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Originally Posted by DownInFlames
Games have to compete with virtually unlimited tv, movies, music, books, podcasts, and internet for my free time. There’s no such thing as being bored as long as I have any number of devices handy.
And I used to have to save up to buy games so I made sure to squeeze as much out of them as I could. Now I have literally hundreds of games in my steam library I’ve never played. As a result they’re less special.
I still play fairly often but I regularly listen to music or podcasts at the same time.
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This would be an interesting discussion I think. How much has the accessibility to constant stimulation removed our desire to do things we used to enjoy?