As technology advances, there is a greater effort for facilitating your existence, This has resulted in get used to the immediacy. Have you noticed that video games are getting easier and easier?.
All you are bored by anything too complicated or impractical and you prefer the simplest way out, The faster you solve one challenge, the faster you can go for another.
The opposite was true in previous decades, where the technological limitations resulted in the following video games with little accompaniment to the user, for example: You could not save games and while the game was in progress no one was telling you what you had to do to pass to the next level.
At that time the main objective of the companies that create video games was the prolonged stay of the user, The idea was that the longer it would take you to move from one level to the next, the longer you would have to play and the more time you would have to spend in the game. the more satisfaction you will receive when you reach the finish line.
What they were The only thing we noticed as time went by was that frustration rather than satisfaction was achieved, and new generations of gamers were abandoning video games before they could finish them.
In such a way that the player's work by giving more importance to the plot. or story that unfolds in the videogame than to the levels of difficulty.
Reasons why video games have lost difficulty
1. Frustration for not being able to advance in the video game.
Failure to complete a level and to be punished by having to start from the beginning, and that this happens very often, it really angry. From so many failures you choose to give up because you think you need a less complicated game.
2. Priority on the plot of the game rather than the levels.
The developers want you feel as if you were participating in a movie., where, in the end, the protagonist will always have the victory. That is why we have given more importance to the story than to the difficulty of the video game., showing you that you can enjoy the theme without the anxiety of an inaccessible challenge.
3. Increase the number of players.
As they are added the new generations of gamers, In the last few years, an increase in the number of casual video gamers, who are not committed to video games and prefer simple rules, without the need to spend a lot of time to pass a level.. The developers have bet on getting the attention of casual players and get in this way a significant increase in the number of users.
Dissatisfaction of older generations of gamers
The old school players reclame the decline in the difficulty of video games. Those who were accustomed to the almost unattainable challenges express their dissatisfaction. requesting games with increasing degrees of difficulty and challenge the player to use their ingenuity and creativity to pass to the next level.
While some people get bored of difficult games, others reproach the simplicity, Which one do you prefer?
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