>>39120776Gaming has been slowly dying since the PS2 era. You just didn't notice it yet because the first stages of a terminal disease are always very subtle. People only really started noticing it when things like always-online and microtransactions started popping up though.
The really sick thing is that thanks to the increased popularity of gaming you'll have a large proportion of people who simply don't realize that it didn't always used to be like this, and they'll defend their shitty hobby to their dying breath because it's all they know.
