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[(Anonymous)]

i also think it's a generational divide

i cannot stand playing games on my phone. the screen is so tiny. it eats up my battery. meanwhile with a controller, pc or console, i have tactile feedback. i can play it on a huge screen

but zoomers love doing stuff on their phones. so many of them grew up with phones and chromebooks they don't know how to use computers. i worked as a pc tech in the past and the amount of zoomers who can't use a file systems competently or can't open a pdf is too damn high. it's wild to me as a millennial sandwiched between them and the boomers that there was this technological bubble where everyone was encouraged to learn how to use an actual computer

gacha is a symptom of the times

it is what it is

[(Anonymous)]

it's not, you've just got a preference and think it's universal when it's not

[(Anonymous)]

okei

[(Anonymous)]

hi. I'm a millennial who is very at home in my computer files (today I rescripted an invisible file in my windows bottle so I could install a newer version of direct x) and plays plenty of games on my ps5. I also play balatro, vampire survivor, capybara go!, mahjong soul and slay the spire on my phone. I used to play Genshin Impact, a very popular gatcha, but I mostly did that on my Playstation, since it's available on desktop computers and consoles. however my mother, in her 60s, really likes playing Genshin on her phone and iPad.

what i'm saying is, above anon is right, you have a preference and are acting like it's true of the entire population of your generation, lmao.

[(Anonymous)]

so you can’t read because they said millennials are competent with computers, it’s the zoomers who struggle

[(Anonymous)]

no, I am saying that I am in the "computer competent millenial" category and yet also enjoy phone games, because I am refuting the idea that "phone games are popular with young people because they don't know how to use a computer, older/tech savvy people play pc games". it's ageist and snobby at the same time.

I agree that people born after 2000 in us/uk/australia/canada have lacked sufficient IT education (evidence is coming out that their reading isn't great either). I think this has absolutely nothing to do with which generation plays what video games and the popularity of phone games.

tbh i would put the gatcha surge down to the fact that smart phones are now an object nearly everybody owns, and microtransaction/gatcha offer the base content free, making phone games accessible to people who wouldn't typically put money towards buying a video game (on steam or wherever) or a console. tapping things on a screen on your smoke break for the number go up serotonin is easy and accessible at any age. in addition investors in asian markets saw this, and sunk a lot of money into startups focused on these kinds of games once it became clear the kind of profit gatcha could generate, which is how you get companies like mihoyo putting out these huge slick "free" rpgs that are, content wise, no worse than a bad final fantasy, but use dangerous psychological tricks to create whales.

[(Anonymous)]

Please stop with the broad generalizations

[(Anonymous)]

Isn't everyone here roughly of the same generation though, all in that 30s to 40s bracket minus a few outliers on either side

[(Anonymous)]

i've come across more than a handful of those in their 20s in the last couple years. tumblr did an exodus for rp along with twitter, so we got the 'new' batch.

[(Anonymous)]

That's a nice story Grandpa

[(Anonymous)]

everyone got real butthurt about your generalization but i agree. i work as a TA in a computer lab and my college is considering adding computer competence courses

that’s why it’s a GENERALIZATION, but everyone here is presenting themselves as the exception as if that invalidates the overall trend

[(Anonymous)]

if you parent up, the conversation was about the rise of gacha popularity in fandom/preference in regards to gaming on phones, not whether or not zoomers have computer literacy

especially since we're having this conversation on dreamwidth, in a subculture that has a shit ton of 30-40 year olds and large gacha casts everywhere you go

[(Anonymous)]

i did parent up

y'all got mad because they said gacha is popular because phones are what the younger generations are familiar with. they then further specified that familiarity by using the lack of (desktop) computer literacy

that's true

you and your grandma and your uncle being the exception doesn't disprove a trend. that's why it's a trend. it's a generalization. but rpanons (and wankgate) suffer from main character syndrome where if some random anon gets 'mischaracterized' they have to come in and tell us how special they are (or their families are) by not being like the others

DA

[(Anonymous)]

anon

i'm going to hold your hand when i say this, because it hurts me too

zoomers are entering their 30s right now

[(Anonymous)]

this is such a funny conversation to read as a non-american

[(Anonymous)]

i'm non-american too and it's a problem here too

so idk it depends

ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

yeah for sure, i agree it's a problem, and i see it here too, i just mean it doesn't follow american generation lines here -- i was born in the mid 90s so i'm right on the cusp of millennials and zoomers, and because i went to uni late most of my classmates right now are kids who are roughly between 20 and 25 (so born in 2000-2005 ish), and it feels like that is more or less the cut-off age here; when i see people who are completely tech illiterate because they're so used to doing everything on their phones, they're usually the younger end of that group, meaning the cut-off here (again, in my experience) is like smack bang in the middle of gen Z. honestly, if anything, it's the lifting of the iron curtain and the consequent increased availability of western tech that feels more relevant to how this has shaken out in my country -- stuff that's not even a blip on the radar of the average american because it doesn't affect them at all. which is genuinely fine, it just made me laugh because it reminded me how different the world can be even for people who can meet and talk in the same place on the internet, if that makes sense

Re: ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

oh okay. i get you now

yeah i grew up in a latin american country and the culture here does trend towards people who know how to use computers because you have to learn how to fix them to get the most out of them. they're expensive, we can't readily buy computers whenever something goes wrong as easily as your average american. my first repair was swapping out a hard drive

that's how i got my start in computers, pirating shit via napster, using winamp, cracks of programs like photoshop and 3ds max, downloading roms for snes games, upgrading and repairing

SA

[(Anonymous)]

sorry i should specify the culture of my age bracket. i was born in 89, so i was in my early teens when computers became affordable to the middle class in my country. i remember tearing that compaq apart one weekend because i wanted to see how it works, manual on hand

[(Anonymous)]

my personal observation is gachas actually boomed more due to being more accessible in multiple platforms and less because they were on phone. Sure, there were popular gachas before that are mobile only (Touken Ranbu, Fate/ GO, Project Sekai, etc) but the kind of inescapable popularity it has now feels more like because you can play a lot of them at minimum on PC or mobile which adds flexibility, or certain consoles like the PS5.

Less generational divide and more accessibility divide. Sure I can play a lot of video games on different consoles, but it doesn't always load the save file from a cloud where I can continue on whenever I want, which many of my friends like about Genshin for instance.

[(Anonymous)]

PC and mobile* not or