13, 2023 @02:01AM (#34770900)
> Tinkering gamers aren't the audience anymore.

With gaming becoming popular I'd say tinkering gamers are the same number as before, just not the same proportion of the overall gamers pool.

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Re:John Carmack goes off about online-only games being aband... by antifa on Monday February 13, 2023 @10:41PM (#34784980)
I think tinkerable games causes tinkerers.
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