Gaming isn’t cheap hobby (pic: Sony)
The reader is concerned about the energy and cost of living crisis, but admits there might be other reasons to sell his console.
Every time I turn on the television or take a look at the news site, it looks like it’s getting worse. Before the disaster came to an end, after the pound was against the dollar, and now the money budget will make everything even worse. I’m not a rich person, but I wouldn’t have said that I was poor either. And yet, over the past few months, I have quite started to worry about my finances and what exactly I’m spending my money on.
Im certain that I won’t be alone in that. All of the countries and the world, families are in the same position and are forced to face the same situation as they are, but politicians only do nothing and also make things worse. The only attempts to help are patronising websites allowing you to not have the heat or take a faster shower, as if that were just to change.
Clearly, there’s not any way I think of that and I realized that I could use my money in the pocket and I had decided to sell my PlayStation. Because of the energy cost, though it’s a factor, but because the games cost too much money (and I can afford to buy that console at some cost).
There’s no excuse for the cost of living situation, I guess. That’s the reason I decided to do it, but when I thought about the decision, I realized that it was easier than I thought that and that I would never enjoy videogames. I don’t know I would’ve sold the PlayStation 5 without that being the catalyst, but now it happens, I feel almost relieved?
I started to realize that there was a problem before, that I couldn’t get into the space of Elden Ring, despite being in the previous dark souls games. There were two problems, the first being how long I’d let the game win and the second being that it was all so familiar, although it’s technically a brand new franchise.
I’ve found this same problem recently with so many games (Elden Ring probably didn’t help itself with me because I bought and played Demons Souls at the time), where everything began to seem predictable and repetitive. That doesn’t mean the games are bad, but things like Horizon Forbidden West and Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart made nothing impression of me, simply because it looked very familiar to me.
I know that there’s a lack of indie games, but even now, those very imaginative games are lost in this sea of rogue likes and metrodivanias. In my experience, indie games are only as innovative as AAA games, they are just repetitive with different things.
I don’t want to get someone down, because I still feel like playing, and still like reading about the industry and its game, even if the thought that everything was owned by three different companies just adds to the feeling of decline and homogenisation.
Perhaps I would buy a new console if it were a little fun to see what I had lost. At this moment, I feel strangely liberating from using a game machine.
In this difficult times I’m not spending 70 on a video game. But because interest rates do increase next year, I don’t want to choose between paying the mortgage and playing next of the war gods.
Westley, reader.
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