Bombshell Report Finds Players Becoming Less Interested in Deep Strategy Games
Despite our best efforts.
According to a horrifying new report, deep strategy games like those in the Civilization or XCOM franchises are becoming increasingly unappealing to modern gaming audiences. A study from Quantic Foundry collected data using the researcher's gamer motivation profile (GMP) tool over the last nine years and found that, overwhelmingly, players have dramatically changed their tune on strategy games. One possible explanation is that we no longer have the attention spans required to appreciate this once-great genre properly.
A player's GMP is determined by tracking how different aspects of gaming appeal to them across various categories, such as Destruction, Competition, Excitement, Community, Strategy, Challenge, Power, Completion, Fantasy, Discovery, Story, and Design. Since the study began in 2015, scores in each category have remained relatively consistent, with the sole exception being Strategy, which has catastrophically plummeted.
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