>>32877188>be lazy streamer>go viral>get numbers>get hired for a job>job description is literally talking and playing video games>hate it because you have to put in minor effort>completely ungrateful for the money it brings in>want the money, but also to be a lazy cunt who doesn't earn itIluna shows what happens when you numberfag without the memes. Gura is right to have imposter syndrome. Without vitality, all you have is someone who just wants to crack one open and phone it in.
>>32877322What's a tually hurting single player games is
>lack of time as a result of economic declinePeople aren't doing as well financially, and sitting around wasting time playing single player games isn't very appealing. It also gets shit numbers on stream.
>lonelinessMulti-player games are more engaging because you're actually part of a community you can play games with. That trumps sitting in a dark room playing games alone.
>microtransations>wokeness>making games with plots, aesthetics and thematic elements that appeal to womenThe industry's unfettered greed has fucked itself over, as is the usual outcome for completely shortsighted thinking. Men don't like microtransactions, virtue signaling, or what women like, and men were usually the autists grinding out single player games. By abandoning the male market (UUUUUOOOOOOHHHH PANDERING TO WOMEN MAKE NUMBER GO U- WAIT WHY ISN'T NUMBER GOING UP ANYMORE REEEEEEEEEEEEEE), they've shifted gaming towards being much more social. That means multi-player games.
Streamers wind up just being a scapegoat for economic trends resulting from their own neoliberal pursuit of profit at all costs. One of those costs is the abandonment of single-player games' core demo, and numbers will go down accordingly. This is the problem with scaling. Once an enterprise grows so big that the people making decisions are completely out of touch with their customers, the products they produce wind up being shit for reasons they can't understand. And then, because they feel like they did everything right so it couldn't possibly be their fault, they blame customers for not knowing what they should like or want.
This is the limousine liberal tendency to complain that voters vote against their own interests, as well as streamers resenting their chat for not giving them a rubber stamp to do what they want. It never occurs to them that they're WRONG, and are simply buffoonish, out of touch narcissists failing to properly read the market and provide what people are demanding. Supply exists to address demand, not the other way around. This is why enterprising individuals are introspective and adaptable, as they understand that markets change and you can't simply rely on what worked yesterday to continue working today or tomorrow.
tldr If your once successful business fails, it's probably your fault.
